have you ever finished a book and thought, 'okay, i’m reading everything this person writes'?

Who are the great living prose stylists? Let’s say we’ve already named Sally Rooney and Jesmyn Ward. Recent prize winners/nominees like Anne Carson, Marlon James, Daniel Kraus, David Szalay—okay, accounted for. I mean the fuckin stylists. Weird-ass sentence technicians. Who?

Very true. Men don't read because publishing industry has been feminised and literary agents and publishers don't prefer (from what I've read from informal sources) publishing books which could appeal to men because there is an increasingly limited audience. It is a vicious cycle.

hello pls drop recommendations for an ‘unputdownable’ book 🙏🏻

Exhibit A:

What book do you think deserves way more attention than it gets?

Mircea Cartarescu’s SOLENOID — the “instant classic,” the “masterwork,” the “landmark,” the “greatest surrealist novel ever written” — will be back in stock November 2026.

I can’t believe how many good books there are in the world

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67 years ago today, ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck Quartet was released as a single. It went on to become the best-selling jazz single of the 20th century.

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WHAT BOOK IS SO GOOD THAT AFTER READING IT, YOU BUY EVERY OTHER BOOK PUBLISHED BY ITS AUTHOR.

Karl Ove Knausgaard in his home library over the years.