Reposted by Matthew SullivanNick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 10h#booksky #books 6875 Penguin 4076 Silence / James Kennaway (1977) interesting writer, died young & suddenly and this was his last posthumous publication, a novella of great power framed in racial hostilities of its time where the transgressive compassion of a black woman for a white man is punished 051
Reposted by Matthew SullivanNick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 15h#booksky #books 6867 Penguin 4097 A Scandalous Woman / Edna O'Brien (1976) short stories on the intersection of Irishness and womanhood with a censored cover to beat the algorithm's puritanism showing the limits to progress that are appropriately central to O'Brien's wry & well-realised observations 041
Reposted by Matthew SullivanNick M @plodinnotts.bsky.social · 14h#booksky #books 6868 Penguin 4098 Winter Kills / Richard Condon (1976) alternate take on the Kennedy assassination with a fictional killing about the same time reinvestigated in the early 70's going deep into the fetid swamps of American politics because the current vileness didn't come from nowhere 061
Reposted by Matthew SullivanColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 12hThe BBC bought the front cover of the NME for the week ending Feb 25th 1966 to advertise its showing The Beatles’ 1965 gig at Shea Stadium. Many of the music press covers with adverts in the period look hilariously dated, but this is very, very good! It really brings out the scale of the event. 1184
Reposted by Matthew SullivanSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9hIt's Friday night. I'm reading about the Rwandan genocide. My wife is reading about Sylvia Plath's suicide. We sure know how to kick back and relax. 2744010
Reposted by Matthew SullivanLady D @ladydisdain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Schmitt gets dragged by the local paper, which compares his performance to "an especially cringey episode" of HBO's "Veep." Source: Raw Story share.google/qoZ8Hp79IshL...share.google'Sloppy' GOP Sen. Schmitt pilloried by home state paper over 'cringey' public humiliation 054
Reposted by Matthew SullivanJill Wine-Banks @jillwine-banks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Yesterday Jack Smith was the target. Today the #wsj reports it’s me and my #Watergate colleagues from 50 years ago. Hope I behave as admirably as Smith if I’m subpoenaed. 1126645
Reposted by Matthew SullivanAndrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 18hI really rate J. Lee Thompson’s revisionist 1958 war film, ICE COLD IN ALEX, so was very happy to contribute the booklet essay to this new @vinsyn.bsky.social release of it. Pre-orders at the link below. vinegarsyndrome.com/products/ice... 0176
Reposted by Matthew SullivanAndrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 18hAnd with wonderful cover art by the late and much missed Tony Stella 1144
Reposted by Matthew SullivanSpectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social · 3hThe Go-Betweens get reissued!spectrumculture.comThe Go-Betweens: Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express/Tallulah/16 Lovers Lane - Spectrum CultureThe Go-Betweens’ generosity in uninhibited truth, devoid of irony and filter, returns at the perfect time for younger fans of their sound and era to backfill their catalogs. 032
Reposted by Matthew SullivanJames Graham @jamesgraham.theliberati.net · 3hCan someone explain to me why Americans keep farting on about someone not knowing the difference between “hawk” and “Hawkeye”? Is this something to do with Buck Rogers and M*A*S*H? 122
Reposted by Matthew SullivanJohn Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 3hIt was "Deadeye Dick." The premise was so absurd I had to buy it. Good God, that set off a chain of events. 021
Reposted by Matthew SullivanJohn Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social · 4hI am so glad I purchased a Kurt Vonnegut book when I was 16 years old. 12811
Reposted by Matthew SullivanBrittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Something anecdotal that makes me think the recent museum closures we’re seeing is a symptom of a wider cultural attitude towards science: Two of the most frequent questions I now get from kids on field trips are “what’s that fossil worth”/“do you make a lot of money?” 12611
Reposted by Matthew SullivanSarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 16hTHREAD about WRESTLERS and ARCHIVES!!! 3135
Reposted by Matthew SullivanClassic Movies Today @classicfilms.app · 01/10/202655 years ago: Play Misty for Me (US) A brief fling between a late-night radio disc jockey and an obsessed... 1971-10-01 #ClassicMovies #ClintEastwood #ClintEastwood #JessicaWalter #DonnaMills www.themoviedb.org/movie/15393 072
Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 01/10/2026‘Oh Lana Turner We Love You Get U’ name of my acoustic covers record in the voice of Kermit the Frog 200
Reposted by Matthew SullivanAndrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My preferred nun with a gun. 121
Reposted by Matthew SullivanLaura Bee, Trench Wench @writerlaurabee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1: Kiss, kissing or kissed in the title "It's In His Kiss" - Merry Clayton (uncharted 1963) The 1st recorded version of "The Shoop Shoop Song" six years before she duetted with Mick on "Gimme Shelter." Sing it, Queen! youtu.be/iGjXWzTxti4?...youtu.be1st RECORDING OF: The Shoop Shoop Song (as 'It’s In His Kiss') - Merry Clayton (1963)YouTube video by The45Prof 0133
