www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6v... @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social was kind enough to host me banging on about Hungarian/Magyarul literature in English translation, one of my personal obsessions.

It's insane

lol

Postage for a single paperback. "Support independent publishers!" Fuck off.

Oh dear. Thank you!

Enquiring minds want to know!

Making a different thing: the ex-rental sales shelf from your local shabby VHS rental shop circa 1989

She’s gorgeous!

You’d think they’d understand the value of carefully chosen words, but no, they just want to press go on the bullshit machine.

Well, if nothing else, not buying any more Europa books will save me some money.

] at last [ ] Anne Carson [ ] Nobel [

Sometimes it's useful NOT to separate the art from the artist. For example the fact that Salvador Dali was a stupid prick adds important context to his work

America is scum

Ah, this makes it sound great again! Maybe I'm just in the wrong frame of mind for reading the book at the moment--I will retry it one day.

Thank you!

Some of those AI-written books are bad enough to _cause_ WW3.

I know! How could it go so wrong?!?!?!

This whole thing is a Shakespearean tragedy

Everything seemed so promising! A Persephone book! Scottish! Set and written during WW2! Penelope Fitzgerald loved it! But it did absolutely nothing for me. Why must good people suffer like this?

What Gordon said!

Ha, sorry to do that to you!