bob black

10 years tomorrow You have helped add “sane” to my insane life Without whom, the books wouldn’t have been written the countries stretched between our fingers gone unexplored 🙏🍷🧎

Israel is bombing, sniping, and starving children to death every single day. It is a terrorist state by every conceivable definition of the term. No politician who defended Israel’s actions should ever get your vote. No company invested in Israel should ever get your money.

i've tweeted a few times over the last year, how much i love the remarkable Sarah Kane's writing Towering writer For those interested, the @BBC has a new essay on her work, if interested excellent piece @damiankelleher @realMattKParker @jeremyoharris bbc.com/culture/articl…

One of my favorite novels of the year @AvnerLandes

🇰🇷🇵🇸 A female protester in South Korea, tears flowing as she chants, "Stop starving Gaza, Stop starving Gaza."

you still dont think that America is also culpable in the genocide and the forced starvation of Palestinians? listen to @DoubleDownNews interview with Chris Gunness @GunnessChris former chief spokesperson for the United Nations Relief youtube.com/watch?v=gyksp2…

one of my writing heroes a poet I turn to weekly & re-read Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright & Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems sit next to my bed (for years) he will astonish the 1-2-3 combination of Wrights in my writing life James C.D. Charles

about time... NOW, STOP THE GENOCIDE, THE ETHNIC CLEANSING, THE STARVATION... DONATE DONATE DONATE. AND SPEAK OUT

Back to Handke

So to recap: Schattenfroh now releases on September 2nd, which gives you three weeks to finish it before Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff’s Your Name Here releases on September 23rd, and you have two weeks to finish that before the new Pynchon (we do not publish this one, sadly)

To put this in context, the terrible 1929 Hebron Massacre, one of the worst tragedies suffered by the Jewish community in Mandate Palestine, resulted in 69 innocent deaths. It has been the subject of many books and studies, and is still constantly referenced. Now around double…

Any help much appreciated... #gaza #Palestine #fundraising #HELP・GAZA

Please share & donate if you’re able to help young poet Haia and her family evacuate from Gaza gofund.me/c1ddc8d0

great interview with @Dr_mauraf on @ChrisLynnHedges please watch all teachers, professors, writers, journalists, students should watch youtube.com/watch?v=xOjChO…

having now read/reread 3 Handke novels and a book of his plays, tonight i am going to watch one of my favorite @wimwenders films Alice in the Cities it has always reminded me of early Handke novel and then tomorrow, The Left-handed Woman (book & film) criterionchannel.com/alice-in-the-c…

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Last week, after listening to @TheLifeonBooks interview w/ @maxdaniellawton , I decided to read & reread all of Handke Friday, I watched Wenders The Goalkeeper’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. glorious Then I read Afternoon of a Writer ✍️(loved) Tonight, the book and a play.

“Daddy, why is my shadow longer than I am?” a little girl this morning walking with her father in front of me. We were walking West, the rising sun at our backs toward the subway station Children, the greatest of inquirers Were it able to be said of the rest of us, adults.

"There are no words left, just utter disgust. When will the world say enough?" exactly