tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54132911831641402972024-02-26T02:13:54.059-08:00Caustic Cover CriticOne man's endless ranting about book covers and design...JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comBlogger888125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-50233932711035292502024-01-28T00:48:00.000-08:002024-01-28T00:48:53.246-08:00Best of 2023<p> The third of my year-in-reading columns has gone up over at <a href="https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2024/01/27/james-morrisons-year-in-reading-2023/" target="_blank">Dorian's blog</a>: the best stuff I read in 2023.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2024/01/27/james-morrisons-year-in-reading-2023/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="909" data-original-width="723" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVTw5m7PhVlnbiqaTLc0-IWVvG15S77804UC7PDhuGyFadwHliceCfIB_42vQJK0iXW8qcXk0GDR6aDPcs_pW3NNsTtPySwJi4_--O7Gvkxus89Gep8QoURIC8SNwfGXIEOp1mswPPCHTuRDkWfFdFi2nReu3U2mPz-H4i6KC4e6VpI2gBTc_2nVHTMiU=w509-h640" width="509" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-88998387203913549202024-01-10T15:41:00.000-08:002024-01-10T15:41:32.549-08:00First to Knock, Mr CrabbyI recently read and thoroughly enjoyed a book by a publisher new to me, <a href="https://firsttoknock.com/">First to Knock</a>.The book was Jeremy Kitchen's <i>Mr Crabby You Have Died</i>, which was not quite like anything else I've read (always a plus).<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Scb-j0CViBOYIlC5V7fzaq3S-1bL9GnPtXVDnGhbdOex_yAFDT6WzPDUqdhbZ24OvQ2xqMO2JRvzxrL5DlzVUOstUetbHxhvVxwHRU4RCGGVK9cwnBYhiyh68HaZrOeY4QHIPM30kilj05-tN-69SJjJ37XdHTDeNrl_PdHcngEz1DSRm8IW0RQ8W4A/s637/MrCrabby_79ea4696-3c0a-43ad-8224-5229e7bc58a2_740x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="412" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Scb-j0CViBOYIlC5V7fzaq3S-1bL9GnPtXVDnGhbdOex_yAFDT6WzPDUqdhbZ24OvQ2xqMO2JRvzxrL5DlzVUOstUetbHxhvVxwHRU4RCGGVK9cwnBYhiyh68HaZrOeY4QHIPM30kilj05-tN-69SJjJ37XdHTDeNrl_PdHcngEz1DSRm8IW0RQ8W4A/w259-h400/MrCrabby_79ea4696-3c0a-43ad-8224-5229e7bc58a2_740x.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Imagine falling into conversation in a bar with a stranger who starts telling you drink-fuelled anecdotes. Anecdotes about being an American soldier during Desert Storm, and being exposed to a blown Sarin gas store. Anecdotes about being a teacher while raddled with heroin. Anecdotes about a beloved but ill-fated hermit crab, weirdo Christian youth camps and incredibly ill-advised sex (not all of these anecdotes connect with each other, but some do, in surprising ways). Hilarious anecdotes and also truly disgusting ones.</div><div><br /></div><div>Kitchen's book, with all the believable and alarming texture of lived experience, is that encounter in literary form. It's a bracing dose of particularly American ugliness, vividly captured. </div><div><br /></div><div>I also love the cover art (by <a href="https://donaldbruno.com/" target="_blank">Donald Bruno</a>) and design (by <a href="https://nickferreira.biz/" target="_blank">Nick Ferreira</a>). Ferreira has designed a number of excellent covers for First to Knock, as well as some of the album releases they also put out:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuVsyrZ7z7TzZyHZS7qQEx8VuEovE_aUjq7wmzH3WBq1r9ABghfzTrbFG2ibfWf-wd6OJUUNLxGcU1da2MhSxoZk4wuaYRKU2leD-SOh5FWUZW7COehp17LGpM0g8nexB8XWzMtdknLuDvY_c-Z7o1OiFa160oweOPLaF_kgSKAb1ysrXRYXuheOU_erQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuVsyrZ7z7TzZyHZS7qQEx8VuEovE_aUjq7wmzH3WBq1r9ABghfzTrbFG2ibfWf-wd6OJUUNLxGcU1da2MhSxoZk4wuaYRKU2leD-SOh5FWUZW7COehp17LGpM0g8nexB8XWzMtdknLuDvY_c-Z7o1OiFa160oweOPLaF_kgSKAb1ysrXRYXuheOU_erQ=w258-h400" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7VTEBL1RAIXsbE2yUmdbZuqKzTWOUyfMu0trZbiYj0oRRm8c_3SZfUo4x_jdUSYpmV28HkF9h3LUwHVX0qHhc6k6XAzOSE2wcZ3GO-ahOajv2dBKJr4Yr5XA6KL8roPogXXyK6bdXQJkt4nb51lTl3Fimq69bvnFE8XowaVC_3hfVb9oNXmWGQeMgRgo/s740/beam_740x.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />First to Knock also publish a free(!) irregular self-titled magazine, which even as a far-flung Australian I have been able to subscribe to, so I'll be interested to see an issue of that when it arrives. The covers so far (with Bruno providing the art to issue 1):</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGo_cpUYTRaM02-FMRhOwBKxHNn_IglqZmOrjrfFtZ2GbihojKUb-X655xi9djMf1KMf_gbdHzqFOdrR5OD3uMYk7mHjpTPO6Z6yfotoKJGZEGyk_r5U1n5a4Zv10FHGMLISd8bFkcVm8Ww4Nq3sjyNyO1jBoa_VAZtIB6GgaBE2MMCi3vWWapXd2to0/s2048/102023_FTK_PeriodicalHero_1_2048x2048.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="2048" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGo_cpUYTRaM02-FMRhOwBKxHNn_IglqZmOrjrfFtZ2GbihojKUb-X655xi9djMf1KMf_gbdHzqFOdrR5OD3uMYk7mHjpTPO6Z6yfotoKJGZEGyk_r5U1n5a4Zv10FHGMLISd8bFkcVm8Ww4Nq3sjyNyO1jBoa_VAZtIB6GgaBE2MMCi3vWWapXd2to0/w400-h159/102023_FTK_PeriodicalHero_1_2048x2048.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>(Click all images for bigger versions)</i></b></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-72072797788533083602023-11-21T20:57:00.000-08:002023-11-21T20:57:16.283-08:00Book Launch for Gibbons or One Bloody Thing After Another by James Morrison<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/3S1OHRnb1Vg?si=iUnMwFrSdtKHc9F9" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Click through for full size.JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-13689333120233772772023-10-17T20:31:00.004-07:002023-10-17T20:31:29.726-07:00Book LaunchThe free online launch for my book is this weekend (21 or 22 October, depending where in the world you are): <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-gibbons-or-one-bloody-thing-after-another-by-james-morrison-tickets-728313885437" target="_blank">please feel free to come along</a>!<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMIz9xaDXacfqgQ-mY9dqbiOjPMMVbX3uE2H9x5gxnuAQuvfLZw5vH3OkjY_YKgBUkfBk-CHT9Y-RHhyucqeahcmNEIKeClzfgqEZpmbNrIcng-g8VU4FE_isP3zbFDIO7JHAQQCOMh4CcpwgL_Uu3JaGGGPg8WRu0VTLg54h6mul95xL4V1RyxrbU_Ww/s1024/img_7154.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="627" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMIz9xaDXacfqgQ-mY9dqbiOjPMMVbX3uE2H9x5gxnuAQuvfLZw5vH3OkjY_YKgBUkfBk-CHT9Y-RHhyucqeahcmNEIKeClzfgqEZpmbNrIcng-g8VU4FE_isP3zbFDIO7JHAQQCOMh4CcpwgL_Uu3JaGGGPg8WRu0VTLg54h6mul95xL4V1RyxrbU_Ww/s320/img_7154.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VM-MbwZUxds?si=WqHCNF_uDdvhYMXF" title="YouTube video player" width="360"></iframe>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-46115448162576636882023-09-19T19:33:00.007-07:002023-09-19T19:34:33.905-07:00GIBBONS<p>My book is out, published by the good folk at <a href="https://orbistertiuspress.ca/" target="_blank">Orbis Tertius Press</a>, should you wish to read it. You do wish to read it, right? It's the discontinuous narrative of an Australian family in short stories, including glass eyes, false mermaids, inadvertent death, nuclear weapons, and the accidental destruction of the Sydney Opera House.</p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7pSOjpwn03EQVn-iOLjgkqBf09NkDPC2y8fYTq_OsPBGM4yJNvr72So3iMzIp0NifVfZ0FDzxZNkd8qNtFR-TSQU0sPmjYM1JUNEZoijO-9WfwvGYSSnyTAIkh-7excWiIs6OIgMZv7yhvv_AkxRer3U1hDKgaBgEUgkLeR5Dmv6yooMMJwSnKSrIAkQ/s1024/img_7154.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="627" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7pSOjpwn03EQVn-iOLjgkqBf09NkDPC2y8fYTq_OsPBGM4yJNvr72So3iMzIp0NifVfZ0FDzxZNkd8qNtFR-TSQU0sPmjYM1JUNEZoijO-9WfwvGYSSnyTAIkh-7excWiIs6OIgMZv7yhvv_AkxRer3U1hDKgaBgEUgkLeR5Dmv6yooMMJwSnKSrIAkQ/w245-h400/img_7154.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><br /><p>You can <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/james-morrison/gibbons/paperback/product-g6rmj4.html?page=1&pageSize=4" target="_blank">buy it here</a> for now. At some imminent-ish future date it should be available on Amazon, where it may be cheaper (but I'll get very little in the way of money), assuming you can square that with your conscience. That's up to you, I'm not your mother.</p><p>There's a zero-budget book trailer here:</p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VM-MbwZUxds?si=WqHCNF_uDdvhYMXF" title="YouTube video player" width="360"></iframe>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-73562079761958594732023-09-07T17:16:00.003-07:002023-09-07T17:16:16.780-07:00100 Great Short Books<p>Because I will be doing a monthly thing next year with the mighty <a href="https://neglectedbooks.com/" target="_blank">Brad Bigelow</a> about novellas, here's the full list of 100 great short books I recommended on Twitter, in one place for ease of reference.</p><p style="text-align: center;">***</p><div>1. THE DUEL: Joseph Conrad: genuinely funny novella about a Napoleonic officer being stalked over a period of years by a madman determined to fight a duel.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="360" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETNUZoiUMAE3zCu?format=png&name=small" width="257" /></div><div><br /></div><div>2. CONFESSIONS OF A LAPSED STANDARD-BEARER: Andreï Makine: maybe his most Chekhovian book, about Alyosha and Arkady, Young Pioneers in post-WW2 Leningrad; an oddly sweet book about terrible disillusionment</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETNVlT-VAAANS9n?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="294" /></div><div><br /></div><div>3. THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN: Giorgio De Maria: a political library of personal diaries inadvertently leads to a plague of mass psychosis and death; uneasy plague reading</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETNWLnDUcAE5_bF?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>4. THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS: Muriel Spark: pretty much any book by Spark would fit this list, but this might be my favourite; the erotic/emotional hothouse of a girl's boarding house during the Blitz with an unexploded bomb on the premises</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETRyTf5UwAAN0BY?format=jpg&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>5. CASTLE RACKRENT: Maria Edgeworth: another black comedy with duelling in it, plus obsession, intra-marriage warfare, politics and endless bad behaviour; the first Irish Big House saga, and it's only 90 pages</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="435" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETRyUb-UUAAovlz?format=jpg&name=small" width="313" /></div><div><br /></div><div>6. I HAVE WAITED, AND YOU HAVE COME: Martine McDonagh: a woman's life in sodden, semi-ruined post-Climate-Change England is disrupted by a man who has fixated on her; subtle, vivid and beautifully written</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETRzM7aU4AAbJYW?format=jpg&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>7. THESE POSSIBLE LIVES: Fleur Jaeggy: Three short essays about the lives of three writers, making up an absolutely brilliant tiny book which loops through absurdities and weirdnesses, history and art. Fascinating and amazing.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETXx9_6UEAA1i4r?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>8. JOAN SMOKES: Angela Meyer: a woman on the run from her past arrives in 1960s Las Vegas and reinvents herself in this noirish, fragmented novella</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETXyt9NUYAYvjYf?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>9. THE HOLE: José Revueltas: one of the most intense little books you'll ever read, positively humming with malignant energy; three Mexican prisoners scheme to bring drugs into their prison, and everything goes wrong</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETXzkmgUwAALCYg?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>10. A JOURNEY AROUND MY ROOM: Xavier de Maistre; perfect isolation reading; XdM was put under house arrest after a duel (DUELS AGAIN!) in 1790, so he wrote a travel book for the room he was trapped in--like a proto-Proust doing stand-up</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETbQsIzU4AABlGl?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>11. WHITE: Marie Darrieussecq: how about a tentative romance at a near-future Antarctic research base watched over by the ghosts of the many polar dead?</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETbS4qdUUAAkoYN?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>12. THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?: Horace McCoy: the best noir novella about death and non-stop dancing ever written</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETbTQocUUAAFVqP?format=png&name=360x360" /></div><div><br /></div><div>13. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HARRIET FREAN: May Sinclair: near-perfect unhappy short novel of self-destruction via doing the expected thing. Sinclair's only novel, though she was also a dab hand at ghost stories.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETnTFPDUMAAn0Aj?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>14. THE CROQUET PLAYER: H G Wells: speaking of ghosts... if they're the product of violence, what about all the blood shed by Neanderthals and other pre-modern humans as they struggled to the top of the evolutionary ladder? Unusual and little-known Wells, but still very much it.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETnTqX7UEAAn-Wz?format=png&name=360x360" /></div><div><br /></div><div>15. UPSTAGED: Jacques Jouet: a famous actor is captured, bound, gagged and stripped by his doppelgänger, who takes the stage in his place and begins to drag the world into chaos. Oulipian fun.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETnUakKUUAUvh-G?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>16. THE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER: Cesare Pavese: 1930s Italy, intense female friendship, first love affairs, discovering art and independence: get hooked on this, then move on to his 'Selected Works' from NYRB for four more brilliant novellas.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUjpMxJUEAEqrND?format=jpg&name=360x360" /> <img alt="Image" height="360" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUjph9IU8AANwJv?format=png&name=small" width="225" /></div><div><br /></div><div>17. THE ALOE: Katherine Mansfield: a rare longer work by one of the greatest short story writers in lit history, an early but quite different take on what would become her 'Prelude': a captured moment of time in a NZ family's life circa 1900: magical, frankly</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="576" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUjpwkOVAAAmuvl?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="368" /></div><div><br /></div><div>18. COMMONPLACE: Christina Rossetti: rare fiction from the great poet--three sisters tackle love, duty, marriage and independence in very different ways after the death of their parents. </div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUjqkeZUcAEM71e?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>19. WERTHER NIELAND: Gerard Reve: (published with another novella as 'Childhood') -- enjoy the company of an 11yo mystic and probable psychopath as he forces his 'friends' to join him in a series of dangerous and esoteric clubs in occupied Amsterdam</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVCykTeUcAAe-yx?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="299" /></div><div><br /></div><div>20. MY MORTAL ENEMY: Willa Cather: as a child and then an adult, Nellie is obsessed with the life and loves of an older woman from her home town; she encounters and re-encounters her throughout her life</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVC1VO5U0AAvlu-?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="301" /></div><div><br /></div><div>21. KILLING AUNTIE: Andrzej Bursa: you're young, you're bored, you murder your aunt, you dismember the body, you try to get rid of it, you meet a girl, you fall in love... we've all been there. Posthumously discovered blacker-than-black stuff from 1950s Poland.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVC09jbUUAAJAks?format=png&name=360x360" /></div><div><br /></div><div>22. TODDLER ON THE RUN: Shena Mackay: Morris, a grown man less than 4' tall, is on the run from the law and hiding out in a beach hut, besets by donkeys, beachside evangelists and British holidaymakers.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVHxTHvUcAAA-_9?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>23. A DIFFERENT SEA; Claudio Magris: a young intellectual flees Austria-Hungary for the Patagonian pampas and reading Greek classics after his hero and mentor commits suicide; his search for an "authentic life" is completely fucked over by the inevitable unpleasantness of history</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVHyZaDUcAAPd5Z?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>24. DOCTOR GLAS: Hjalmar Söderberg: brilliant, dark 1905 Swedish masterpiece about a depressive doctor in love with a woman whose monstrous clergyman husband insists on his "marital rights"; complications ensue, as they say</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVHzcvWU0AARsxQ?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="298" /></div><div><br /></div><div>25. THE ENDLESS SUMMER: Madame Nielsen: modernist, beautifully done group portrait of a family and various hangers-on over the course of a rural Danish summer</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVNX7DXU8AEV2g1?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>26. BAD NATURE, OR WITH ELVIS IN MEXICO: Javier Marías: Elvis is in Acapulco to film a movie, and in the boozy chaos his interpreter gets stuck in a cantina full of violent and talkative criminals</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVNYHhJUMAAZzob?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="291" /></div><div><br /></div><div>27. REUBEN SACHS: Amy Levy: 1880s feminist Jewish novella of snobbishness, love and bad marriages, written in partial reaction to DANIEL DERONDA. </div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVNZhwOU8AEiEGA?