R.A. Littman

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Chasing Ghosts | Larry Rohter With its brilliant prose and unrelenting darkness and pessimism, José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night towers over Chilean literature.

“In a time replete with manifold political monsters,” José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night “seems prescient in its presentation of gender, religion, and…the breakdown of the ties binding the individual and the community.” —Larry Rohter

Rest Home —Djamel Bouchenaki (tr. Jordan Barger) June 25th, 2025 Today, Granddad goes to the sea. Mom says he needs peace and quiet, that he needs time to recover, so we’re taking him to a rest home west of Algiers. There, so close to the Mediter…

"This was where we put people we wanted to forget, in places beyond time, beyond space; places where the senses were suspended, that rested on the periphery, the margins ..."

Rest Home — @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social (tr. Jordan Barger)

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Keshed by Stu Hennigan

@stuhennigan.bsky.social's new book has reached the Netherlands. Been eagerly awaiting this one for many months

#GetKeshed

Auckland professor associated with Jeffrey Epstein Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein reveal meetings with an Auckland professor who remarked on Epstein's 'bevy of beauties'

How bizarre: Epstein offered to fund a proposed book by Brian Boyd on Lolita newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/01/a...

Excerpts from The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau & Pornographia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo … life itself, the perfect composition of flesh elevated into a cathedral of fluids and organs, into a little god of misery.

We've our final historical texts for this mid-week ULTRAVIOLET offering at @thearsonista.bsky.social: excerpts from Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden and Jean-Baptiste Del Amo's Pornographia: burninghousepress.com/2026/01/28/e...

I enjoyed your excerpts from Mirbeau!

I wish someone would do a new English translation of The Torture Garden. I really didn't care for the Richardson

Truest thing I've read on this app in a minute

Nostalgia is quickly becoming a new favorite short story collection. "The Roulette Player" is one of the best short stories I've ever read

"I don't like the substance from which poetry is made: smells too much like ether, like nail polish. You have to consume your own self too much, like Nasrudin Hodja. The true prose writer consumes others."

-"REM", Mirceau Cărtărescu

What a fucking banger

"That the sinister obligations of my life impose work on me, so be it; that anyone ask me to believe in it, to revere my or others' labor, never. I prefer, one again, to walk in darkness while believing I'm walking in daylight. There is no point in being alive if you have to work."

-Nadja by Breton

Hurricane Season is a close second for my favorite of 2025.

Ya, the early "yum yum" stuff is really what caused me to put it down initially. I went off and read Hell Has No Limits and it gave me some more trust in him and caused me to go back. So glad I did

This is probably my favorite read of 2025. I initially dnf'd it and then came back to it and was blown away

Literature isn't mimetic and you can't change my mind

It's been weeks and I'm still thinking about how dog shit Frankenstein was. A deeply affecting film

I want to go back here

Either end capitalism or bring back patrons

I've read a number of these and loved them. Adding The Taiga Syndrome to the tbr

Taking time off has been amazing for my manuscript. It's almost like capitalism strangles your creativity and gorges itself on your time and energy

The Wax Child by Olga Ravn

Finally got a copy of The Wax Child.

I'm easily disappointed when books are heavily hyped, but I'm pleased to say this one is delivering so far. I'm looking forward to seeing where she takes things

Sacred Cow by Diamela Eltit

Read this in a single sitting. Absolutely devastating.

It was like The Hour of the Star only better

The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso

This book really opens up on a reread. I'm so glad I gave Obscene Bird a second chance. A truly unique and inspiring work of art

No, this was how I found out about her! Even more exciting knowing that she's a poet

All the posts I've been seeing are really making me look forward to The Wax Child being available here

Genuinely saddened to hear this

It was a bit like reading Bolaño. There's clearly something interesting there, but there's simply too much missing. I really don't understand why they're put on such a high pedestal

Satantango was disappointing. It wasn't bad, but Krasznahorkai just seems extremely overhyped. I don't know if I'll be reading any more of him

Can't believe Woody Allen is voting for a known sexual predator.

I wonder what this means for his new novel where he'll finally leave his comfort zone and explore *checks description* an age gap relationship

I have a seperate account for politics that I use when I feel like making bad mental health decisions, with this account being exclusively for writing/books. If a book person posts too much about politics, I just won't follow them.

Ever since Kirk, the two timelines have become indistinguishable