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Uncharismatic megafauna.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 21 hr
Nightmarish
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2 days
When your extended footnote suddenly turns to violent threat. (William H Gass, ‘Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife’)
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 3 days
trying to hold back the tide of mortality by buying a wall of these things
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 2 days
Sadly, this turned out to be one of the worst things I've read in a while.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 4 days
YES! West Timorese novel incoming in January from Archipelago Books.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 4 days
"What do you mean, a one-trick pony?"
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 6 days
I mean, the current UK Vintage Classics have war scenes too...
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 6 days
The forthcoming Vintage Classics editions of Roberto Bolaño's books are very handsome things:
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 6 days
The CD and vinyl packaging of 'Take Care, Take Care, Take Care' by Explosions in the Sky unfolded into a little cabin in the woods (with an included poster for the ground)
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 6 days
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 8 days
Had a bit of time off work (only 19 hours until I have to go back, BOO HISS) so, as well as reading a whole mess of books, managed to watch a bunch of good-to-brilliant films.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 8 days
[deep, sad sigh]
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 9 days
About the only good thing in this world is that there seems to be no end to the supply of great mid-century women writers. (Admittedly often sadly neglected, but they're there to be found.)
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 11 days
did not expect this to be so like the old WILLIAM books, except with way more racism and handjobs
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 13 days
See, some might say it's NOT a John le Carré Novel, given John le Carré didn't write it.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 15 days
Unfortunate author/title combo, or inscrutable life advice?
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 15 days
EXCUSE ME THEY'RE GREAT DOGS NOT JUST STANDARD DOGS
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 15 days
Wise to check in this particular case, I guess, to prevent some sort of canine financial conspiracy.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 17 days
How is this perfect cover for Marlen Haushofer's THE WALL not actually a cover for Marlen Haushofer's THE WALL?
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 19 days
Yes! I wanted the US version which has a great cover, but it was more than 2x the price.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 19 days
Just watched the amazing Indonesian film 'Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts', and am once again begging Australian (pop 30 million) publishers/distributors to make available more Indonesian (pop 275 million, RIGHT NEXT DOOR) stuff here!
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 19 days
the whole "magically exchanging money for books" thing happened again
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 19 days
Not sure how this happened, but doomed British PM Rishi Sunak has somehow got exactly the same facial profile as John Updike.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 21 days
Somehow I had failed to know this has been available in English for 6 years. Translated by Bart Smet.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 22 days
Make your own papercraft DUEL for your desk (ideally on company time): papermodel.jp/peterbilt281...
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 25 days
Yeah, I'll get right on that
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1 mo
Maybe stop calling this shit "manslaughter" and start calling it "murder"?
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1 mo
From the excellent index to ‘The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse’:
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1 mo
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 1 mo
When reading a book, you know who I'd like to hear from even less than Roxane Gay? A chatbot simulacrum of Roxane Gay.