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>28. THE YELLOW SOFA: José Maria de Eça de Queirós: short, intense black comedy of infidelity and outraged morals by 19th-Century Portuguese genius</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVjFRl0U0AAxbeV?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="307" /></div><div><br /></div><div>29. THE ALIENIST: Machado de Assis: budding Brazilian psychiatrist and asylum-keeper discovers that the more he learns about his field, the more insane everyone around him becomes</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVjGVHfVAAE31vj?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>30. PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER: Katherine Anne Porter: obvious choice--the great novella of the Spanish Flu outbreak, a modernist masterpiece told from the POV of a fevered woman lying in her sickbed, her childhood memories mingling with those of the war and the plague deaths</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="541" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVjHdreVAAEdL8A?format=png&name=small" width="353" /></div><div><br /></div><div>31. THE PENITENT: Isaac Bashevis Singer: deeply uncomfortable novella about a man desperate for salvation, retreating into Orthodox Judaism and dedicating his life to becoming a penitent</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="435" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVjH5WTUEAAG5Lr?format=png&name=small" width="300" /></div><div><br /></div><div>32. HUNGARY-HOLLYWOOD EXPRESS: Éric Plamondon: rambling post-modern fictionalised biography of Hungarian Olympian and Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller, leaping discursively around the erratic weirdness of the 20th Century</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="576" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWGFPEqU8AY2t7n?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="351" /></div><div><br /></div><div>33. THE AFTERWORD: Mike Bryan: a novella in the form of an afterword to a non-existent American bestseller about faith and God in America</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="435" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWGF0w1U8AUk5J9?format=jpg&name=small" width="297" /></div><div><br /></div><div>34. A DEAD ROSE: Aurora Cáceres: minor symbolist masterpiece from Peruvian Europhile, about an afflicted Parisian woman who starts an affair with her gynaecologist</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWGGgZsVcAA9X6W?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="307" /></div><div><br /></div><div>35. THE PALIMPSESTS: Aleksandra Lun: Demented remix of literary history, especially of writers who write in languages other than their own; hugely daft, lots of fun</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWL0C-KU8AQCaqd?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>36. THE HOUSE OF HUNGER: Dambudzo Marechera: vivid, harrowing and linguistically acrobatic masterpiece of alienation about growing up in the slums of Harare; sadly Marechera was killed by alcoholism and AIDS by the age of 32</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWL0PwoUYAY91Zo?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>37. THE MEN'S CLUB: Leonard Michaels: hilarious and appalling, maybe the ultimate deconstruction of the delusions of the straight male, about a group of seven friends who decide, for reasons none of them are able to really articulate, to start a club for men</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWL19L1UEAAN0MP?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>38. THE TOTH FAMILY: István Örkény: a Hungarian family is terrorised by a deranged army major on leave, forced to become a cardboard box assembling operation in their own home (comes with another fine novella, THE FLOWER SHOW)</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWwpCzfXsAA_h5Y?format=png&name=360x360" /></div><div><br /></div><div>39. A RIOT OF GOLDFISH: Kanako Okamoto: wonderful 1937 novella about an obsessive goldfish breeder in love from a little-translated Japanese poet and scholar of Buddhism (and mother of artist Tarō Okamoto)</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWwpQ1fWsAIf1mV?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>40. SEVEN HANGED: Leonid Andreyev: appropriately grim novella of the last days of a group of Russian dissidents in Tsarist Russia; beautifully written, absolutely designed to sap your joie de vivre</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="435" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWwpzWAX0AAuCl_?format=jpg&name=small" width="300" /></div><div><br /></div><div>41. THE LAST WOLF: László Krasznahorkai: funny, obsessive, one-sentence novella about a man hired by mistake to write about Europe's last wild wolf; also a perfect introduction to a sometimes forbidding writer</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW_1VwpUYAAVbYF?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>42. THE EQUESTRIENNE: Uršuľa Kovalyk: late-Communist Czech-set black comedy of adolescence, female friendship and trick horse-riding</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW_183wUcAEuGJ9?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="286" /></div><div><br /></div><div>43. MADAME DE: Louise de Vilmorin: the story of a pair of diamond earrings and the betrayals and deceit they cause as they pass from person to person; a perfect, appropriately jewel-like miniature</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="348" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW_2gLsUcAEYJJu?format=jpg&name=small" width="252" /></div><div><br /></div><div>44. THE AWAKENING: Kate Chopin: probably ruined for many Americans by being forced on them in school, but this really is one of the most perfect short novels, about a woman undone by her quest for freedom and self-honesty</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="426" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXEgE-vUMAAWTl1?format=jpg&name=small" width="282" /></div><div><br /></div><div>45. MARY: Vladimir Nabokov: his first novel, a short and intense story of White Russian exiles in Berlin, nostalgia, erotic and romantic obsession, and a cunning plan</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXEgTa1U4AAtLcK?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="298" /></div><div><br /></div><div>46. TALKATIVE MAN: R K Narayan: a late, short novel in the Malgudi cycle, whose loquacious narrator tells the story of a mysterious man, allegedly part of some ill-defined UN project, who turns up at the railway station, takes over the waiting room, and refuses to leave</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="461" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXEhqjfU4AA9TGa?format=jpg&name=900x900" width="309" /></div><div><br /></div><div>47. COUP DE GRÂCE: Marguerite Yourcenar: more White Russians, plus a German aristocrat, a collapsing Baltic siege and a love triangle--something for everyone!</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXEhshTUEAIwKYk?format=jpg&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>48. ALL SAINTS' MOUNTAIN: Olga Tokarczuk: unsettling, excellent science-fiction novella by the Nobel laureate from last year who ISN'T a scumbag; free online (not in book form as yet): see it <a href="https://hazlitt.net/longreads/all-saints-mountain" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><img height="242" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1295464946642362375/21ShzD3n?format=jpg&name=small" width="347" /></div><div><br /></div><div>49. THREE YEARS: Anton Chekhov: picking one Chekhov is like choosing your favourite diamond from a vast trove of perfect diamonds, but this is as good as anything else he wrote--a subtle and brilliant "novel of Moscow life"</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXKLQ8KUYAAwgFb?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div>50. A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY: J L Carr: the ultimate piece of evidence that shows you don't need more than 84 pages to write an absolutely perfect novel--if you haven't read this then no wonder your life is a pointless, empty void</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXKQBZgUcAEUIGV?format=png&name=small" /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481855262445570" dir="auto" id="tweet_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">51. </span>AN OBSCURE MAN: Marguerite Yourcenar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Astonishingly convincing novella about a 17th-Century Dutchman, his travels, his loves and his failures. Found in this collection (also available as 'Two Stories and a Dream'), with its equally successful sequel novella, A LOVELY MORNING.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8-GvqUcAI8VMw.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8-GvqUcAI8VMw.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481861482582019" dir="auto" id="tweet_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481861482582019" dir="auto" id="tweet_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">52. </span>SICKLE: Ruth Lillegraven<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Verse novel encapsulating the whole life of a Norwegian man in the 1800s, and the life of the woman who is unlucky enough to marry him. Big themes, done with a delicately light touch.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8-s24VUAIy4Js.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8-s24VUAIy4Js.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 280px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481866658304000" dir="auto" id="tweet_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481866658304000" dir="auto" id="tweet_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">53. </span>AN UNTOUCHED HOUSE: W F Hermans<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It's the arse-end of WW2, you're an exhausted partisan fighting in the wreckage of Germany, and you find a beautiful, empty untouched house, an oasis of peace. What would you do to keep it for yourself?</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8_b4BUYAMFYcn.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8_b4BUYAMFYcn.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481871616036868" dir="auto" id="tweet_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481871616036868" dir="auto" id="tweet_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">54. </span>BLIND HUBER: Nick Flynn<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blind beekeeper, beekeeper's assistant, the hives of bees: all have their own voices in this wonderful connected collection of poems</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK9AReXVIAAnKuw.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK9AReXVIAAnKuw.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481876204539905" dir="auto" id="tweet_6" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481876204539905" dir="auto" id="tweet_6" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">55. </span>BRUGES-LA-MORTE: Georges Rodenbach<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A creepy, decaying city hosts a creepy, decaying man in mourning as he sinks into sexual obsession and murderousness. What's not to like?</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK9BCziVEAEgxZ6.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK9BCziVEAEgxZ6.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 308px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596812310286339" dir="auto" id="tweet_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596812310286339" dir="auto" id="tweet_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">56. </span>HIGHWAY WITH GREEN APPLES: Bae Suah<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A novella about a near-affectless young artist adrift in Seoul, switching seamlessly through different times of her life. Perhaps more straightforward than Suah's longer works, but showing most of her preoccupations and strengths.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-nEgCVEAUW9Gl.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-nEgCVEAUW9Gl.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 316px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596818714980359" dir="auto" id="tweet_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596818714980359" dir="auto" id="tweet_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">57. </span>ADDRESS UNKNOWN: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A very effective and nastily stinging brief novella of betrayal and revenge, told entirely through letters. One of the books which warned of the dangers of the Nazis and was inevitably ignored by the people who should have listened.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-n2Z7UcAMPkp4.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-n2Z7UcAMPkp4.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 266px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596825094516737" dir="auto" id="tweet_9" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596825094516737" dir="auto" id="tweet_9" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">58: THE MEMOIR OF AN ANTI-HERO: Kornel Filipowicz<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Passivity, resistance and collaboration in WW2 Poland; what is your life worth?</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-oGvUVQAEuBmU.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-oGvUVQAEuBmU.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 299px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596830756827139" dir="auto" id="tweet_10" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596830756827139" dir="auto" id="tweet_10" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">59. </span>THE STRANGE CASE OF EDWARD GOREY: Alexander Theroux<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A perfect argument for why there should be more brief biographies of eccentric people by masterful novelists.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-pCIEVUAAIDEw.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-pCIEVUAAIDEw.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 268px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596836427452417" dir="auto" id="tweet_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596836427452417" dir="auto" id="tweet_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">60. </span>NESS: Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rich and strange and incantatory and ominous and Bomb-shadowed. A terrible Black Mass is brewing, and five THINGS are coming across the sea to stop it.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-piM7VIAAkFw5.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-piM7VIAAkFw5.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 309px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877333133086720" dir="auto" id="tweet_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877333133086720" dir="auto" id="tweet_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">61. </span>MRS CALIBAN: Rachel Ingalls<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Just a perfect little novel about a neglected suburban housewife who falls in love with a swampy sea monster.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCmldYUcAA5cFT.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCmldYUcAA5cFT.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 502px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877339646918658" dir="auto" id="tweet_13" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877339646918658" dir="auto" id="tweet_13" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">62. </span>BOX HILL: Adam Mars-Jones<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Incredibly uncomfortable, weirdly comic novella about love, sex, and being used and abused. Alarming and excellent.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCm85dUYAU2OUi.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCm85dUYAU2OUi.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 380px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877346626240512" dir="auto" id="tweet_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877346626240512" dir="auto" id="tweet_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">63. </span>PEREIRA DECLARES: Antonio Tabbucchi<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(also published as PEREIRA MAINTAINS) Salazar's Portugal, a man trying to stand above the fray, a politicised encounter, a wonderful voice</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCnl5KVgAA5bv0.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCnl5KVgAA5bv0.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 295px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877352565690369" dir="auto" id="tweet_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877352565690369" dir="auto" id="tweet_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">64. </span>THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND: Anne Carson<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jealousy and sex and beauty and love filtered through the prism of Keats, in the form of a verse novella</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCoIjeUcAEh8uV.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCoIjeUcAEh8uV.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwVaq3WV3wxiF4wIPpGuRenlRn75Zeit1unGIjTs1-ivHnJTlEfDzsp7J2ZjnGyOhKG7_mfTO4QBV8ONIy8EbYotNaYRixq2Nh_6FgrkdO0WWLnoquuTdtD1UthnXOBt4WgazkGPaLzH3D09b49r1J5G677-1De96NejeQqsvxM9gOtRBjVrvr8djg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="289" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwVaq3WV3wxiF4wIPpGuRenlRn75Zeit1unGIjTs1-ivHnJTlEfDzsp7J2ZjnGyOhKG7_mfTO4QBV8ONIy8EbYotNaYRixq2Nh_6FgrkdO0WWLnoquuTdtD1UthnXOBt4WgazkGPaLzH3D09b49r1J5G677-1De96NejeQqsvxM9gOtRBjVrvr8djg=w257-h400" width="257" /></a></span></span></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCoIjeUcAEh8uV.png" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 3px;" /></span></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877358517080065" dir="auto" id="tweet_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">65. </span>RED SHIFT: Alan Garner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dialogue-driven linked stories of people on the run in three widely separated timezones (Roman Britain, English Civil War, 1970s) near the hill/castle/town of Mow Cop; strange and mad and wonderful</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLConNPVIAEfRWm.