Frank, are you saying Antunes was correct as well as bitter?
10.03.2026 19:23
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Frank, are you saying Antunes was correct as well as bitter?
The novels were reissued by the same publisher 5 or 6 years ago; these are just rejacketings to tie in with the essays.
Humboldt's Gift - Taylor Swift
Catcher In The Rye - Stephen Fry
Stamboul Train - Harry Kane
I don’t even know who that is intended to be more of a dig at.
Was trying to remember where I heard that name before, then remembered it was in a review calling Lauren Oyler the Renata Adler of looking at her phone a lot.
Earthly Powers - Dane Bowers
The Enchantress of Florence - Jennifer Lawrence
Infinite Jest - Kanye West
Crome Yellow - Saul Bellow
Lord of the flies - Ernie Wise
The Hobbit - Lorena Bobbit
Dracula - Scott Bakula
The grapes of wrath - Tim Roth
East of Eden - Rachel Stevens
Persuasion - David Jason
Haha, indeed. Norman St John Stevas / Bag of Maltesers.
Noting that Muriel Spark did the intro to Pitch Dark, there should be more introductions by people whose names rhyme with the book's title.
Watership Down - Dan Brown
Jane Eyre - Tony Blair
Hotel du Lac - Lee Mack
Thank You, Jeeves - Rachel Reeves
Beckett's Molloy - David Szalay
Is that, by any chance, after she ceased to be a staff writer for the NYr?
Garner’s How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, with the same design
After the Tall Timber, from the cover design, presumably hoping to pick up a little Helen Garner stardust.
After the Tall Timber, with a blue and yellow panel design and a black and white photo of Adler
Speedboat. Cover shows two buildings with cracks or markings on the walls and windows disrupting their surface and making them look glitchy. Cover by Evan Sklar
Pitch Dark. Cover shows a plain black design with the lines of a road the only visible element - illustration by Evan Sklar
Renata Adler’s After the Tall Timber, her collected non-fiction, coming later this month from W&N Essentials, alongside her novels Speedboat (intro: Hilton Als) and Pitch Dark (intro: Muriel Spark).
Btw the story, which I did click through to, doesn't provide any evidence that people have actually complained about the bench.
"The reverend asked people to bear in mind that the devil, like God, is not actually real so it would be a bit silly to complain."
Vicar defends church's devil-horned bench tribute to Prodigy's Keith Flint
This story can only disappoint if I actually click through and read it.
Traditional Irish expression, said of a man with a very thin face: He could kiss a goat between the horns
I chose AI for three I think, but it's a stupid test as they created the AI passages by giving Claude the human passages...!
How odd! The picture has now gone.
"After barely a week, public support for Trump’s Iran war is at the same level it was for the Vietnam war in late 1967 following more than 11,000 American deaths. There is no US tolerance today for even a few dozen casualties. Taco — “Trump always chickens out” — is thus a question of when."
Here's the source, appears with other ai images. (it's on the additional images carousel below.)
www.freepik.com/premium-phot...
And there are odd elements, though hard to be sure because of the blurriness, such as the arrangement of the papers/book she's reading, and something on her wrist that looks like a watch face with no strap, etc.
Umm, does anyone at @societyofauthors.bsky.social want to walk me through why using an AI-generated picture* to illustrate the countdown to their anti-AI watermark was a good idea?
(*it looks like to me, anyway)
humanauthored.co.uk
Carl Sagan can't write for shit.
Is this a @leemadgwick.bsky.social painting?
A connected point (you may be aware of!) is that when they installed lights at the sides of the Albert Bridge, the murmurations of thousands of starlings began to decline precipitously. They've since added red filters, though whether they'll recover to past levels is unclear.
"I couldn't remember where I'd parked."
These recession indicators are getting a bit too on the nose
A gold - very gold, as in deep reflective metallic gold - BMW being transported on a pickup truck.
Nothing to see here, just a gold BMW being towed away.
Umm. Whose bones?