Reposted by Jim Hanas3 Quarks Daily @3quarksdaily.bsky.social · 01/10/20263QD ORIGINAL By Jim Hanas (@www.loureedsnephew.com)3quarksdaily.comRemembrance of Things Post-I met Derrida in Memphis in 1993. We were standing by a pool and he was smoking a cigar. I’m sure I was smoking a cigarette. I was twenty-four. The encounter was brief, the pro for 001
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 18/08/2026My path to phenomenology, via a review of Michael Pollan's A World Appears. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/what-is-it...loureedsnephew.comWhat Is It Like to Be a Phenomenologist?An interested review of Michael Pollan’s A World Appears. 041
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 17/08/2026Hegel, Dostoevsky, and The Fall. Last week I brought Hilobrow up to date on my steady diet of negation. www.hilobrow.com/2026/08/14/j... 0121
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 06/08/2026I heard from an old friend this week.loureedsnephew.comS2E4. A Call from Lou Reed’s Nephew“Do you know how a turbocharged engine works?” 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 05/08/2026Excited to rep this gem in @marchxness.bsky.social later this year. 062
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 16/06/2026Thoughts on listmaking, plus my Daemon list--40 pieces of writing I think about all the time.loureedsnephew.comThe Order(ing) of ThingsThoughts on listmaking—and a list of my own. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 05/06/2026“I decided to use the strategy de Gaulle used to calm the unrest of May ‘68. I vanished briefly to interupt the tide of events, then returned and retook control of the situation.” — Jalen Brunson after Game 1 (in my dreams) 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 22/05/2026When Allium, the lit journal at Columbia College Chicago, asked me to contribute to their "series of imaginary films by visonary writers" I knew the time to pitch the first installment in my ‘pataTweens Animated Trilogy had come. allium.colum.edu/new-work-1/i... 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 15/05/2026I wrote about one of my favorite books -- Mount Analogue by René Daumal -- this month for 3 Quarks Daily. I think I did a decent job explaining what I see in it.3quarksdaily.comRené Daumal’s Sermon on the Mount - 3 Quarks Dailyby Jim HanasA wag on Substack recently noted that there are apparently only four ideas: the angel of history, the eternal return, will to power, and one I 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 06/05/2026What would happen if the NYT put out a list of the “Top 100 something or other” and everyone said, “Seems right. No notes.” Would the editor be fired? 010
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 05/05/2026The saga continues. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/s2e3-lou-r... 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 29/04/2026In the news. (Broadly construed.)publishersweekly.comFormer HarperCollins Exec Debuts Small Press Sales DashboardSmall Press Insights, launched by Jim Hanas earlier this month, is a free tool tracking roughly 900 indie and university presses against Amazon rankings, the Independent Publishers Caucus’s Top 40, an... 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 28/04/2026I went to see what is likely Wallace Shawn and André Gregory’s final collaboration. open.substack.com/pub/loureeds... 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 21/04/2026Today I launched website where you can see which small press titles are selling at Amazon and what titles are forthcoming.loureedsnephew.comThe Small Press ViewAnother way of looking at book publishing. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 14/04/2026Further notes on savvy bumpkinism and sugrophobia, the “fear of being a sucker.”loureedsnephew.comYour Fellow Americans: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know?Savvy bumpkinism revisited. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 08/04/2026After writing about the Oracle of Bacon, I decided to look at the network graph for literary Substack. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/visualizin... 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 31/03/2026I would like to see more anthropomorphization of people. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 31/03/2026I just found out L.R.N. is writing his own book. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/s2e2-lou-r... 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 17/03/2026Today in my newsletter. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/the-oracle... 062
