Ethan
@ethantgibson
PhD student, etc.
I'm grateful to Adam for taking an interest in this pitch, and for providing the editing it needed. This is an essay I've wanted to write for years, so I hope it has some interest for fans of Lynch—or of modernism, for that matter.
After a hiatus The Hobbyhorse is back! With @ethantgibson on Rebecca West's THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER and TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, the former's complex portrayal of "shell shock" unlocking a new interpretation of Dougie Jones and identity in Lynch's world. thehobbyhorse.substack.com/p/magic-circles
Interesting to see some Substacks adopt the Financial Times pink as their background colour. You can almost mistake the former for the latter if you see a screenshot on the timeline… sort of like those flies that camouflage as wasps but have no sting
I, too, think it's best to judge in advance a book that's not out until 2026 based on the plot summary found in marketing copy the writer had no hand in. I don't think it makes me look bitter or green-eyed
“One of the most original and brilliant writers today”’s new novel is about an interview with an old man that doesn’t get recorded because of a phone mishap?
Rough day for the “analytic philosophy isn’t just arguing about shrimp welfare while kids starve” crowd
Just finished this and all of you should read it if you haven't ASAP, an amazing book.
RATIONALITY TEST: Is it appropriate to reduce the moral life to either/or questions based around quantifications?
Who writes like this
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
Restaurant discourse, twitter: we should abolish restaurants no we shouldn't Restaurant discourse, oblivion: The Feed Bag isn't fancy, but it fills you up. You'll never leave the Feed Bag on an empty stomach.
Brilliant deep dive by @arisroussinos unherd.com/2025/07/barry-…
According to my horoscope in today's Victoria Times Colonist, I am the guy from Remainder by Tom McCarthy
from an early age i knew i wanted to Contribute to The Literature
people say shit like this but there’s considerable work showing that indigenous populations (here i’m most knowledgeable about the PNW) had sophisticated systems of aquaculture & ecosystem management. they just haven’t been legible as agriculture, etc to western authorities.
precolumbian coastal california was so temperate and abundant that the indigenous tribes had no agriculture or domesticated livestock yet were still the densest population north of tenochtitlan. little wonder europeans thought they'd discovered the garden of eden
real af.....
Heard you went over to the other side. Get out of my face.