"Style isn’t something you apply later". Tom Gatti on the joyous nature of the prose of late Martin Amis.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/06/martin-amis-and-the-pursuit-of-pleasure

"In the meantime, I will be rereading Gibbon." Mike Duncan on the undying allure and often overlooked flaws of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" — https://newrepublic.com/article/181667/ruins-edward-gibbons-masterpiece-mike-duncan

Raw, gnashing stoicism has unequivocally won hearts and minds. Last films I’ve seen (Blue Eye Samurai, The Northman, The Revenant) are cut from that cloth. Good entertainment, true, but who’s decided that we — of epicurean, frivolous and decadent dispositions — don’t make for compelling narratives?

What does one do when an unknown posts his new tattoo on social media and the first thing you notice is a spelling mistake?

What would Bladerunner have said?

@GreatDismal is, I suppose, my favorite author. Every now and then, I get an urge to re-read his novels, all of them. Usually starting with Count Zero or Pattern Recognition. Just now, the Count has me under his spell again. Its opening pages, with Turner, are absolutely fantastic!