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 12/03/2026Not even Piranha II: The Spawning.loureedsnephew.comI Have Never Seen a James Cameron MovieAn annual Oscar night performance. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 03/03/2026How I accidentally became a collagist.loureedsnephew.comLou Reed's Nephew: The CollagesHow they came to be. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 20/02/2026The Internet has a history. I wrote about The Oracle of Bacon and the discovery of small-world networks for my first monthly column at 3 Quarks Daily. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...3quarksdaily.comThe Oracle of Bacon: Thirty Years Later - 3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Hanas 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 17/02/2026Hey all. You can download my out-of-print story collection, Why They Cried, free for a limited time. claims.prolificworks.com/free/VbP25Wp1claims.prolificworks.comWhy They CriedClaim a free copy of Why They Cried 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 03/02/2026Look who I ran into at outplacement this week.loureedsnephew.comS2E1: The Return of Lou Reed's Nephew HimselfThe Season 2 premiere. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 21/01/2026Have you watched Mussolini: Son of the Century yet? You probably should. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/mussolini-...loureedsnephew.comMussolini: Snub of the Century?An urgent review. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 06/01/2026I will be ramping up cultural production in 2026. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/new-year-n...loureedsnephew.comNew Year, New Lou"That’s right, I’m planning to 4X this thing!" 020
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 18/12/2025The NYT's latest take on Gen X made me wonder what happened to my half of it, so I tried to sort it. www.loureedsnephew.com/p/generation... 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 09/12/2025Herr Professor Marcuse Had all the brains he could use. He thought power’s last play Was allowing enjoyment all day, But that pleasure was just more abuse. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 08/12/2025Playground Existentialism. You have no ball and you can never go home. 010
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 08/12/2025So is today the day we all break character and let Graydon Carter know this Nuzzi/Lizza thing was just his surprise going away present? Good job, everyone. 000
Reposted by Jim HanasElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I am trying to manifest a Hal Hartley revival with @loureedsnephew.bsky.social www.themediumcool.com/p/trust-in-h...themediumcool.comTRUST IN HAL HARTLEYWith a new movie out is it finally time for Gen X's most indie filmmaker? 66711
Reposted by Jim HanasOliver Arditi @paracyclops.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Around 2011 @jamesbeaudreau.bsky.social sent me three CDs. Beautiful artefacts from which came lasting friendship. He recently released a solo guitar record, & it's a thing of strange, true beauty. Old reviews: olidabass.blogspot.com/2011/03/albu... jamesbeaudreau.bandcamp.com/album/workbe...jamesbeaudreau.bandcamp.comWorkbench Recordings Vol. 1, by James Beaudreau7 track album 154
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 25/02/2025Cool. This hotel has a chamber where I can leave my body while my parasitic clone does all my work. Or maybe it's just a shower. 020
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 01/01/2025The fact that there is a Supercuts and a Great Clips sounds like something out of Evelyn Waugh. 100
Reposted by Jim HanasChris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Can all of Blue Sky read and discuss this? Written in 1964 but incredibly relevant for understanding the moment, I think. 062
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 30/12/2024People posting memes about Jimmy reuniting with Rosalynn in heaven should think about how Gilda Radner would feel about that. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 25/12/2024Christmas confession. Growing up I thought the series "Family Affair" was dubbed from another language. I had no idea what going on on that show. Anyone else? 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 17/12/2024I see that White Lotus has detected my non-compliance and has activated Parker Posey. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 06/12/2024Prediction: Future historians will tie collapse of our civilization to the fact that we could not move from "one letter to the editor = 100 people" rule of thumb to "1MM comments = 0 people" rule of thumb. 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 29/11/2024And what was the best case if that play had worked? 110
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 29/11/2024@ugarles.bsky.social I need a hot take on the LV implosion please. 210
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 25/11/2024Something I’ve been working on for a long time, in memory of those of us who didn’t make it. It was interesting (and cathartic) to write it in someone else’s voice.loureedsnephew.comThe Undepressed PersonIn memoriam. 061
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 17/11/2024I'm calling for an immediate moratorium on the really overdue library book story. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...msn.comMSN 000
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com · 14/11/2024When Jefferson founded UVA, he was disappointed that the students were not the Jeffersonian citizens he had hoped for. They drank. The gambled. They dueled. They horsewhipped the headmaster. (This is true.) Jefferson disappointed us too. This democracy thing is disappointment all the way down. 000
