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erik @praxisandalli.es · 30/09/2026

I won't be finishing another book tomorrow so here's an early #storygraph wrap-up. My favorite this month was Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the short stories in Gaza Writes Back were another big highlight #booksky

A collage of book covers including:
Making the Liberal Media by A.J. Bauer
A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us by Peter Gelderloos
Doppelganger by Dasa Drndic
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere
Gaza Writes Back (edited) by Refaat Alareer
Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Bargouhti (translated by Ahdaf Soueif)

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/09/2026

August's #storygraph wrap-up. Crowley's Little, Big might be the single best book I've ever read in my entire life. RIP to an absolute master. On the other side of things, Reamde is the worst Stephenson book I've ever read and as it stands it's in the running for worst book this year #booksky

A collage of book covers including:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The People of the Abyss by Jack London
Sand by Hugh Howey
Across the Sand by Hugh Howey
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet
Little, Big by John Crowley
Leila Khaled - Icon of Palestinian Liberation by Sarah Irving
Reamde by Neal Stephenson

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 27/08/2026

So all of those references to "unleavened bread" in Exodus should be changed to "cracker"? That participants at Seder share the "cracker of affliction"?

... He talked about, right after he won the primary, he talked about breaking bread with Jews at Passover. And I was like, "Okay, that sentence alone" —and, for people who are listeners that don't know, we don't eat bread on Passover, very intentionally so. It's actually a big part of our ceremony.

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 26/08/2026

France: we're fancy France: you could enjoy a luxurious stay at "the large hotel"

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 09/08/2026

@aselrod.bsky.social is less in the trash can and more in one of those rollaway dumpsters here

A picture of Slavoj Zizek with the quote:

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/08/2026

July's #storygraph wrap-up. Mistaken Identity and Health Communism were difficult, theory dense reads but very rewarding. Discounting the Future was slow going but comprehensible. #booksky

A collage of book covers including:
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Overseer Class by Steven W. Thrasher
The Prince & the Coyote by David Bowles
Mistaken Identity by Asad Haider
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Discounting the Future by Liliana Dogonova
Comrades Estranged by Alex Boodrookas
Health Communism by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen by Yuta Takahashi (translated by Cat Anderson)

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/07/2026

June's reading wrap-up from #storygraph. I found the the three post apocalyptic novels on @joachimboaz.bsky.social 's blog so thanks for that! #booksky

A collection of book covers including:
How to Sell a Genocide by Adam H Johnson
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Feminism Interrupted by Lola Olufemi
Termush by Sven Holm
Hospital Ship by Martin Bax
The Death of Grass by John Christopher
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dosteyevski

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/06/2026

May's #storygraph wrap-up. I liked Mcteague way more than I expected, and found Patience and Sarah entirely wholesome. #booksky

A collage of book covers including:

Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Terms of Servitude
Mcteague
Cat's Cradle
Patience and Sarah
Palm Oil
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
War & War
Blood's a Rover

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/05/2026

Absolutely loved God's Bits of Wood, it was like an anti colonial Germinal with modernist characteristics #storygraph #booksky

A book cover collage featuring:
The Case for Open Borders by John Washington
On the Edge of Reason by Microsoft Krleza
The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Sacred Night by Tahar Ben Jelloun
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 17/04/2026

Banger five star opening from God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene #booksky

DEDICATION

For You, GOD'S BITS OF WOOD,
and for my comrades in the unions.

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/04/2026

March #storygraph wrap up. My favorites were Invisible Man and Under the Yoke but also Automatic Noodle was tremendously fun #booksky

A collage of book covers including:

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Chronicle in Stone by Ismail Kadare
Unbuild Walls by Silky Shah
Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 20/03/2026

Pretty happy with how this ham hock stock came out tbqh

Two one-quart mason jars filled with a pale beige liquid

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 03/03/2026

Even worse, I mean Albanian

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 03/03/2026

That time the world of Albanian literature was almost rent asunder due to the "Pipi-Kaka Affair" #booksky

Kadare was horrified when he heard that Pipa planned to assert that /Chronicle in Stone/ contained a coded message about the sexual preference of the country's Guide. He honestly thought that Pipa wanted to get him arrested and shot. A long drawn-out polemic ensued, with attack bringing counterattack, until the whole murky business became known as the "Pipi-Kaka Affair." It is no longer remotely dangerous to mention the probable sexual proclivities of a long-dead Stalinist — but it also now seems crazy to believe that this fine and complex novel contains any coded message on the subject.

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 28/02/2026

Since I'm not gonna finish Invisible Man before midnight tonight, here's February's list of read books (Black History month edition). Angela Davis's autobiography (edited by Toni Morrison) is a must read #storygraph #booksky

A collage of book covers including
N.K Jemison: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky
Toni Morrison: Beloved, Jazz, Paradise
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
James Baldwin: Go Tell it on the Mountain
Cheikh Anta Babou: Fighting the Greater Jihad

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 26/02/2026

DARE was just the thin end of the wedge

Two anti-drug posters, one of a farmer and one of a high school football team proudly proclaiming: Meth. We're on it.

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/02/2026

Completed the #januarypageschallenge on @thestorygraph.com Germinal was probably my favorite of the bunch but they were all great except Lies, Inc which maybe should've just remained The Unteleported Man

A collage of book covers including: "America, América", "My Pen is the Wing of a Bird", "Germinal", "Moby Dick", "Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean", "Notes from the Underground", "Now Wait for Last Year" and "Lies, Inc."

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 06/01/2026

"Look these people are refugees fleeing violence and destitution" -me self righteously explaining to my wife why there's a $600 charge to OnlyFans on our credit card statement

A FT headline: Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US artist visas

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/01/2026

Not a lot of books last month but every one an absolute banger #storygraph #booksky

A wrap-up of books read this month: Wuthering Heights, No Neutrals There, The Melancholy of Resistance, Uprooted, and House of Leaves

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 14/12/2025

I tried using puttanesca as a pizza sauce and it's pretty good 7.5/10

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 13/12/2025

Tonight at 9:30 PM EST we'll be streaming Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three starring James Cagney in a zany East meets West Child War comedy. Exclusively on @jdbunchanumbers.bsky.social discord ask him for an invite

Billy Wilder sits atop a tall step ladder holding three drawn in balloons in an advertisement for One, Two, Three

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 03/12/2025

November's wrap-up. Fever Dream was great #booksky #storygraph

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 22/10/2025

It's actually awesome how these capital flows have an uncanny resemblance to the motions of a carnival shell game

A diagram demonstrating how capital flows between six AI companies

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 23/09/2025

@jdbunchanumbers.bsky.social I'm sure they'll order more copies but the current waitlist for the Genesee District Library is somewhere between 6 months and 2 years