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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And dialogue aside, man is one of *the* undersung prose stylists of the 20th century

TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

74. Carpenter's Gothic / William Gaddis It's got nothing on the Recognitions or JR ,and the bite of its misanthropy is largely defanged by the 80s being a less advanced awful than today - but it's Gaddis, and there's no one like him. I don't get how he uses dialogue as pure velocity, it's magic

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

73. The Melancholy of Resistance / Laszlo Krazanhorkai Something happens to time when reading this one, it's like treacle. Fucked up European village, everyone's a lunatic or a bastard, there's a whale, etc. A dozen pages at a time dedicated to a thought that flickers into crisis into etc. 💯

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

72. Strange Hotel / Eimear McBride Failed to read two years ago, before I knew McBride was the kind of author each of whose books teaches you to hear the voice of the next. And, there now, I recognise in the rhythm of this one the displacements of age that I am just beginning to register in myself

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just saw in 35mm for the first time since I became a woman whose inescapably strong feelings have made her go psychotic before and Kidman in this is a lot of what I would think can't exist in film. All in the behind the eyes, the shaking of it apart but, of course, keeping it together. Delightful!

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

71. Which As You Know Means Violence / Philippa Snow The sheer excitement of discovering this book exists carried me through the read, but unfortunately as a collection of essays it's pretty limp + redundant. Little you couldn't unravel yrself in an afternoon of spelunking on Wikipedia

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went to the vampire goth music play party w the Russian domme saw over the course of the night a roving group of beautiful succubuses use random men as chairs & footstools whilst we chatted shortly getting as many needles as possible put in me balance has been restored

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How the fuck is this real why does the world continue to radiate such delight and surprise and beauty every time I ready to myself to let go and loosen my grasp and slam myself apart at the cliffbase something like this comes along Jeff Mills / Buster Keston never killyourself

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

70. The Disappearers / Marlon James Not nearly as formally innovative as has been made out, but this is mostly because it sets its form to sucker punching you w the agony it thinks you deserve to feel. Anger as an end to itself, and knowing the leading edge of that rage made it an excruciating read

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rare book find of the week btw was getting to see the so-called 'Wicked Bible' of 1631, released w a misprint (see line 14 (lmao)) that landed its printer in debtor's jail

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Spending about 1/6 of all the money I own to get a haircut w the stylist who feeds me community gossip >>>

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They invented a film where the guy who made Irma Vep and Demon Lover and Personal Shopper has Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche hang out on together in every scene never kill yourself

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

69. Close to the Knives / David Wojnarowicz Actually too painful to render or critically reconstruct post facto - if you are queer + believe in the urgency of life through yr queerness you need to read this

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

68. A Balthus Notebook / Guy Davenport I mean to be clear you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Balthus. But if you did, and if I was going to read it, it would be by Guy Davenport

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

67. Worsted / Garielle Lutz Up there w Schutt as the most talented sentence writer working today - every single one is like a distinct and differently formed little bug crawling away from yr eye as it roves the page. So, so, so weird

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

66. Girlfriends, Ghosts & Other Stories / Robert Walser Sometimes, you go on a walk :)

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

65. Wrong / Dennis Cooper Largely offcuts & experiments around the Myles cycle, & I think Cooper's fascinations suffer w/out the accompanying emotional reservoir those novels build a dam around

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

64. Jazz / Toni Morrison A novel whose biggest weakness is its impossibility of ever quite living up to its (perfect) opening page. Unsure it ever quite succeeds in its experiment w its first person narratorial overseer, but, then again, that voice knows it can never measure up to the people inside

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

63. The Bluest Eye / Toni Morrison Morrison's first novel, and about as close to the bone as you can get. Cruelty is everywhere, but her gaze never treats it w anything but curiosity; judgement and sorrow are correct, but they are easy, and do little to untangle the world from what it is

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's perfect, everyone play this and learn how to be a girl detective

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What if they invented a film screening that was 14hrs long

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Never piss off a fag like Gary Indiana he will write multiple novels featuring thinly veiled character assassinations of you and conduct interviews w yr biographer years after yr death to discuss what a massive bitch you were www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/gary...

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I love the movies. I love the movies so fucking much

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Doujin of the year just dropped (it's brilliant / get yrself a copy asap / should be on sale at the common press soon)

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

62. The End of the Story / Lydia Davis So brilliantly renders the near-psychotic uncertainty and projection and rebound of a passionate relationship drying at the source and evaporating from your life and reshaping everything in its wake that I was only able really to read it in relation to myself

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Claire Denis is a genuine eccentric I love her so fucking much

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

61. A Horse at Night: On Writing / Amina Cain A book on writing that has actually helped me to write, who knew such a thing was possible

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

60. Ice / Anna Kavan In the bio at the front it says that Kavan got addicted to heroin because her tennis coach said it would 'improve her game' and I really feel like this is the kind of book that someone who got hooked on dope by their tennis coach could have written (positive)

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

59. Allegory and Ideology / Fredric Jameson Fredric idk about this one I thought you were burying the lede but I don't think either of us understand what allegory really is

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

58. Last Evenings on Earth / Roberto Bolano Very difficult to grasp what connects each event or sentence to another in these short stories, but it is the action of the connection, or the blunt/violent disarray of the characters' confusion at it, that drives them forwards. Will read more

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

soundcloud.com/spindrift0/s... industrial techno :) power noise :)

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

57. The Future In Our Past / Callum Cant & Matthew Lee Book club read, interesting + informative but has that classic leftist book issue of trying to rise up against its own driness + intertness. Suffered read so soon after Berger's A Seventh Man, which threads that needle better in every way

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

56. 10:04 / Ben Lerner Lerner continues to do his thing, pushed even harder to the edge of reflexive self-regard. Something about this one didn't quite come together for me, but it still fees like a gambit elegantly and sincerely played, and it's impossible not to be excited by what his voice does

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The way this is one of the best books ever written. Like

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TincturedCanoid @stellarinvolute.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This dude just put his head between his legs and screamed lmao

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