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLConNPVIAEfRWm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 299px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229257905115137" dir="auto" id="tweet_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229257905115137" dir="auto" id="tweet_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">66. </span>PLEASE, SIR!: Frigyes Karinthy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genuinely hilarious Hungarian satire on school life from the pupils' point of view. Impossible to find copies, but available online <a href="http://mek.oszk.hu/00700/00770/00770.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHmwrXVUAEHLAE.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHmwrXVUAEHLAE.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 527px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229262682398721" dir="auto" id="tweet_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229262682398721" dir="auto" id="tweet_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">67. </span>THE UNION JACK: Imre Kertész<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Another Hungarian, much less funny, but still wonderful: a man glimpses the Union Jack in the midst of the 1956 uprising, and it unleashes a contemplative mental spiral as the Soviet army prepares to invade.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHnJwCVcAE61-y.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHnJwCVcAE61-y.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 288px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229267560366081" dir="auto" id="tweet_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229267560366081" dir="auto" id="tweet_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">68. </span>AUGUST: Christa Wolf<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An orphaned young boy in a TB sanatorium in the winter of 1946, written in a single day. An absolute gem, perfectly polished.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHnsA5UUAI100C.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHnsA5UUAI100C.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 510px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229272060854272" dir="auto" id="tweet_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229272060854272" dir="auto" id="tweet_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">69. </span>NOMADS: Dave Hutchinson<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A group of people secretly living among us who are refugees from... something. A witty and clever example of why novellas are often the ideal length for science-fiction.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHoQBdVQAA1qrQ.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHoQBdVQAA1qrQ.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229277681233920" dir="auto" id="tweet_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229277681233920" dir="auto" id="tweet_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">70. </span>SEVERINA: Rodrigo Rey Rosa<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A bored bookseller falls in love/lust/obsession with a sexy young book thief. AND WHY WOULDN'T YOU?</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHo0xLVQAAm_oH.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHo0xLVQAAm_oH.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 314px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284037704777731" dir="auto" id="tweet_22" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284037704777731" dir="auto" id="tweet_22" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">71. </span>BULLFIGHT: Yasushi Inoue<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American-occupied postwar Japan, and the editor of a relatively sophisticated Osaka newspaper gets mixed up in a scheme by a crime figure to organise a bullfight tournament.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIYY5OUcAMFqR6.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIYY5OUcAMFqR6.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284042641473537" dir="auto" id="tweet_23" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284042641473537" dir="auto" id="tweet_23" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">72. </span>FAUST: Ivan Turgenev<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />How things can go wrong when trying to seduce a married woman by reading her Goethe's 'Faust' when that's one of the things her husband JUST WON'T DO. Books will ruin your life.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIZPsRVkAIOar_.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIZPsRVkAIOar_.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 304px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284047678820356" dir="auto" id="tweet_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284047678820356" dir="auto" id="tweet_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">73. </span>THE RED SOFA: Michèle Lesbre<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A woman on the way to Siberia, caught in a web of memories and emotions involving two old loves (one dead, one incommunicado), an old lady in her Parisian apartment, and the Russian landscape.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIZYukVgAQNRov.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIZYukVgAQNRov.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 299px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284052783296513" dir="auto" id="tweet_25" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284052783296513" dir="auto" id="tweet_25" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">74. </span>ON A RED STATION, DRIFTING: Aliette de Bodard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There aren't many extremely subtle novels of manners set on a space station in an alternative future where Vietname and China established Confucian galactic empires, and on this evidence that is a real shame.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIaPSQUcAQYHbj.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIaPSQUcAQYHbj.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284058176778240" dir="auto" id="tweet_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284058176778240" dir="auto" id="tweet_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">75. </span>THAT SMELL: Sonallah Ibrahim<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Modernist, semi-existentialist goodness about a recently released political prisoner roaming Cairo, lost in the changing Egypt, and spying on his neighbours while under house arrest.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIah8mUcAIBK_X.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIah8mUcAIBK_X.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 274px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588660461858816" dir="auto" id="tweet_27" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588660461858816" dir="auto" id="tweet_27" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">76. </span>THE EMBALMER: Anne-Renée Caillé<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Fragmented, oddly sweet story of someone interviewing her funeral worker father to capture all of his weird stories and strange workplace advice.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMtQcIVUAAud75.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMtQcIVUAAud75.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 273px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588665457344515" dir="auto" id="tweet_28" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588665457344515" dir="auto" id="tweet_28" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">77. </span>AMPHIBIAN: Christina Neuwirth<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The old story: you come to work; management slowly floods the workplace to improve productivity (improve sales or drown)</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMtx1xVIAQT5Ot.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMtx1xVIAQT5Ot.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 311px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588671992000513" dir="auto" id="tweet_29" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588671992000513" dir="auto" id="tweet_29" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">78. </span>GREAT GRANNY WEBSTER: Caroline Blackwood<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An absolutely monstrous matriarch rules over her house and her family in this pitch-perfect black comedy of nastiness in an Anglo-Irish Big House.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMuS0iUYAA6VdE.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMuS0iUYAA6VdE.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588677738237955" dir="auto" id="tweet_30" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588677738237955" dir="auto" id="tweet_30" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">79. </span>WITTGENSTEIN'S NEPHEW: Thomas Bernhard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Strange and sometimes almost sweet fictionalised memoir of the time a young Bernhard shared a hospital with his friend Paul, a nephew of Wittgenstein; Bernhard for his endlessly knackered lungs, Paul for mental illness</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMu1JuVgAIJ47U.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMu1JuVgAIJ47U.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 311px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588683283107840" dir="auto" id="tweet_31" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588683283107840" dir="auto" id="tweet_31" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">80. </span>MINE-HAHA: Frank Wedekind<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Pleasingly mental tale of a deeply weird boarding school for girls that focuses entirely on bodily movement before releasing its charges entirely ill-equipped into the adult world</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMvujNUcAA6ZHH.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMvujNUcAA6ZHH.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 306px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938272242585601" dir="auto" id="tweet_32" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938272242585601" dir="auto" id="tweet_32" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">81. </span>THE NIGHTMARE OF A VICTORIAN BESTSELLER: Brian Thompson<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Funny, scathing brief biography of the first book of self-help pablum and its faintly ridiculous author</span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938272242585601" dir="auto" id="tweet_32" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDb3_eiYr4mnpmF7ZNvB1d-0PMd7_DGT8R1vUSXPB3bliqBLA9Ef5GWuYQKjec8R8pSgLehalOdVvu-wNq9mNPwgUJMgN4N7cehDStIOsggBX9a75fzvsN8UhR3X7WPfWSgPU8MaBvem5PvoWJk9dI_vQeZDUdxms3f8tqs0sazwGV6_R7-b71m5db" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDb3_eiYr4mnpmF7ZNvB1d-0PMd7_DGT8R1vUSXPB3bliqBLA9Ef5GWuYQKjec8R8pSgLehalOdVvu-wNq9mNPwgUJMgN4N7cehDStIOsggBX9a75fzvsN8UhR3X7WPfWSgPU8MaBvem5PvoWJk9dI_vQeZDUdxms3f8tqs0sazwGV6_R7-b71m5db=w201-h320" width="201" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /><br /></span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRrLBrVcAUcTo0.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRrLBrVcAUcTo0.jpg" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 3px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938277703577602" dir="auto" id="tweet_33" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">82. </span>LOIS THE WITCH: Elizabeth Gaskell<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gaskell goes full-on Gothic in a bleak novella based on the Salem Witch Trials</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRrzgpVEAA2KcS.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRrzgpVEAA2KcS.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938283550482433" dir="auto" id="tweet_34" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938283550482433" dir="auto" id="tweet_34" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">83. </span>THE TIDINGS OF THE TREES: Wolfgang Hilbig<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The narrator surveys the ashy wasteland, haunted by the grisly "garbagemen", in this bleak novella of repressed history and the permanence of decay</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRsNO8VkAI-3Ru.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRsNO8VkAI-3Ru.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 307px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938291033071616" dir="auto" id="tweet_35" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938291033071616" dir="auto" id="tweet_35" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">84. </span>HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE: Marta Morazzoni<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A garden in Norway, the love and life's work of Haakon's mother. But now she has a young assistant, Felice, and Haakon is being pushed aside. The quietest power struggle in literature ensues.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRs9GXUUAAv_IL.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRs9GXUUAAv_IL.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938296481521665" dir="auto" id="tweet_36" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938296481521665" dir="auto" id="tweet_36" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">85. </span>ADVENTURES IN IMMEDIATE IRREALITY: Max Blecher<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />One of Blecher's several small masterpieces, a fictionalisation of his youth full of terrifying, visionary premonitions</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRtwhKVIAMukhi.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRtwhKVIAMukhi.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046143428685826" dir="auto" id="tweet_37" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046143428685826" dir="auto" id="tweet_37" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">86. </span>THE LIFECYCLE OF SOFTWARE OBJECTS: Ted Chiang<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Weirdly touching novella about consciousness, a sort of parenthood, AI and independence; available in the excellent EXHALATION collection.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhb8MbVUAU7QCi.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhb8MbVUAU7QCi.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046150919639040" dir="auto" id="tweet_38" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046150919639040" dir="auto" id="tweet_38" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">87. </span>CADAVER DOG: Luke Best<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Grim as grim verse novel about a massive flood and its psychological toll on a woman who stays put in her mostly submerged house</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhcaHbVQAEAeRp.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhcaHbVQAEAeRp.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 654px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046158075187200" dir="auto" id="tweet_39" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046158075187200" dir="auto" id="tweet_39" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">88. </span>RIPENING SEED: Colette<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The ultimate young-love-going-sour-but-also-French novel, one of her many compact masterpieces, almost all of which are shamefully out of print in English because we are unworthy</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhcklpVgAA5w5N.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhcklpVgAA5w5N.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046164362461185" dir="auto" id="tweet_40" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046164362461185" dir="auto" id="tweet_40" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">89. </span>NOSTALGIA HAS RUINED MY LIFE: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Extremely funny, extremely uncomfortable fragmented diary-like tale of a year in a NZ woman's ill-considered life</span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046164362461185" dir="auto" id="tweet_40" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHcfkhWucx2ngtyZ0wIJshrIxOB7eFrpuPqP8_SzT5eTgmJkbAe6Pf3Tq4LQuZMJ7MDvpaxdb5BMs-CtgRNY4PNwqcwbkP-0tclsB4lF_2E1kS9_h4KTa--dpZN0_epIy_tk9Z4dHUSO-JevjtuXDU1NkksYZQfYJ36wnSjknI-mgKzAALEcXZsqxj" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHcfkhWucx2ngtyZ0wIJshrIxOB7eFrpuPqP8_SzT5eTgmJkbAe6Pf3Tq4LQuZMJ7MDvpaxdb5BMs-CtgRNY4PNwqcwbkP-0tclsB4lF_2E1kS9_h4KTa--dpZN0_epIy_tk9Z4dHUSO-JevjtuXDU1NkksYZQfYJ36wnSjknI-mgKzAALEcXZsqxj=w283-h400" width="283" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /><br /></span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhc-QHUcAQvr63.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhc-QHUcAQvr63.png" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 3px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046169823449090" dir="auto" id="tweet_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">90. </span>THE FISH GIRL: Mirandi Riwoe<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Riwoe fleshes out a minor Malay character from one of Somerset Maugham's 'Far Eastern Tales', giving her a richly textured history and tragic life story</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhdPO5VkAMf94k.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhdPO5VkAMf94k.