Zola Jesus ARKHON (2022)

(What like a bullet can undeceive!) -Herman Melville

Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

unless you're a Beatlemaniac, I'd strongly suggest starting with 'Night Boat to Tangiers' or 'City of Bohane' first. Barry is an insanely talented writer, but this material is so niche and interior as to be very dull for an outsider. Barry is also a terrific narrator of his own material if you're an audiobook listener.

Joan Shelley THE SPUR (2022)

We have some heroes still, and we lose some by the day. Prayers & thanks for Mike Davis.

Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

a love letter to labor and a tribute to communal, rhizomal resistance

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Autistic Auteurist Completionist: Christopher Nolan

We're Gonna Need a Bigger Screen

1) Dunkirk (2017)

2) The Dark Knight (2008)

3) Inception (2010)

4) Interstellar (2014)

Every Artist is a Detective, and Every Detective is a Conman

5) The Prestige (2006)

6) Insomnia (2002)

I'm Mr. November, I Won't Fuck Us Over

7) Memento (2000)

8) Batman Begins (2005)

And Why Do We Fall, Bruce?

9) The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

10) Tenet (2020)

Hiemal AUBURN BLAZE (2021)

the best song colin meloy ever wrote, must have on your summer roadtrip playlists:

Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

darkest timeline Sheriff Andy Taylor in darkest timeline Mayberry, ymmv

Hiemal CASCAPEDIA (2022)

often under the eaves 

we buried our hearts in linen

marked with a twig, to be found and returned

if not already eaten 

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

belongs in the canon of great PNW literature