Reposted by Matthew SullivanJohn Featherstone @johnfeath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you've just listened to In Our Time discussing #Casablanca (1942) on BBC Radio 4 and want to know what the cast and crew did next, here's my take on its unfairly-maligned follow-up.latereviewer.comSailing Into The Danger Zone – Passage To Marseille (1944)A Special Feature by John Featherstone. “I want to reach the danger zone by nightfall…” 044
Reposted by Matthew SullivanTim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Baker Street Boys - Children's BBC Sherlock Holmes Expanded Universe gambit affording his over-hatted urchin associates from the original Conan Doyle their own series of Lestrade-exasperating smuggling and burglary-trouncing cases to deal with. timworthington.org/2017/11/05/l... 151
Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look at this, ya mention nuns with guns the once & suddenly the TL is full of sisters with shooters. @pulpcurry.bsky.social 111
Reposted by Matthew SullivanThe Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Released 44 years ago today I saw her standin' on her front lawn Just a-twirlin' her baton Me and her went for a ride, sir And ten innocent people diedyoutube.comBruce Springsteen - Nebraska (1982)YouTube video by Thergothon1 2162
Reposted by Matthew SullivanPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you recognize the subway hijacker’s sneeze. 841981162
Reposted by Matthew SullivanClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school 74180901
Reposted by Matthew SullivanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 153163915524
Reposted by Matthew SullivanZeb Cyrus 🎃👻🙀 @zbcy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Babel-17 (1966) by Samuel R. Delany A classic human alien first contact tale. To avert disaster they must turn to a polyglot linguist or else! #booksky #scifisky 1497
Reposted by Matthew SullivanEdward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The cast members of the iconic TV sitcom Taxi (1978-1983). 3508
Reposted by Matthew SullivanTom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Wicker Man Don’t Look Now The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp Get Carter Kind Hearts & Coronets 5694
Reposted by Matthew Sullivantamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ta-Nehisi Coates said toughness is vital for writers. “To not get knocked out. You need to be able to take brutal critique and tolerate awful people. But more than that, you need the physical courage to look at a blank screen, and write… courage to confront your own awfulness.” 0102
Reposted by Matthew Sullivantamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In 1986, James Baldwin delivered an address at the Issyk-Kul Forum in the Central Asian Soviet Republic of Kirghizia. His handwritten notes of his lecture include the phrases “absence of Africa in the historical record” and “the necessity of envisioning a world without nations.” 072
Reposted by Matthew SullivanTom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When you're in halls of residence together at uni & decide to share a house in the second year 17010
Reposted by Matthew SullivanLary Crews © @larycrews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026McQueen plays a San Francisco cop assigned as bodyguard to a syndicate witness. The witness gets shot by two hitmen. Robert Vaughn is the politician who puts the heat on, and it’s up to McQueen to hide the victim’s body until he can untangle the case. 107113
Reposted by Matthew SullivanChapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A small stack with a great deal of Irish publishing history inside it has arrived in Secondhand! Founded in Dublin in 1976, Poolbeg began by publishing Irish short stories & later helped launch the careers of Maeve Binchy, Patricia Scanlan, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Sheila O’Flanagan & many others 031
Reposted by Matthew SullivanChapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Cait and Baba are in Secondhand, complete with youthful hopes, complicated men & the epilogue. This Penguin copy of Edna O’Brien’s Country Girls trilogy has a beautifully worn cover, it is, as it should be, well read. If you haven't met them yet, introduce youself! 031
Reposted by Matthew SullivanEris Loves #DeadTeenagerMovie 🎃📚👻 @erislovesmovies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026KATHARINE WHITEHORN!!!!!!!! 162
Reposted by Matthew SullivanMitch @mitchellpowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Maybe not perfectly relevant, but the song Johnny Come Home absolutely percolates, and is itself an alienated, bleak, noirish text. And danceable. youtu.be/2yvWl8EcLmo?...youtu.beFine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home (Official HD Video)YouTube video by London Records 132
Reposted by Matthew SullivanAndrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Has anyone read this 1975 Congo set mercenary novel and, if so, what are your thoughts? Methinks major Wilbur Smith DARK OF THE SUN vibes. 263
Reposted by Matthew SullivanAndrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026See this if you can. Stunning piece of WWII POW cinema. Is on my @letterboxd.social list of war is noir films boxd.it/v8kuQboxd.itWar is noirWar is always hell but sometimes it is also noir 173
Reposted by Matthew SullivanMartin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The camera and flash responsible for this Pulitzer Prize winning photo. Part of a fantastic new journalism exhibit at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza 0197
Reposted by Matthew Sullivan🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What this leaves out is that they are (we believe) planning to film the whole Le Carré sequence. 153