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 296px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477767119183875" dir="auto" id="tweet_42" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477767119183875" dir="auto" id="tweet_42" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">91. </span>THE SERVANT: Robin Maugham<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />See a man thoroughly manipulated, debased and destroyed! Lots of dark, seedy fun about power plays and switching roles.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnkqOpUcAUtCxm.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnkqOpUcAUtCxm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 327px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477771376427012" dir="auto" id="tweet_43" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477771376427012" dir="auto" id="tweet_43" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">92. </span>LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK: Nikolai Leskov<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A servant embarks and what to him is just another affair with a married woman, not realising the emotional storm and violence he's about to unleash. The title will give you some hints.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnlKrxVQAEXYNM.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnlKrxVQAEXYNM.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 306px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477776132763648" dir="auto" id="tweet_44" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477776132763648" dir="auto" id="tweet_44" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">93. </span>THE BROTHER: Rein Raud<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A stranger comes to town. All hell breaks loose.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(A deliberate attempt to do an Estonia "spaghetti Western", this succeeds in every way.)</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnlr1hUYAAKeJJ.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnlr1hUYAAKeJJ.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 307px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493486078329643009" dir="auto" id="tweet_45" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493486078329643009" dir="auto" id="tweet_45" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">94. </span>TODAY: David Miller<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Forster-channelling novella about the death of Joseph Conrad; beautifully observed only book by a writer who then sadly died himself.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLntO8MVEAQJMJj.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLntO8MVEAQJMJj.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 268px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493486082658160643" dir="auto" id="tweet_46" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493486082658160643" dir="auto" id="tweet_46" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">95. </span>JILLIAN: Halle Butler<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Deeply grim and funny workplace comedy about a terrible employee in a terrible workplace and her obsession with/loathing of her even more terrible office-mate.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLntgqZVUAI8zQs.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLntgqZVUAI8zQs.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 308px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801192303968265" dir="auto" id="tweet_47" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801192303968265" dir="auto" id="tweet_47" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">96. </span>THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER: Joseph Roth<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Strange, wondrous story of transcendence about a man drinking himself to death, written by a genius in the process of drinking himself to death</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsIFvlVUAMLm9f.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsIFvlVUAMLm9f.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801197664600072" dir="auto" id="tweet_48" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801197664600072" dir="auto" id="tweet_48" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">97. </span>EVERY EYE: Isobel English<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A woman on a train unravels the mystery of her life; a compact masterpiece admired by Muriel Spark, who was no stranger to compact masterpieces</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsJtlnVcAArlP8.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsJtlnVcAArlP8.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 353px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801202164797446" dir="auto" id="tweet_49" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801202164797446" dir="auto" id="tweet_49" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">98. </span>TRAVEL LIGHT: Naomi Mitchison<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Weird, vivid fairy-story-ish fantasy of exiled children, talking shapeshifting animals and the language of dragons.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsKYdIVIAMA6Ka.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsKYdIVIAMA6Ka.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 309px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801206677790721" dir="auto" id="tweet_50" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801206677790721" dir="auto" id="tweet_50" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">99. </span>THALIAD: Marly Youmans<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An origin story--a verse saga--of some future civilisation, drawn from the story of a group of children who (mostly) survive the fiery catastrophe that destroys ours.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsKtt7VIAEiMr7.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsKtt7VIAEiMr7.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801210846973955" dir="auto" id="tweet_51" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801210846973955" dir="auto" id="tweet_51" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">100. </span>THE DUEL: Giacomo Casanova<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ending this list with a second duel, this time in an autobiographical novella about two men (exiled Venetian, polish aristocrat) who end up in a battle of honour over a woman neither of them actually likes</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsLS5oVgAI-0qf.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsLS5oVgAI-0qf.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 297px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801213137018882" dir="auto" id="tweet_52" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsMPMZUYAIA3MS.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsMPMZUYAIA3MS.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 642px;" /></span></a></span></div><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)" face=""lucida grande", "lucida sans unicode", "lucida sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;">• • •</span> </span></span></p></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-12229925905524996312023-03-09T17:12:00.002-08:002023-03-09T17:15:12.205-08:00The Big Book of Unfortunate Author Deaths<p>(I transplanted <a href="https://twitter.com/Unwise_Trousers/status/1633596502068330496" target="_blank">this thread I made</a> over from Twitter to keep it in a more readable form)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiicVl9_6chMJPc8_mzFmpZLbZ8mWSXRTKRd5K5LP3PNCTE9iXmZ95IY5n7eLKbZXJPKG6WnVvz-5RaFtfJYp5VwxVxJrV2_oNSsapsuMBDLWrUo76XaVd8SDIwXjiGwpBR0hFYSH7_QxeyRoEqwBa41zW03peacpap7bCAyD1IGE_js8rkDs1c9Bft/s680/FquuINMakAATxp_%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="680" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiicVl9_6chMJPc8_mzFmpZLbZ8mWSXRTKRd5K5LP3PNCTE9iXmZ95IY5n7eLKbZXJPKG6WnVvz-5RaFtfJYp5VwxVxJrV2_oNSsapsuMBDLWrUo76XaVd8SDIwXjiGwpBR0hFYSH7_QxeyRoEqwBa41zW03peacpap7bCAyD1IGE_js8rkDs1c9Bft/w400-h399/FquuINMakAATxp_%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><br /><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596502068330496" dir="auto" id="tweet_1" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: lato, sans-serif; font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-top: 20px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 1.7rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">The Big Book of Unfortunate Author Deaths</span></div><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596506958864385" dir="auto" id="tweet_2" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sherwood Anderson: swallowed a toothpick which punched holes in his innards, leading to lethal peritonitis.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquuMmraMAEhJCi.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquuMmraMAEhJCi.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596511601967104" dir="auto" id="tweet_3" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ödön von Horváth, hit by a falling branch from a tree and killed during a thunderstorm, three days after writing a poem about being scared of storms.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquuoowaMAAwQHV.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquuoowaMAAwQHV.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596516425437185" dir="auto" id="tweet_4" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Francis Bacon, killed by pneumonia contracted after an experiment in freezing a dead chicken with snow.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquuzMDaEAAWewt.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquuzMDaEAAWewt.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596522016407554" dir="auto" id="tweet_5" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tennessee Williams pulled open a pill bottle with his teeth and accidentally inhaled it, choking to death (massive amounts of Seconal in his system inhibited his gag reflex).<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fquv64jagAAdAQm.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fquv64jagAAdAQm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 230px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596526911197184" dir="auto" id="tweet_6" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Georgi Markov, assassinated in London street via a tiny pellet of toxic ricin, fired into his leg from an umbrella wielded by someone associated with the Bulgarian Secret Service.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fquwf-9agAMfJXA.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fquwf-9agAMfJXA.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 202px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596531290050560" dir="auto" id="tweet_7" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Margaret Wise Brown, in hospital for an ovarian cyst, kicked her foot in the air to prove how healthy she was after treatment, dislodging a blood clot in her leg. The blood clot quickly travelled to her brain, and she died in emergency surgery.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquxH0GaYAEwPdG.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquxH0GaYAEwPdG.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596537124306946" dir="auto" id="tweet_8" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Molière suffered a pulmonary haemorrhage caused by tuberculosis, while playing the part of a hypochondriac in his own play 'Le malade imaginaire'.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquxWD8acAEYSN-.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquxWD8acAEYSN-.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 425px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596543256367104" dir="auto" id="tweet_9" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Boris Vian, enraged at a screening of the movie of his 'I Spit on Your Graves', yelled "These guys are supposed to be American? My ass!" and then collapsed and died from a heart attack.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquxiCraEAAnzE5.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquxiCraEAAnzE5.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596549086474240" dir="auto" id="tweet_10" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bruno Schulz, murdered in revenge by a Gestapo officer after Schulz's own Gestapo protector killed the first Gestapo officer's "personal Jew".<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquynTTacAAEpzL.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FquynTTacAAEpzL.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596555331776512" dir="auto" id="tweet_11" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Pietro Aretino, died from either a heart attack or fractured skull after laughing too much and falling off his chair on hearing a dirty joke.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fquy7fBaAAIcEA3.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fquy7fBaAAIcEA3.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633596561358999552" dir="auto" id="tweet_12" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /><span class="tw-permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633634063423782912" dir="auto" id="tweet_13" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="btn-mentions" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; line-height: 1.4rem; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span color="inherit" style="font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Saki: </span><span style="font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, times new roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: -0.057px;">‘Put out that bloody cigarette!’ - the last words of Hector Hugh Munro, a British author who wrote under the pen name Saki. In November 1916 while sheltering in a shell crater in France, during the Battle of the Ancre, he was killed by a German sniper.</span></span></a><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvVhANaMAAcUQj.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvVhANaMAAcUQj.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633634384145420288" dir="auto" id="tweet_14" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Robert Louis Stevenson, while making mayonnaise, suddenly cried out "What's that? Do I look strange? My head, my head!" and dropped dead of a cerebral haemorrhage.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvVzcqaYAAxneJ.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvVzcqaYAAxneJ.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633637823868964869" dir="auto" id="tweet_15" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Nikolai Gogol put himself to bed and refused food, thus dying of starvation, in huge amounts of pain, after nine days.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvWMVmaUAEzIto.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvWMVmaUAEzIto.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633637827467689984" dir="auto" id="tweet_16" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Yukio Mishima, disembowelled himself at the conclusion of an incredibly ill-conceived and failed political coup; the devotee who was supposed to simultaneously cut his head off fucked the job up and failed despite several tries.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvWiTuagAAoydI.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvWiTuagAAoydI.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633637831917867008" dir="auto" id="tweet_17" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Barbara Salinas Norman was found naturally mummified in the dry heat of her New Mexico home, her corpse having gone undiscovered for up to a year.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvXEJbaIAA_VKg.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvXEJbaIAA_VKg.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 343px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633637835579457537" dir="auto" id="tweet_18" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Thomas Merton, electrocuted adjusting an electric fan while in the bath (though strange injuries to the back of his head were never investigated).<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvXfi_aYAEPj6a.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvXfi_aYAEPj6a.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633637838767157249" dir="auto" id="tweet_19" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Aeschylus: eagle, turtle, skull<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvX5TzakAAwB2J.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvX5TzakAAwB2J.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 455px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633637842823036928" dir="auto" id="tweet_20" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Orhan Veli Kanık, fell down an open manhole, seemed uninjured, then died two days later of a brain aneurysm.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvYKVxaYAEFC0C.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvYKVxaYAEFC0C.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 609px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633637846753087489" dir="auto" id="tweet_21" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dan Andersson, accidentally exterminated along with the bedbugs in a Stockholm hotel pest eradication using cyanide gas.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvYhOZaUAEsrhF.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvYhOZaUAEsrhF.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 227px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633637851165253633" dir="auto" id="tweet_22" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Géza Csáth, murdered his wife with a gun, poisoned himself and slit his arteries. He was rushed to hospital, but escaped. He tried to go to a different hospital, but, upon being stopped by border guards, he poisoned himself AGAIN, this time successfully.</span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633645350232944641" dir="auto" id="tweet_23" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvfZYcaAAAAQBm.