Virginia Woolf, Don Delillo, Henry James, Isaac Babel, Flannery O’Connor, D. H. Lawrence etc.https://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mk6d3cdewc2gMarveling at some of the greatest singing ever captured on tape #country #georgejones #hankwilliams23 Apr 2026 15:25 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6d3cdewc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mjrgvrqjbk26The Boschian surreality, the desperate vulgarity, always linking rape and war, the shit talking humor of super hot blues cadence, “‘till Jimmy Hoffa” is found. #tomwaits #massiveattack #bootsontheground18 Apr 2026 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjrgvrqjbk26https://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mgukjdvphk2aAll the “foot’s big toe” and “room’s wooden floor” stuff in #infinitejest conjures feelings of both alienation from and connection to the physical universe. Very much “this is water”. It’s the way NYC makes you feel. Like an insect and like a giant depending12 Mar 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgukjdvphk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mgegxpvzh22wTwo of my favorite authors I can’t wait to get back to. I think about both frequently06 Mar 2026 04:10 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgegxpvzh22whttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mfho3kzvjk2tA book teaches you how to read it, someone said. So much of IJ is about internal struggles with objects and substances, obsession and avoidance. The book is a fucking Object, addictive and fearsome. I struggle22 Feb 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfho3kzvjk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mee7ooxi4c2g100 pages of The Idiot left. 20 pages in on Infinite Jest (30 anniversary book clubs await!). I know DFW was. Big Dostoyevsky guy. Questions of who’s fully human, who’s sub (per mental illness) or super human (per beauty or talent) might be in both?08 Feb 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mee7ooxi4c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mcs25w55lk26Listening and writing songs out by hand is better than scrolling an iPad with 1000 chord charts and lyrics for many reasons. One is getting the chance to hear something wrong, then finding out the right lyric later—then sometimes preferring the wrong slightly! #lyrics #booksky #gettingyourhandsdirty19 Jan 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcs25w55lk26https://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mcgezpuuic2vEncountered in the park15 Jan 2026 01:00 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcgezpuuic2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mca2ckqny22mAs a dedicated Odd Lots listener who turned 50 in December, my partner got me the perfect books. Breakneck was wonderful. On to scary scary AI!! #booksky #oddlots12 Jan 2026 12:32 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mca2ckqny22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mc3k3dpgn22xThe Housemaid is a bad movie that feeds a meagerness in men and makes a mean estimation of the world. It’s ashamed of its mission which is to get a good look at Sidney Sweeney naked and conduct tasteful fully vetted and restrained torture porn. #joyless #movies #nojokes #companionisagoodtrashymovie10 Jan 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc3k3dpgn22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mbd647zw6c2n“Least Shelved” and probably still my favorite book of all time. People need to get on the Isaac Babel train!! #booksky #literaturesky01 Jan 2026 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbd647zw6c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mbd5ah5dmc2pHaving finished Turgenev’s Fathers and Children, to which Notes from Underground apparently is a direct response, I’m finally getting to my first major Dostoevsky. Here goes nothing :) #booksky01 Jan 2026 00:37 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbd5ah5dmc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mapa57jst22oWhen your book freaks #flanneryoconnor out, you’re doing something right. #booksky #literaturesky24 Dec 2025 02:36 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mapa57jst22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3mao72pnszc2yyoutu.be/K_JzlJ9cTMk A one of one artistic vision, funny tender, sad, complex, and to top it off a drop dead gorgeous SINGER https://youtu.be/K_JzlJ9cTMk23 Dec 2025 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3mao72pnszc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3magyahka522iIf you’re a reader who likes sentences, please try Joy Williams. I mean, come on… #booksky20 Dec 2025 19:53 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3magyahka522ihttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m7vtw3smi22lForgot why I’d held this at the library months ago. Now I remember #booksky14 Dec 2025 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7vtw3smi22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m7tj2jg34k26Ranked order 3) No Country for Old Men - alone and baked out of my shoes. I thought I would die. 2) Hereditary - people screaming then laughing and clutching one another 1) Titanic - before anyone knew. Openly sobbing, throwing themselves into the aisles [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Dec 2025 02:01 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7tj2jg34k26https://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m7fxd7x3k22bIn flight watch JFK to Grand Cayman: The Accountant Return flight…The Accountant II @jessehawken.bsky.social inspired by 🙏07 Dec 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7fxd7x3k22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m7aj3fcsik23#booksky its lines like this that brighten the world, making it more real than real, that I read for. (Other stuff too, but still…)05 Dec 2025 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7aj3fcsik23https://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m6xng3xyas2h#booksky the most disorienting. I laughed until I cried.02 Dec 2025 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6xng3xyas2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m6ulvin2gk2lhttps://music.apple.com/us/album/rank-stranger/1476075886?i=1476076111 Something powerful, magical, mischievous, happens when this song is played and sung communally at a bluegrass jam, in a room full of “strangers”: “I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”30 Nov 2025 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ulvin2gk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m6rqx4zxkc2ehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bookworm/id73330484?i=1000660237765 one of the great podcast episodes of all time29 Nov 2025 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6rqx4zxkc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m6cx3enu3k2u#Dylan Positively 4th St. is intentionally unlyrical, unpoetic, a wholly new concoction a singer could build an identity around.This alongside virtuosic displays like Its Allright Ma, and traditional reworkings—that could be hits today—like Moonshiner. The range is staggering23 Nov 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6cx3enu3k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m6334irce224One a day Rilke. Symmetry here? Rage being taken in…core of cores…20 Nov 2025 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6334irce224https://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m5vtdgfhyk2yTwo curbside finds! One a portal to Joy Williams and the other is Hamlet, with wonderful introduction and essays. Both smell amazing. #booksky18 Nov 2025 13:20 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5vtdgfhyk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m5lsswmjfc2qRilke one poem a day. Going great so far. I think my fav so far is this one about a tomb. Not the only corpse handling by a long shot in his work. #booksky14 Nov 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5lsswmjfc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/foolsburg.bsky.social/post/3m5hth6iesc2oCan’t stop listening to this. It’s a perfect pop song melody. The chord progression rules12 Nov 2025 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:wlbdygledfggukxtshqdlcue/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hth6iesc2o