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I had much to say about Lafferty, the most peculiar and experimental New Wave writer of them all, and his far-right politics in my essay “God Does, Perhaps? The Unlikely New Wave SF of R. A. Lafferty” in @pulpcurry.bsky.social's DANGEROUS VISIONS AND NEW WORLDS pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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In Australia: gas facility that employs 300 people is essential despite environmental and cultural destruction; loss of hundreds of university jobs, not a problem

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All those dudes and lady dude conservatives shrieking about how big cities are murder machines live and do business in big cities. They know they're lying. It's what they do.

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Academia loves a TLA* and it’s striking how much Blue Labour policy on university comes down to what is best for OPC** *Three Letter Acronym **Other People’s Children

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New on the blog today, I've written about some of my favourite books in the excellent Faber Editions series. Featuring titles by Jean Stafford, Emeric Pressburger, Gwendolyn Brooks, Brigid Brophy & more! #BookSky 💙📚 @faberbooks.bsky.social jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/m...

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Current read The Heart of Winter by Kevin Barry. Crackling sentences, vividly visual. Woke me up on the train. Very, very good so far.

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Haven’t been reading George’s Simenon’s Maigret books in order, so I don’t think it mattered that I cracked the final one he wrote. ‘Maigret and Monsieur Charles’, from 1972, No. 75 in the series. Translated by Ros Schwartz.

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First Watch: Odds Against Tomorrow (1959). Late noir directed by Robert Wise, who excelled in many genres, and written by blacklisted Abraham Polonsky under an alias. Shot in academy ration with lots of location shooting, it has a raw urgency and an amazing jazz score. 1/3

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If you think Bluesky is dead you clearly aren't a night poster That's when the Australians, Europeans, drunks, and weirdo insomniacs come out!

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Hello! The penultimate episode of our 60s chart is out now and it's a heady mix of Honky Tonk and apocalyptic rock n roll! We hope you enjoy! pod.link/1531129636/e...

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May 19, 1975

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I’ve been trying to not buy more secondhand books but I made an exception for the Lifeline $2 clearance sale last weekend. Just a small haul. Surprised and pleased to score an older book by Ace Atkins – first one I’ve seen.

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This week Historians At The Movies is on a mission from God. Join us on Netflix at 8pm eastern this Sunday, June 1 for THE BLUES BROTHERS #HATM

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Me, the TV, the bed-as-chair, the sporadic they're-not-tweets-what-do-they-call-them-here because I'm too locked into the movie, the running-late-every-week dinner. We're putting the band back together this Sunday because i don't like musicals, but I loooove the Blues Brothers! #HATM

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Completed collection of ‘Nathan Aldyne’ detective novels. Pseudonym for the awesome, much missed, horror author and screenwriter Michael McDowell. Could only find the last volume in the US. #arrivedtoday

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Out now

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A selection of 1970s/1980s West German comics available at one of the local second hand shops in my Berlin neighbourhood. And, before you ask, no I did not buy them.

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1/2 Just watched THE NAKED SPUR (1953), a gripping #western involving a murderer and captors seeking to turn him in for a reward. Superb acting, script and dazzling Rocky Mountains cinematography. 1 of 5 westerns made by James Stewart and director Anthony Mann. #FilmSky #MovieSky

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Apparently the ending with Wayne holding one arm with his hand was a tribute to Harry Carey who made the same gesture often. #TCMParty #TheSearchers ^JW

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High Anxiety (1977) Directed by Mel Brooks

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BOTD John Cheever!!! Brilliant short stories Our fave: Goodbye, My Brother newyorker.com/magazine/195... More Michael Chabon on The Swimmer themillions.com/2015/08/summ... @libraryofamerica.bsky.social www.loa.org/news-and-vie... @dustinillingworth.bsky.social www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08...

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Exhausted by America's ongoing political train wreck? Divert yourself with a tale of adventures that were truly great. Join me and Brendan Dowds of History Nerds United as we discuss my new book, L. A. Birdmen. #aviation #history historynerdsunited.com/2025/02/rich....

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Today is the birthday of writer Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894-Jan. 10, 1961). Most remembered today for creations like Sam Spade and Nick & Nora Charles, he also cocreated the newspaper comic strip Secret Agent X-9 (later renamed Secret Agent Corrigan) with Flash Gordon-creator Alex Raymond.

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In "Peanuts," Snoopy first adopted his insouciant, sunglasses-sporting Joe Cool persona on May 27, 1971.

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Depending where you sit on the globe, Dashiell Hammett’s birthday is just starting or just finishing. Here’s to the Pinkerton man, old leftie prisoner of conscience and “the Ace performer.”

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The Family: The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion. Written by Ed Sanders.

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"The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps." Dashiell Hammett The Dain Curse

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Share one of your favorite comfort TV shows. 📺 My choice: The Rockford Files

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Happy birthday to the American author who—as Raymond Chandler said—“gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.”

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The Outfit (1973) written and directed by John Flynn from the novel by Donald Westlake (aka Richard Stark). With Robert Duvall, Karen Black and the late, great Joe Don Baker, supported by a coterie of classic Film Noir veterans. #FilmNoir #TippingMyFedoraFlashback shorturl.at/F5tGQ

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#NowWatching "WHERE EAGLES DARE" (1968) on TCM [email protected] Directed by Brian G. Hutton. Starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure and Ingrid Pitt #Movies #FilmSky #Vintage #MemorialDay #WWII #1960s #Oldschool #History

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All hail The Queen on her special day! Happy Birthday PAM! #pamgrier #pamgrierbirthday #happybirthday #foxylady #coffy #foxybrown #shebababy #blaxploitation #blaxploitationqueen #blackqueen #blackcinema #soulcinema #filmsky @pamgrier.bsky.social

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meanwhile, in Brazilian Catholicism

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