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvfZYcaAAAAQBm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 202px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633647569674059776" dir="auto" id="tweet_24" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Bohumil Hrabal, died from a fall from fifth-floor hospital window, (erroneously?) attributed to an attempt to feed pigeons.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvgJ81aAAEm4aA.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvgJ81aAAEm4aA.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633647573146959873" dir="auto" id="tweet_25" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Horacio Quiroga, afflicted by horrific prostate pain, killed himself with cyanide in the presence of his new best friend, Vicent Batistessa, an "elephant man" whom he had successfully freed from the hospital basement.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvhUO3aUAA3xSb.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvhUO3aUAA3xSb.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 227px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633647576061988864" dir="auto" id="tweet_26" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Rosario Castellanos, electrocuted by a telephone while still wet from the shower (though suicide is suspected by some). (with thanks to <a class="entity-mention" href="https://twitter.com/nadienadianadie" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">@nadienadianadie</a>, who brought this to my attention)<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvhZdHacAAXVbW.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqvhZdHacAAXVbW.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 230px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633647578985426945" dir="auto" id="tweet_27" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Richard Fariña, 2 days after his only novel was published, was shredded going through a barbed-wire fence while riding as a passenger on an out-of-control motorbike doing 90mph.</span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633672979984031744" dir="auto" id="tweet_28" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv1Q_FakAAT4CQ.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv1Q_FakAAT4CQ.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633672983398191104" dir="auto" id="tweet_29" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Frank O'Hara, killed by an illegal dune buggy on the beach after the car he was in broke down on the dark (his liver was fatally ruptured in the impact).<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv11WIaMAAPbVK.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv11WIaMAAPbVK.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633672987395366912" dir="auto" id="tweet_30" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">William "Henry Root" Donaldson, found dead with his trousers around his ankles, having suffered a massive heart attack while looking at internet porn.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv2GFlagAArT5-.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv2GFlagAArT5-.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633672990906023941" dir="auto" id="tweet_31" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Evelyn Waugh, died of a heart attack while sitting on the toilet.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv2YazaEAATP7u.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv2YazaEAATP7u.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633672993720377347" dir="auto" id="tweet_32" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv2399agAAMLXh.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv2399agAAMLXh.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 292px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633672996635439105" dir="auto" id="tweet_33" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Joe Orton, bludgeoned to death by his lover, and fellow vandal of library books, Kenneth Halliwell.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv3apBacAYj-yL.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv3apBacAYj-yL.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633673000116707331" dir="auto" id="tweet_34" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Pier Paolo Pasolini, found run over several times by his own car, numerous bones and his testicles crushed by an iron bar, and his body doused with petrol and partially burned after his death. The identity of the perpetrator(s) is disputed.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv4P9BaEAAKiHu.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv4P9BaEAAKiHu.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633673003707027456" dir="auto" id="tweet_35" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Donald Goines, along with his wife, was murdered by multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and head. The book placed in his coffin by a relative was stolen before burial.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv4cRdaUAQYRXC.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv4cRdaUAQYRXC.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633673007536435201" dir="auto" id="tweet_36" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ambrose Bierce, vanished into fucking thin air.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv4yf1aUAA9WLY.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqv4yf1aUAA9WLY.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633673010623442946" dir="auto" id="tweet_37" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Edna St. Vincent Millay, broke her neck falling down stairs.</span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633694463074910209" dir="auto" id="tweet_38" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwJv9VaMAI_TnL.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwJv9VaMAI_TnL.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633694466992381952" dir="auto" id="tweet_39" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Aldous Huxley, died tripping out of his scone on LSD while suffering terminal cancer pain, the final LSD injection having been administered at almost exactly the same moment JFK was shot in Dallas.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwJ67gaEAUWq8b.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwJ67gaEAUWq8b.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633694473933946881" dir="auto" id="tweet_40" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Rupert Brooke, killed by an infected mosquito bite.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwKZ7baEAAPAoG.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwKZ7baEAAPAoG.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633694477952122881" dir="auto" id="tweet_41" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Pierre François Lacenaire, a murderer as well as a poet, died by the guillotine, on the SECOND attempt.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwKgqoaMAEidVl.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwKgqoaMAEidVl.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633694481001357312" dir="auto" id="tweet_42" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Malcolm Lowry, whether it was suicide, murder or accident (all possibilities), died of inhaling his own vomit while also full of booze and pills.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwLNV2aIAEGZry.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwLNV2aIAEGZry.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633694484511993856" dir="auto" id="tweet_43" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Emile Zola, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning attributed to an unventilated chimney, though a series of careful tests afterwards showed the chimney to be absolutely fine.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwMFJqaYAA2I3d.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwMFJqaYAA2I3d.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 222px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633694487544500226" dir="auto" id="tweet_44" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em;">Mihail Sebastian, who managed to survive WW2 (some of it in hiding) only to be hit and killed by a lorry on 29 May 1945 on his way to deliver a lecture on Balzac.</span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633733571323236355" dir="auto" id="tweet_45" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqwt9rMacAEoC44.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqwt9rMacAEoC44.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633733574443794432" dir="auto" id="tweet_46" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">After his death, a doctor removed Thomas Hardy's heart. Thomas Hardy's cat then raided the tin it was placed in and ate it. The undertaker then strangled the cat and interred the body with the rest of Hardy.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwwAbMaUAAkasz.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwwAbMaUAAkasz.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 402px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633737057054130176" dir="auto" id="tweet_47" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dylan Thomas, having been on a massive bender, was then administered a dangerous amount of morphine by a hotel doctor, which put him into a fatal coma. "I've had 18 straight whiskies. I think that's the record," were his last words.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwzMS8aAAAEHu9.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqwzMS8aAAAEHu9.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 187px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1633739050489368577" dir="auto" id="tweet_48" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Gustav Kobbé, a keen sailor, was killed in the waters off New York when a seaplane landed on him.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqw0nWsakAAmuJe.png" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqw0nWsakAAmuJe.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 602px;" /></span></a></span></div><p class="text-center" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lucida grande", "lucida sans unicode", "lucida sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">• • •</p><p><br /></p>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-5811233254503727712023-02-01T21:30:00.006-08:002023-02-01T21:30:58.240-08:00Books of 2022<p>For the second year in a row, the mighty Dorian Stuber was kind enough to ask me to write about my favourite books of the past year at his blog. <a href="https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2023/01/23/james-morrisons-year-in-reading-2022/" target="_blank">So I did</a>.</p><p>Books discussed (click to enlarge):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTU7XIRoLpu7-sJZhLbeUHufbIDeLvGLMQGhU96mxJ0NooYm8r3dBKhWnQxhACgQ92Qmzmq7XUGDipOTW_0axpo790YgLjLSDg2Xha7JL2mKLUao8t1rHcvCxRmd-QgBLCgiGqqosRLwNM0MTN4-_BA-4m5_dtT5XzbbN8-n2LoX3yvkFsqCiee1SF/s878/2022%20BOOKS%20GRAPHIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="878" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTU7XIRoLpu7-sJZhLbeUHufbIDeLvGLMQGhU96mxJ0NooYm8r3dBKhWnQxhACgQ92Qmzmq7XUGDipOTW_0axpo790YgLjLSDg2Xha7JL2mKLUao8t1rHcvCxRmd-QgBLCgiGqqosRLwNM0MTN4-_BA-4m5_dtT5XzbbN8-n2LoX3yvkFsqCiee1SF/w400-h388/2022%20BOOKS%20GRAPHIC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-56527537986705474122022-10-19T00:41:00.001-07:002022-10-19T00:41:14.099-07:00GIBBONS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxr57ZHEHQ2lmHmj9xumpUqIgxCYYEZr3PFLllQO0u7Bs31GFnEoimKxgn7bsgotNrNV5SG98miL2yZHMPh8g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p>My book, GIBBONS, being the discontinuous narrative of an Australian family in short stories, including glass eyes, false mermaids, inadvertent death, nuclear weapons and the accidental destruction of the Sydney Opera House, coming in 2023 from <a href="https://orbistertiuspress.ca/" target="_blank">Orbis Tertius Press</a>. </p>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-15920476185698476902022-10-18T18:40:00.002-07:002022-10-18T18:41:04.189-07:00All Crime Novels Must Look Like This<p>I'm sorry, but only crime novels featuring a dark house with a yellow light and some yellow text will be considered for publication from now on.</p><p><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white;"></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: black;"><br />As a suggestion, if you're looking for an attractive edition of the story, try the one illustrated by <span style="font-family: starling, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/art-now-david-musgrave" target="_blank">David Musgrave</a></span><span style="font-family: starling, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">, published as part of the </span><a href="http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2009/01/four-corners.html" style="font-family: starling, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Four Corners Familiars series</a><span style="font-family: starling, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: starling, "Times New Roman", serif; 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<div><br /></div><div>Click through for actually not-tiny full-screen versions!</div></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-48776280687794827382022-02-15T20:26:00.003-08:002022-02-15T20:26:52.647-08:0050 MORE Short Excellent Books You Can Read in One Hit in Isolation<div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481855262445570" dir="auto" id="tweet_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;">(A follow-up to <a href="http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2020/08/50-short-excellent-books-you-can-read.html" target="_blank">this post</a>, derived from <a href="https://twitter.com/Unwise_Trousers/status/1490478154225381378" target="_blank">this thread</a>...)</span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481855262445570" dir="auto" id="tweet_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481855262445570" dir="auto" id="tweet_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">51. </span>AN OBSCURE MAN: Marguerite Yourcenar<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Astonishingly convincing novella about a 17th-Century Dutchman, his travels, his loves and his failures. Found in this collection (also available as 'Two Stories and a Dream'), with its equally successful sequel novella, A LOVELY MORNING.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8-GvqUcAI8VMw.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8-GvqUcAI8VMw.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481861482582019" dir="auto" id="tweet_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481861482582019" dir="auto" id="tweet_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">52. </span>SICKLE: Ruth Lillegraven<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Verse novel encapsulating the whole life of a Norwegian man in the 1800s, and the life of the woman who is unlucky enough to marry him. Big themes, done with a delicately light touch.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8-s24VUAIy4Js.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8-s24VUAIy4Js.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 280px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481866658304000" dir="auto" id="tweet_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481866658304000" dir="auto" id="tweet_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">53. </span>AN UNTOUCHED HOUSE: W F Hermans<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It's the arse-end of WW2, you're an exhausted partisan fighting in the wreckage of Germany, and you find a beautiful, empty untouched house, an oasis of peace. What would you do to keep it for yourself?</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8_b4BUYAMFYcn.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK8_b4BUYAMFYcn.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481871616036868" dir="auto" id="tweet_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481871616036868" dir="auto" id="tweet_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">54. </span>BLIND HUBER: Nick Flynn<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blind beekeeper, beekeeper's assistant, the hives of bees: all have their own voices in this wonderful connected collection of poems</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK9AReXVIAAnKuw.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK9AReXVIAAnKuw.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481876204539905" dir="auto" id="tweet_6" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490481876204539905" dir="auto" id="tweet_6" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">55. </span>BRUGES-LA-MORTE: Georges Rodenbach<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A creepy, decaying city hosts a creepy, decaying man in mourning as he sinks into sexual obsession and murderousness. What's not to like?</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK9BCziVEAEgxZ6.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK9BCziVEAEgxZ6.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 308px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596812310286339" dir="auto" id="tweet_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596812310286339" dir="auto" id="tweet_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">56. </span>HIGHWAY WITH GREEN APPLES: Bae Suah<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A novella about a near-affectless young artist adrift in Seoul, switching seamlessly through different times of her life. Perhaps more straightforward than Suah's longer works, but showing most of her preoccupations and strengths.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-nEgCVEAUW9Gl.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-nEgCVEAUW9Gl.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 316px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596818714980359" dir="auto" id="tweet_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596818714980359" dir="auto" id="tweet_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">57. </span>ADDRESS UNKNOWN: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A very effective and nastily stinging brief novella of betrayal and revenge, told entirely through letters. One of the books which warned of the dangers of the Nazis and was inevitably ignored by the people who should have listened.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-n2Z7UcAMPkp4.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-n2Z7UcAMPkp4.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 266px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596825094516737" dir="auto" id="tweet_9" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596825094516737" dir="auto" id="tweet_9" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">58: THE MEMOIR OF AN ANTI-HERO: Kornel Filipowicz<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Passivity, resistance and collaboration in WW2 Poland; what is your life worth?</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-oGvUVQAEuBmU.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-oGvUVQAEuBmU.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 299px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596830756827139" dir="auto" id="tweet_10" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596830756827139" dir="auto" id="tweet_10" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">59. </span>THE STRANGE CASE OF EDWARD GOREY: Alexander Theroux<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A perfect argument for why there should be more brief biographies of eccentric people by masterful novelists.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-pCIEVUAAIDEw.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-pCIEVUAAIDEw.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 268px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596836427452417" dir="auto" id="tweet_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490596836427452417" dir="auto" id="tweet_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">60. </span>NESS: Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rich and strange and incantatory and ominous and Bomb-shadowed. A terrible Black Mass is brewing, and five THINGS are coming across the sea to stop it.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-piM7VIAAkFw5.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK-piM7VIAAkFw5.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 309px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877333133086720" dir="auto" id="tweet_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877333133086720" dir="auto" id="tweet_12" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">61. </span>MRS CALIBAN: Rachel Ingalls<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Just a perfect little novel about a neglected suburban housewife who falls in love with a swampy sea monster.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCmldYUcAA5cFT.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCmldYUcAA5cFT.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 502px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877339646918658" dir="auto" id="tweet_13" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877339646918658" dir="auto" id="tweet_13" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">62. </span>BOX HILL: Adam Mars-Jones<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Incredibly uncomfortable, weirdly comic novella about love, sex, and being used and abused. Alarming and excellent.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCm85dUYAU2OUi.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCm85dUYAU2OUi.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 380px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877346626240512" dir="auto" id="tweet_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877346626240512" dir="auto" id="tweet_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">63. </span>PEREIRA DECLARES: Antonio Tabbucchi<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(also published as PEREIRA MAINTAINS) Salazar's Portugal, a man trying to stand above the fray, a politicised encounter, a wonderful voice</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCnl5KVgAA5bv0.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCnl5KVgAA5bv0.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 295px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877352565690369" dir="auto" id="tweet_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877352565690369" dir="auto" id="tweet_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">64. </span>THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND: Anne Carson<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jealousy and sex and beauty and love filtered through the prism of Keats, in the form of a verse novella</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCoIjeUcAEh8uV.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCoIjeUcAEh8uV.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwVaq3WV3wxiF4wIPpGuRenlRn75Zeit1unGIjTs1-ivHnJTlEfDzsp7J2ZjnGyOhKG7_mfTO4QBV8ONIy8EbYotNaYRixq2Nh_6FgrkdO0WWLnoquuTdtD1UthnXOBt4WgazkGPaLzH3D09b49r1J5G677-1De96NejeQqsvxM9gOtRBjVrvr8djg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="289" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwVaq3WV3wxiF4wIPpGuRenlRn75Zeit1unGIjTs1-ivHnJTlEfDzsp7J2ZjnGyOhKG7_mfTO4QBV8ONIy8EbYotNaYRixq2Nh_6FgrkdO0WWLnoquuTdtD1UthnXOBt4WgazkGPaLzH3D09b49r1J5G677-1De96NejeQqsvxM9gOtRBjVrvr8djg=w257-h400" width="257" /></a></span></span></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLCoIjeUcAEh8uV.png" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 3px;" /></span></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1490877358517080065" dir="auto" id="tweet_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">65. </span>RED SHIFT: Alan Garner<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dialogue-driven linked stories of people on the run in three widely separated timezones (Roman Britain, English Civil War, 1970s) near the hill/castle/town of Mow Cop; strange and mad and wonderful</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLConNPVIAEfRWm.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLConNPVIAEfRWm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 299px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229257905115137" dir="auto" id="tweet_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229257905115137" dir="auto" id="tweet_17" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">66. </span>PLEASE, SIR!: Frigyes Karinthy<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Genuinely hilarious Hungarian satire on school life from the pupils' point of view. Impossible to find copies, but available online <a href="http://mek.oszk.hu/00700/00770/00770.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHmwrXVUAEHLAE.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHmwrXVUAEHLAE.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 527px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229262682398721" dir="auto" id="tweet_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229262682398721" dir="auto" id="tweet_18" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">67. </span>THE UNION JACK: Imre Kertész<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Another Hungarian, much less funny, but still wonderful: a man glimpses the Union Jack in the midst of the 1956 uprising, and it unleashes a contemplative mental spiral as the Soviet army prepares to invade.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHnJwCVcAE61-y.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHnJwCVcAE61-y.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 288px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229267560366081" dir="auto" id="tweet_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229267560366081" dir="auto" id="tweet_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">68. </span>AUGUST: Christa Wolf<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An orphaned young boy in a TB sanatorium in the winter of 1946, written in a single day. An absolute gem, perfectly polished.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHnsA5UUAI100C.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHnsA5UUAI100C.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 510px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229272060854272" dir="auto" id="tweet_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229272060854272" dir="auto" id="tweet_20" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">69. </span>NOMADS: Dave Hutchinson<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A group of people secretly living among us who are refugees from... something. A witty and clever example of why novellas are often the ideal length for science-fiction.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHoQBdVQAA1qrQ.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHoQBdVQAA1qrQ.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229277681233920" dir="auto" id="tweet_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491229277681233920" dir="auto" id="tweet_21" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">70. </span>SEVERINA: Rodrigo Rey Rosa<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A bored bookseller falls in love/lust/obsession with a sexy young book thief. AND WHY WOULDN'T YOU?</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHo0xLVQAAm_oH.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLHo0xLVQAAm_oH.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 314px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284037704777731" dir="auto" id="tweet_22" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284037704777731" dir="auto" id="tweet_22" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">71. </span>BULLFIGHT: Yasushi Inoue<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />American-occupied postwar Japan, and the editor of a relatively sophisticated Osaka newspaper gets mixed up in a scheme by a crime figure to organise a bullfight tournament.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIYY5OUcAMFqR6.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIYY5OUcAMFqR6.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284042641473537" dir="auto" id="tweet_23" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284042641473537" dir="auto" id="tweet_23" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">72. </span>FAUST: Ivan Turgenev<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />How things can go wrong when trying to seduce a married woman by reading her Goethe's 'Faust' when that's one of the things her husband JUST WON'T DO. Books will ruin your life.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIZPsRVkAIOar_.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIZPsRVkAIOar_.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 304px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284047678820356" dir="auto" id="tweet_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284047678820356" dir="auto" id="tweet_24" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">73. </span>THE RED SOFA: Michèle Lesbre<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A woman on the way to Siberia, caught in a web of memories and emotions involving two old loves (one dead, one incommunicado), an old lady in her Parisian apartment, and the Russian landscape.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIZYukVgAQNRov.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIZYukVgAQNRov.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 299px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284052783296513" dir="auto" id="tweet_25" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284052783296513" dir="auto" id="tweet_25" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">74. </span>ON A RED STATION, DRIFTING: Aliette de Bodard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There aren't many extremely subtle novels of manners set on a space station in an alternative future where Vietname and China established Confucian galactic empires, and on this evidence that is a real shame.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIaPSQUcAQYHbj.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIaPSQUcAQYHbj.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 320px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284058176778240" dir="auto" id="tweet_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491284058176778240" dir="auto" id="tweet_26" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">75. </span>THAT SMELL: Sonallah Ibrahim<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Modernist, semi-existentialist goodness about a recently released political prisoner roaming Cairo, lost in the changing Egypt, and spying on his neighbours while under house arrest.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIah8mUcAIBK_X.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIah8mUcAIBK_X.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 274px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588660461858816" dir="auto" id="tweet_27" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588660461858816" dir="auto" id="tweet_27" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">76. </span>THE EMBALMER: Anne-Renée Caillé<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Fragmented, oddly sweet story of someone interviewing her funeral worker father to capture all of his weird stories and strange workplace advice.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMtQcIVUAAud75.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMtQcIVUAAud75.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 273px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588665457344515" dir="auto" id="tweet_28" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588665457344515" dir="auto" id="tweet_28" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">77. </span>AMPHIBIAN: Christina Neuwirth<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The old story: you come to work; management slowly floods the workplace to improve productivity (improve sales or drown)</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMtx1xVIAQT5Ot.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMtx1xVIAQT5Ot.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 311px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588671992000513" dir="auto" id="tweet_29" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588671992000513" dir="auto" id="tweet_29" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">78. </span>GREAT GRANNY WEBSTER: Caroline Blackwood<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An absolutely monstrous matriarch rules over her house and her family in this pitch-perfect black comedy of nastiness in an Anglo-Irish Big House.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMuS0iUYAA6VdE.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMuS0iUYAA6VdE.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588677738237955" dir="auto" id="tweet_30" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588677738237955" dir="auto" id="tweet_30" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">79. </span>WITTGENSTEIN'S NEPHEW: Thomas Bernhard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Strange and sometimes almost sweet fictionalised memoir of the time a young Bernhard shared a hospital with his friend Paul, a nephew of Wittgenstein; Bernhard for his endlessly knackered lungs, Paul for mental illness</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMu1JuVgAIJ47U.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMu1JuVgAIJ47U.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 311px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588683283107840" dir="auto" id="tweet_31" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491588683283107840" dir="auto" id="tweet_31" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">80. </span>MINE-HAHA: Frank Wedekind<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Pleasingly mental tale of a deeply weird boarding school for girls that focuses entirely on bodily movement before releasing its charges entirely ill-equipped into the adult world</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMvujNUcAA6ZHH.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLMvujNUcAA6ZHH.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 306px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938272242585601" dir="auto" id="tweet_32" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938272242585601" dir="auto" id="tweet_32" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">81. </span>THE NIGHTMARE OF A VICTORIAN BESTSELLER: Brian Thompson<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Funny, scathing brief biography of the first book of self-help pablum and its faintly ridiculous author</span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938272242585601" dir="auto" id="tweet_32" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDb3_eiYr4mnpmF7ZNvB1d-0PMd7_DGT8R1vUSXPB3bliqBLA9Ef5GWuYQKjec8R8pSgLehalOdVvu-wNq9mNPwgUJMgN4N7cehDStIOsggBX9a75fzvsN8UhR3X7WPfWSgPU8MaBvem5PvoWJk9dI_vQeZDUdxms3f8tqs0sazwGV6_R7-b71m5db" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDb3_eiYr4mnpmF7ZNvB1d-0PMd7_DGT8R1vUSXPB3bliqBLA9Ef5GWuYQKjec8R8pSgLehalOdVvu-wNq9mNPwgUJMgN4N7cehDStIOsggBX9a75fzvsN8UhR3X7WPfWSgPU8MaBvem5PvoWJk9dI_vQeZDUdxms3f8tqs0sazwGV6_R7-b71m5db=w201-h320" width="201" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /><br /></span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRrLBrVcAUcTo0.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRrLBrVcAUcTo0.jpg" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 3px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938277703577602" dir="auto" id="tweet_33" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">82. </span>LOIS THE WITCH: Elizabeth Gaskell<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Gaskell goes full-on Gothic in a bleak novella based on the Salem Witch Trials</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRrzgpVEAA2KcS.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRrzgpVEAA2KcS.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938283550482433" dir="auto" id="tweet_34" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938283550482433" dir="auto" id="tweet_34" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">83. </span>THE TIDINGS OF THE TREES: Wolfgang Hilbig<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The narrator surveys the ashy wasteland, haunted by the grisly "garbagemen", in this bleak novella of repressed history and the permanence of decay</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRsNO8VkAI-3Ru.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRsNO8VkAI-3Ru.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 307px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938291033071616" dir="auto" id="tweet_35" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938291033071616" dir="auto" id="tweet_35" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">84. </span>HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE: Marta Morazzoni<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A garden in Norway, the love and life's work of Haakon's mother. But now she has a young assistant, Felice, and Haakon is being pushed aside. The quietest power struggle in literature ensues.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRs9GXUUAAv_IL.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRs9GXUUAAv_IL.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938296481521665" dir="auto" id="tweet_36" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1491938296481521665" dir="auto" id="tweet_36" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">85. </span>ADVENTURES IN IMMEDIATE IRREALITY: Max Blecher<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />One of Blecher's several small masterpieces, a fictionalisation of his youth full of terrifying, visionary premonitions</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRtwhKVIAMukhi.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLRtwhKVIAMukhi.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046143428685826" dir="auto" id="tweet_37" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046143428685826" dir="auto" id="tweet_37" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">86. </span>THE LIFECYCLE OF SOFTWARE OBJECTS: Ted Chiang<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Weirdly touching novella about consciousness, a sort of parenthood, AI and independence; available in the excellent EXHALATION collection.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhb8MbVUAU7QCi.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhb8MbVUAU7QCi.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046150919639040" dir="auto" id="tweet_38" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046150919639040" dir="auto" id="tweet_38" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">87. </span>CADAVER DOG: Luke Best<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Grim as grim verse novel about a massive flood and its psychological toll on a woman who stays put in her mostly submerged house</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhcaHbVQAEAeRp.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhcaHbVQAEAeRp.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 654px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046158075187200" dir="auto" id="tweet_39" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046158075187200" dir="auto" id="tweet_39" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">88. </span>RIPENING SEED: Colette<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The ultimate young-love-going-sour-but-also-French novel, one of her many compact masterpieces, almost all of which are shamefully out of print in English because we are unworthy</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhcklpVgAA5w5N.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhcklpVgAA5w5N.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046164362461185" dir="auto" id="tweet_40" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046164362461185" dir="auto" id="tweet_40" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">89. </span>NOSTALGIA HAS RUINED MY LIFE: Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Extremely funny, extremely uncomfortable fragmented diary-like tale of a year in a NZ woman's ill-considered life</span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046164362461185" dir="auto" id="tweet_40" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHcfkhWucx2ngtyZ0wIJshrIxOB7eFrpuPqP8_SzT5eTgmJkbAe6Pf3Tq4LQuZMJ7MDvpaxdb5BMs-CtgRNY4PNwqcwbkP-0tclsB4lF_2E1kS9_h4KTa--dpZN0_epIy_tk9Z4dHUSO-JevjtuXDU1NkksYZQfYJ36wnSjknI-mgKzAALEcXZsqxj" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHcfkhWucx2ngtyZ0wIJshrIxOB7eFrpuPqP8_SzT5eTgmJkbAe6Pf3Tq4LQuZMJ7MDvpaxdb5BMs-CtgRNY4PNwqcwbkP-0tclsB4lF_2E1kS9_h4KTa--dpZN0_epIy_tk9Z4dHUSO-JevjtuXDU1NkksYZQfYJ36wnSjknI-mgKzAALEcXZsqxj=w283-h400" width="283" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><br /><br /></span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhc-QHUcAQvr63.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhc-QHUcAQvr63.png" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 3px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493046169823449090" dir="auto" id="tweet_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">90. </span>THE FISH GIRL: Mirandi Riwoe<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Riwoe fleshes out a minor Malay character from one of Somerset Maugham's 'Far Eastern Tales', giving her a richly textured history and tragic life story</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhdPO5VkAMf94k.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLhdPO5VkAMf94k.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 296px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477767119183875" dir="auto" id="tweet_42" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477767119183875" dir="auto" id="tweet_42" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">91. </span>THE SERVANT: Robin Maugham<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />See a man thoroughly manipulated, debased and destroyed! Lots of dark, seedy fun about power plays and switching roles.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnkqOpUcAUtCxm.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnkqOpUcAUtCxm.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 327px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477771376427012" dir="auto" id="tweet_43" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477771376427012" dir="auto" id="tweet_43" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">92. </span>LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK: Nikolai Leskov<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A servant embarks and what to him is just another affair with a married woman, not realising the emotional storm and violence he's about to unleash. The title will give you some hints.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnlKrxVQAEXYNM.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnlKrxVQAEXYNM.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 306px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477776132763648" dir="auto" id="tweet_44" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493477776132763648" dir="auto" id="tweet_44" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">93. </span>THE BROTHER: Rein Raud<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A stranger comes to town. All hell breaks loose.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />(A deliberate attempt to do an Estonia "spaghetti Western", this succeeds in every way.)</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnlr1hUYAAKeJJ.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLnlr1hUYAAKeJJ.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 307px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493486078329643009" dir="auto" id="tweet_45" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493486078329643009" dir="auto" id="tweet_45" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">94. </span>TODAY: David Miller<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Forster-channelling novella about the death of Joseph Conrad; beautifully observed only book by a writer who then sadly died himself.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLntO8MVEAQJMJj.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLntO8MVEAQJMJj.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 268px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493486082658160643" dir="auto" id="tweet_46" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493486082658160643" dir="auto" id="tweet_46" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">95. </span>JILLIAN: Halle Butler<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Deeply grim and funny workplace comedy about a terrible employee in a terrible workplace and her obsession with/loathing of her even more terrible office-mate.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLntgqZVUAI8zQs.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLntgqZVUAI8zQs.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 308px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801192303968265" dir="auto" id="tweet_47" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801192303968265" dir="auto" id="tweet_47" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">96. </span>THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER: Joseph Roth<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Strange, wondrous story of transcendence about a man drinking himself to death, written by a genius in the process of drinking himself to death</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsIFvlVUAMLm9f.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsIFvlVUAMLm9f.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801197664600072" dir="auto" id="tweet_48" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801197664600072" dir="auto" id="tweet_48" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">97. </span>EVERY EYE: Isobel English<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A woman on a train unravels the mystery of her life; a compact masterpiece admired by Muriel Spark, who was no stranger to compact masterpieces</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsJtlnVcAArlP8.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsJtlnVcAArlP8.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 353px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801202164797446" dir="auto" id="tweet_49" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801202164797446" dir="auto" id="tweet_49" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">98. </span>TRAVEL LIGHT: Naomi Mitchison<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Weird, vivid fairy-story-ish fantasy of exiled children, talking shapeshifting animals and the language of dragons.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsKYdIVIAMA6Ka.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsKYdIVIAMA6Ka.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 309px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801206677790721" dir="auto" id="tweet_50" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801206677790721" dir="auto" id="tweet_50" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">99. </span>THALIAD: Marly Youmans<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />An origin story--a verse saga--of some future civilisation, drawn from the story of a group of children who (mostly) survive the fiery catastrophe that destroys ours.</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsKtt7VIAEiMr7.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsKtt7VIAEiMr7.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801210846973955" dir="auto" id="tweet_51" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cfe2f3;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801210846973955" dir="auto" id="tweet_51" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box;">100. </span>THE DUEL: Giacomo Casanova<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ending this list with a second duel, this time in an autobiographical novella about two men (exiled Venetian, polish aristocrat) who end up in a battle of honour over a woman neither of them actually likes</span></span><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsLS5oVgAI-0qf.png" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsLS5oVgAI-0qf.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 297px;" /></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="Unwise_Trousers" data-tweet="1493801213137018882" dir="auto" id="tweet_52" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsMPMZUYAIA3MS.jpg" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLsMPMZUYAIA3MS.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 642px;" /></span></a></span></div><p><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.84)" face=""lucida grande", "lucida sans unicode", "lucida sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;">• • •</span> </span></span></p>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-92044337453066927452022-01-28T16:27:00.001-08:002022-01-28T16:27:15.196-08:00Shameless Podcasting<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1drSlt9R7FwWg3j_FaOZhDP1gSR3bbmfbXQ25zt06zwhzvSlohR3-YGleA1s2ZvMQqINOWJyMZG56jmqQVuLyTXylzMZke8emVwQNl8JAtktTITE_FXnQ_qBgrXuhSvSmc-LVLXksfg5BvvNHLopuM2MJDKUX7-nsswQCyr0Q4zWZwTfIa2LmZy8l" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1drSlt9R7FwWg3j_FaOZhDP1gSR3bbmfbXQ25zt06zwhzvSlohR3-YGleA1s2ZvMQqINOWJyMZG56jmqQVuLyTXylzMZke8emVwQNl8JAtktTITE_FXnQ_qBgrXuhSvSmc-LVLXksfg5BvvNHLopuM2MJDKUX7-nsswQCyr0Q4zWZwTfIa2LmZy8l" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Somehow I end up sharing virtual space with the mighty Chip Kidd on this podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yes-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/id1556693648?i=1000549139471" target="_blank">here</a>, talking about book cover design and its commercial pressures.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2V_4FW4WSCksJotBZ2jJRd71_gpSeMkFpE9D5woDGVaKKCSQmmx-TCVS2HQYteWeeZemOvUfcSZ40ZJ_AqMLfVK3JwwIgFbYJNHPcCiXCdU5UXYiA14oNX5SaJ7bpF6NcuGhkFGs8iKPwCbQXnIUoPmX3RUt4TfF3xaimENlbHzghTkcdEzjvnINJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="1220" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2V_4FW4WSCksJotBZ2jJRd71_gpSeMkFpE9D5woDGVaKKCSQmmx-TCVS2HQYteWeeZemOvUfcSZ40ZJ_AqMLfVK3JwwIgFbYJNHPcCiXCdU5UXYiA14oNX5SaJ7bpF6NcuGhkFGs8iKPwCbQXnIUoPmX3RUt4TfF3xaimENlbHzghTkcdEzjvnINJ" width="300" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-67083619721969205492022-01-12T15:41:00.004-08:002022-01-12T15:42:57.174-08:00A Year in Reading [Solo Edition]<p>The ever-splendid Dorian Stuber was kind enough to ask me to write about my favourite books of the past year <a href="https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2022/01/12/james-morrisons-year-in-reading-2021/" target="_blank">over at his blog</a>. So I did.</p><p>Books discussed:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFHNG_Erz8K4_Rq8AkPTgNYiH9K26EOTyK6tnbM0ICsw-ZwUG7dRE7cilm0yWng_KlLOlZ5WziAXQebhhZTfdH8dRWYBNLnNaW-D1H5n81k9lyFY1-kBn_Y7TBOz-3cqra3bHjKO4-DNU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFHNG_Erz8K4_Rq8AkPTgNYiH9K26EOTyK6tnbM0ICsw-ZwUG7dRE7cilm0yWng_KlLOlZ5WziAXQebhhZTfdH8dRWYBNLnNaW-D1H5n81k9lyFY1-kBn_Y7TBOz-3cqra3bHjKO4-DNU/w400-h283/2021+Best+Books+Image.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />(click for bigger image)</div><br /><br /><p></p>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-31802298670174993752022-01-05T23:12:00.001-08:002022-01-05T23:12:05.025-08:00A Year in Reading<div>This was a lot of fun--a bunch of people who read too much discussing the year behind and the year ahead in reading, and I got to be one of them:</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5rRqOoduiSc" width="391"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div>Click through for a nice full-screen version! Apologies for the way that Zoom cuts to my horrible face every time I laugh.</div><div><br /></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-51510028434435619602021-12-22T21:15:00.005-08:002021-12-22T21:16:48.373-08:00Yammering Again<div>I darken <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFFuV_loS97oL-UTCazcXA" target="_blank">Shawn</a>'s doorstep once again, this time discussing a Polish classic:</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/oh8VizGF910" width="391"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div>Click through for a nice full-screen version!</div><div><br /></div><div>The book is <i>The Romance of Teresa Hennert</i> by the great Zofia Nałkowska.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiga3rmKZHHVpaMGue66_RZk7z-zfIVhAAJBVIw3CJ1LucOPUEcTn-KATHChvnsaa24Pvy_cidrFV9RsHsYzAqH5cFMGWVcIlUK_soFwuVcNox2k658evfvPxUfZ-oRAnplJj1RGl0Pp5-OwKlv-6cH48Al6r1FJ7b7QaG0bDfacS8CaiPEm7uBs-lF=s1360" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiga3rmKZHHVpaMGue66_RZk7z-zfIVhAAJBVIw3CJ1LucOPUEcTn-KATHChvnsaa24Pvy_cidrFV9RsHsYzAqH5cFMGWVcIlUK_soFwuVcNox2k658evfvPxUfZ-oRAnplJj1RGl0Pp5-OwKlv-6cH48Al6r1FJ7b7QaG0bDfacS8CaiPEm7uBs-lF=w259-h400" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-14578427765271340122021-11-02T17:18:00.001-07:002021-11-02T17:18:32.260-07:00The Neglected, ResurrectedAnyone who has read much of what I blather about here or on <a href="https://twitter.com/Unwise_Trousers">Twitter</a> will know my passion for neglected, rediscovered books. As an attempt to justify this, I'd say that with nearly forgotten books from the past, as with translated literature, they need real champions to get them into print. They're not chasing the latest trend, so they don't fit easily into modern publishing's line-ups. Someone, or even multiple someones, has to really fight for them, and this sort of passion is only likely to be aroused by the really good stuff.<div><br /></div><div>This leads me to the website of Brad Bigelow, <a href="https://neglectedbooks.com/" target="_blank">Neglected Books</a>, a massive archive of undeservedly forgotten literature, deftly researched and enthusiastically championed. I have genuinely lost count of the number of wonderful books I have chased down because of Bigelow's work, and have not regretted any of them (except, perhaps, for the financial pain).</div><div><br /></div><div>Splendidly, Neglected Books is now working with <a href="https://www.boilerhouse.press/" target="_blank">Boiler House Press</a> at the University of East Anglia to establish the imprint <a href="https://www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books" target="_blank">Recovered Books</a>, focusing on republishing some of the best and most hard-to-find books the blog has championed. The first book in the series has just been published, and as both a standard-bearer for the project and a work in its own right, it's wonderful.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTx2v5KGrgBwFeRf4LcLE3hSFG4VumjjbvMLh4RjVe4GiMzt2aceHbMq-W34NcVu3ZtNhna-t3NwyBzl6aHZ_HYs-h7nP7rsNixiZ5rfW4qh_SOIDcx9a1DwLrZ8oUFFhyphenhyphenxzg5Q6Oz8II/s1360/51dkGejb8xL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="881" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTx2v5KGrgBwFeRf4LcLE3hSFG4VumjjbvMLh4RjVe4GiMzt2aceHbMq-W34NcVu3ZtNhna-t3NwyBzl6aHZ_HYs-h7nP7rsNixiZ5rfW4qh_SOIDcx9a1DwLrZ8oUFFhyphenhyphenxzg5Q6Oz8II/w259-h400/51dkGejb8xL.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gentleman Overboard</i> was the first novel by Herbert Clyde Lewis, first published in 1937. The <a href="https://neglectedbooks.com/?p=6840" target="_blank">article about his life at Neglected Books</a> outdoes any summary I can produce here, but he went on to write several more novels, and became a bankrupt, a Hollywood writer, and a victim of the HUAC anti-Red witchhunts, before dying, possibly by suicide, alone in a hotel room in 1950.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's hard not to read <i>Gentleman Overboard</i> without keeping this sad end in mind, because the novel itself, with barely a wasted word, tells the story of the last hours of a man who accidentally falls off a passenger ship into the middle of the ocean. Despite the sadness of the story, though, it's a witty and surprising novel--Lewis's style here reminded me of the funny/quite-desperation captured in the <i>Mrs Bridge</i> and <i>Mr Bridge </i>novels of Evan S. Connell, which is tremendously high praise. It's a pitiless but strangely not a cruel book.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have to mention the excellent cover by designer <a href="https://www.louiseaspinall.com/" target="_blank">Louise Aspinall</a>, which subtly updates the design of the original hardcover. This referencing to earlier editions is surprisingly rare on the world of republishing, but when done as well as it is here it is very effective. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwieZ0dIf3St0TZnnRPTI-MhJxgEig6XQ4_3e7j50HWBq2qV39QT1DvmbYpcoL2DMxNVwjJOhrUiKENXu227b6JNYI_t3rgLjO-gJHnHR_JQyuEeFuL4YXW-kG4Eq-ioV7UlXv82hUt0A/s500/lewis_gentleman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="319" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwieZ0dIf3St0TZnnRPTI-MhJxgEig6XQ4_3e7j50HWBq2qV39QT1DvmbYpcoL2DMxNVwjJOhrUiKENXu227b6JNYI_t3rgLjO-gJHnHR_JQyuEeFuL4YXW-kG4Eq-ioV7UlXv82hUt0A/w255-h400/lewis_gentleman.jpg" width="255" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The 1937 Viking hardcover</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I am very keen to see what Recovered Books does next. It's hard for me to be objective about this, as it's the sort of publishing project that seems tailor-made for my tastes and obsessions. If you're anything like me, and in this if nothing else you should be, then please get hold of a copy of this book.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-86276267637345834062021-09-08T19:05:00.001-07:002021-12-22T21:15:53.829-08:00Yammering<div>I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but I'm sure I am as silvertongued as ever as I discuss a book featuring a woman and her potato on the cover. Also features people who know what they're talking about:</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/1HEqKi1YpxM" width="391"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div>Click through for a nice full-screen version!</div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-89071970550459692552021-08-29T20:20:00.002-07:002021-08-29T20:20:40.973-07:00All the books<p>Some people have unwisely asked to see all my books. Have at it:</p>
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<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/591893523">All the books? All the books.</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user111092671">Flyin Pasties</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-51525029987001610752021-08-29T03:26:00.001-07:002021-08-29T03:26:16.704-07:00Canadian Bear Sex<div>For all your Canadian bear sex novella needs:</div><div><br /></div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/phHuokngjxo" width="391"></iframe> <div><br /></div><div>Click through for a nice full-screen version!</div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-45447433118802188752021-08-05T18:29:00.002-07:002021-08-05T18:29:43.912-07:00XX and Black Locomotives<p> Looking back, apparently the longest book I've read this year so far is designer, artist and typographer <a href="https://www.devicefonts.co.uk/">Rian Hughes</a>' wonderful <i>XX</i>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipKSzqN9cC3Z6JMYFjXWwubL5ylSjzNh_QSb0Rkeuwh8rgWFVevn334OfI6B2NaMngjyIo-retXFEQXHLmHp6D0tRsGlasbamQ8OnLqIndOhz6QlhhoDRpUYtV1Xi8j5RIXu0ENyGTTtE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="304" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipKSzqN9cC3Z6JMYFjXWwubL5ylSjzNh_QSb0Rkeuwh8rgWFVevn334OfI6B2NaMngjyIo-retXFEQXHLmHp6D0tRsGlasbamQ8OnLqIndOhz6QlhhoDRpUYtV1Xi8j5RIXu0ENyGTTtE/w257-h400/image.png" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>US edition from Overlook</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwm6kJLqXmiRrZ-U5GuITpm3wBWKeV8KZCrXk_mzUru4YGtk7lHZ7cgPKlHtp4fVG8S_a3aVv7CA_2dforsHEBNE6ufuf8-sCu5p6gJcHE5R8xQaLepW9b5O9KCpZ6GHjs2bh4oCnPPpU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1339" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwm6kJLqXmiRrZ-U5GuITpm3wBWKeV8KZCrXk_mzUru4YGtk7lHZ7cgPKlHtp4fVG8S_a3aVv7CA_2dforsHEBNE6ufuf8-sCu5p6gJcHE5R8xQaLepW9b5O9KCpZ6GHjs2bh4oCnPPpU/w262-h400/image.png" width="262" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>UK edition from Picador</i></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BQAc_oPniWHB-C2w6Li7MejuDGHx7gq9jVzRP3XX_BoPWhYniHyeKUBCL2dm72-BeV45RNaNvKpTvLNNBL7BEFYnC1_I-9Q6sKeH6S__wh5FGeOPsP8CYZPwWoGqGa12jze9lT7b14c/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1770" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BQAc_oPniWHB-C2w6Li7MejuDGHx7gq9jVzRP3XX_BoPWhYniHyeKUBCL2dm72-BeV45RNaNvKpTvLNNBL7BEFYnC1_I-9Q6sKeH6S__wh5FGeOPsP8CYZPwWoGqGa12jze9lT7b14c/w400-h239/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>It's a 1000-page novel about AI and First Contact and consciousness and memes and art and typography and a centuries-old conspiracy involving Hugh Walpole. It also has a reversible dustjacket...<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRKCK4bODWTuuOBVvU4MvbJlGEF29Qzmq1kwqi8qx5ZOoWHdBIc1YGiT3lUxbUwCIetzV1bLFltKqxP2svQ7KwCrBBWH-WUPgYLQSLRYeCqMpZb4RbrqNsXu_jjZ8jjbUTcH2uVYF1FU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="1842" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRKCK4bODWTuuOBVvU4MvbJlGEF29Qzmq1kwqi8qx5ZOoWHdBIc1YGiT3lUxbUwCIetzV1bLFltKqxP2svQ7KwCrBBWH-WUPgYLQSLRYeCqMpZb4RbrqNsXu_jjZ8jjbUTcH2uVYF1FU/w400-h189/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />..and various interpolated (fictional) documents like Wikipedia pages and album reviews and email exchanges and magazine extracts and an entire pulp SF novella...<div><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3HZAIro-L115viVQWBTtukcVEubn0MxKxrb58i6d-s9G1N5hh0mO8orQ0tOy8c41jTl9ECeN1hDcR8SEQivOOT31hteU-osjQ3OlKLOln3HpCzpkwcoDhlJldlbA_10qm2WpJUawS0vg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="1807" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3HZAIro-L115viVQWBTtukcVEubn0MxKxrb58i6d-s9G1N5hh0mO8orQ0tOy8c41jTl9ECeN1hDcR8SEQivOOT31hteU-osjQ3OlKLOln3HpCzpkwcoDhlJldlbA_10qm2WpJUawS0vg/w400-h318/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8P9Ze1zObyFAC2Kuzm29xU9LRZdWCE-6C7hJKV3stZr8P9ozp7H1ctmCOiVsKX0wP5lRIMJ99mnvM34hwHZJAoaIDgwkdtU6VxARThpIjyvuI38mKPxRa7_AoEhm0fLFOZF5f_z6YaSc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="1936" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8P9Ze1zObyFAC2Kuzm29xU9LRZdWCE-6C7hJKV3stZr8P9ozp7H1ctmCOiVsKX0wP5lRIMJ99mnvM34hwHZJAoaIDgwkdtU6VxARThpIjyvuI38mKPxRa7_AoEhm0fLFOZF5f_z6YaSc/w400-h311/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />..and lots of fun with typography: this is the output of an AI character reared on Futurism and Marinetti-style philosophy:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCJ9A2dxtZLoteYFkkF9CDv56H7BjZn2sqCc6tlSKNgfFp7v0vhs3IWPBEo846VuKBMpw2puwjM8aMM_PZ7P-MBASWXkS318tEpBO-W0qOIfKpmlZg8fCJTmsOUhp8ZpZTky3E1FsGzI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1468" data-original-width="1936" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCJ9A2dxtZLoteYFkkF9CDv56H7BjZn2sqCc6tlSKNgfFp7v0vhs3IWPBEo846VuKBMpw2puwjM8aMM_PZ7P-MBASWXkS318tEpBO-W0qOIfKpmlZg8fCJTmsOUhp8ZpZTky3E1FsGzI/" width="396" /></a></div><br />It's grand. Mine is the US edition--I don't _think_ the UK edition has the reversible jacket, but I may be wrong.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVNPYF5amK2p7oBv2UAnICi0g5HXmPipCV24kN_3Q5YZhHbnWN-NBU9Jcx2MZGOICn6Q3wZAVZUFE5TKm-jqxZsQd9crz60QJeKeNF6fz2ule_Df_N9H9cjwAZy_VRkd63B-MRiHfNO8Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1486" data-original-width="1862" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVNPYF5amK2p7oBv2UAnICi0g5HXmPipCV24kN_3Q5YZhHbnWN-NBU9Jcx2MZGOICn6Q3wZAVZUFE5TKm-jqxZsQd9crz60QJeKeNF6fz2ule_Df_N9H9cjwAZy_VRkd63B-MRiHfNO8Q/w400-h319/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />Hughes has a new novel out today, which I haven't got yet but have ordered: The Black Locomotive. I need it.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlK465T6vygrVgGJmlW4u7_-qVbdF1ZvXytXDnPpcaYCxkztP-TPFpULupm9wJEQ0YCOLHUIeUGGd04Ds965doMwTkUz3oZf6Mch-pNCR5re1lOZzhFV_6BAZ0VtK1nsT6lWb7EqnTtyQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlK465T6vygrVgGJmlW4u7_-qVbdF1ZvXytXDnPpcaYCxkztP-TPFpULupm9wJEQ0YCOLHUIeUGGd04Ds965doMwTkUz3oZf6Mch-pNCR5re1lOZzhFV_6BAZ0VtK1nsT6lWb7EqnTtyQ/w262-h400/image.png" width="262" /></a></div></div></div></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-65693410458782188872021-07-30T03:05:00.003-07:002021-07-30T03:05:37.106-07:00Gentle, Fierce, Self-Promotion, Dogs<p> I am back on Shawn the Book Maniac's Youtube channel as the least of five people talking about recent readings. You can watch it here or over there. It features my dogs videobombing the talk...</p>
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<div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div>..which in my case is about artist and writer <a href="https://vanessaberryworld.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Vanessa Berry</a>'s essay collection, <i>Gentle and Fierce</i>, for which she provided her own cover artwork.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNMXAEFa8QzQDNE13iU61fpuhTWgWZBuSZE-p-AaZB175IcoShHXcR5kwmWNNkfQi4bvke6kArO2wYcehuo82Hdo8fct3abZjbIbfhbioYToKxp0U8ybZJbmWJpCJYcL_6KomFv0ccECc/s2048/vanessa-berry_gentle-and-fierce_9781925818710.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1444" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNMXAEFa8QzQDNE13iU61fpuhTWgWZBuSZE-p-AaZB175IcoShHXcR5kwmWNNkfQi4bvke6kArO2wYcehuo82Hdo8fct3abZjbIbfhbioYToKxp0U8ybZJbmWJpCJYcL_6KomFv0ccECc/w283-h400/vanessa-berry_gentle-and-fierce_9781925818710.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-43718327687102756822021-06-21T00:21:00.002-07:002021-06-21T00:21:42.177-07:00RECENT READING 1<p><i>(Going to attempt some semi-regular capsule reviews: let's see how it goes!)</i></p><p style="text-align: center;">*</p><p><b><i>Made by Sea and Wood, in Darkness</i>: Alexandros Plasatis, 2021</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IFf3SEmHbaZMhulmL0ibnADM4V5ZquJ6iysqGuahi7UrMWckyl1DLrJvoV2K8Wwv-exr0IaiVIxtbuV7r_BZdYJc1jdueqAdzxEat8Ho8_KxtQudv6p0MPzG41JMWRW68am22D0_n7E/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="441" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IFf3SEmHbaZMhulmL0ibnADM4V5ZquJ6iysqGuahi7UrMWckyl1DLrJvoV2K8Wwv-exr0IaiVIxtbuV7r_BZdYJc1jdueqAdzxEat8Ho8_KxtQudv6p0MPzG41JMWRW68am22D0_n7E/w134-h200/image.png" width="134" /></a></div><br />A novel in stories that shifts and darts between voices and viewpoints, all centred at the Café Papaya on the Grecian coast, where Egyptian fisherman fight and argue with testosterone-crazed locals. In fact, unrestrained masculine foolishness is a recurring theme in the vivid tumbling parade of tall stories, misunderstandings, brief lusts and sweaty evenings. Unusual and worthwhile.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Detransition, Baby</i>: Torrey Peters, 2021</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh79gY3iOLXSnS7JR6THIy8P4m1ofMwPisPr8C0CmxrRMWCZzUbIxqqdQ5TsHMatec2cQOKyXo4kriqvKgzdsjYtzg0qBdZB2dAwo0nUqDmloRjz5NIENdpAYk9nh1qbTena7JBf5Sl-dk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="263" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh79gY3iOLXSnS7JR6THIy8P4m1ofMwPisPr8C0CmxrRMWCZzUbIxqqdQ5TsHMatec2cQOKyXo4kriqvKgzdsjYtzg0qBdZB2dAwo0nUqDmloRjz5NIENdpAYk9nh1qbTena7JBf5Sl-dk/w132-h200/image.png" width="132" /></a></div><p>Witty and clever and ultimately depressing, but also suffering from the bane of too many first novels in that it desperately needs pruning. Minutely detailed abusive relationships make up rather more of the book needs be, given their actual relevance to the plot (in which a trans woman is contacted by her detransitioned ex, now living as a man, because he has got someone pregnant and has an elaborate and ludicrous scheme whereby the two of them, plus the pregnant woman, will somehow form a family for the baby).</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Warm Worlds and Otherwise</i>: James Tiptree Jr, 1975</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxN6eIJdfE4T_f-liE_gvSAc24SmVhwlscJdgb9zdwgdsLXkYb3EJSUAoyPzqPB_UhEJbJpF69JTYE-yeUFew6xvet2oaclDbnd2wKLaJGfFK1wkhRboCix6_OATgv35uff6_TP4W1ij0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="292" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxN6eIJdfE4T_f-liE_gvSAc24SmVhwlscJdgb9zdwgdsLXkYb3EJSUAoyPzqPB_UhEJbJpF69JTYE-yeUFew6xvet2oaclDbnd2wKLaJGfFK1wkhRboCix6_OATgv35uff6_TP4W1ij0/w123-h200/image.png" width="123" /></a></div><br />I have thoroughly enjoyed several other collections of Tiptree's (real name Alice Sheldon) genre-revivifying science-fiction, but I don't remember it being this datedly '70s to such an extent. Maybe one of those writers I shouldn't have revisited.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The Brainstorm</i>: Jenny Turner, 2007</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQOklEnqeLRUzE2vJkWoCgNzqhR6Q5sztOlxqKj7ab5oJWs9wUt6IjKXVxOvc55HfL-3ZI80JzmdpFtdWdIs6Yg-MvX0VI4cuAF4sYvAfEPNquVeVmH1eRiH7GU3rS6uL2i0R-Ftl9HU/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="259" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUQOklEnqeLRUzE2vJkWoCgNzqhR6Q5sztOlxqKj7ab5oJWs9wUt6IjKXVxOvc55HfL-3ZI80JzmdpFtdWdIs6Yg-MvX0VI4cuAF4sYvAfEPNquVeVmH1eRiH7GU3rS6uL2i0R-Ftl9HU/w129-h200/image.png" width="129" /></a></div>A weird one. A perfectly serviceable and enjoyable satire on working at a British newspaper in the 1990s, but with the title-giving conceit (a "brainstorm" that means the main character comes to at their desk at the opening of the book with no idea who they are or what they're meant to be doing) so half-arsed that it makes no internal sense and seems to be forgotten about for great stretches of the book. I would never suggest that the heaped praise from various British newspapers quoted on the front and back covers was a case of calling in the favours.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>The Monkey and Other Stories</i>: Miklós Bánffy (translated by Thomas Sneddon), 2021</b></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDkoezMAVRevcK11IspM3nHqZXj-TdAp24yqVoqjIicD8D6TMlGMILts_MFBMWf1u72VP3ycDO4foqJQxZZbcZPlSLWg3h7jeAVhMqOtyiUGBlNUpV21EFpbwinK92wYbZn-TXkhTAhY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="196" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKDkoezMAVRevcK11IspM3nHqZXj-TdAp24yqVoqjIicD8D6TMlGMILts_MFBMWf1u72VP3ycDO4foqJQxZZbcZPlSLWg3h7jeAVhMqOtyiUGBlNUpV21EFpbwinK92wYbZn-TXkhTAhY/" width="161" /></a></div>The second of two Bánffy (1873-1950) short fiction collections published in a matter of months (after Len Rix's <i>Enchanted Night</i> selection), though luckily there are only around 50 pages of overlap. Widely varied in tone and setting, Bánffy's humanism and unusual worldview show through, as does his clear-eyed love for the Transylvanian countryside and history his life was steeped in. </div>JRSMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5413291183164140297.post-19341759960832397632021-05-12T17:51:00.014-07:002021-05-12T17:51:57.683-07:00After the Ball<p>'After the Ball' or 'Jove Decadent', by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Casas">Ramon Casas</a>:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86bsPkhZa_bPhWTOc559-h-UYVdF6JF2trA29-ywLyoKnwL6HH9rvF0T5KhGY11Xw9QrjmnfNeLpt1kVz0yZkLhtbzsp_cPW6ZxQW9FbqKWS-TgPShCGe6gTgxY21AapTQz0H23XheNk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="720" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86bsPkhZa_bPhWTOc559-h-UYVdF6JF2trA29-ywLyoKnwL6HH9rvF0T5KhGY11Xw9QrjmnfNeLpt1kVz0yZkLhtbzsp_cPW6ZxQW9FbqKWS-TgPShCGe6gTgxY21AapTQz0H23XheNk/w400-h333/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Popular on many, many book covers:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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