A small, white two-story house, circa 1910. Small peaked roof with attic window.

A perfectly house-shaped house in the #PNW.

It takes some patience, but it’s really quite wonderful and weird. After a while Ishmael’s cetological obsession starts to make sense.

But, yes, lots of whale facts.

Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide The first graphic biography of renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide written by award-winning writer Isabel Quintero & illustrated by artist Zeke Peña

If you’re an Iturbide fan, this graphic novel is quite good.

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Elliot Chaze's "Black Wings Has My Angel" is a real classic. Highsmith's "The Price of Salt", "Talented Mr. Ripley", "The Blunderer" (many more). Vera Casparay's "Bedilia" and "Laura." Also, the @libraryofamerica.bsky.social's "Women Crime Writers" is a fantastic set. Can't go wrong there.

True, yes, he really did invent a genre. We're a fan of certain detective fiction here, like Chandler,, et al., but whodunit in general is less interesting. A good crime novel tho (Highsmith, Very Caspray, David Goodis, Eliot Chaze) — a whydunit — hits the existential spot.

Yesss. Corman's creepy lurid lusciousness is wonderful for that. His version of Masque of the Red Death is so weird and beautiful, like he decided to have his hand at Bergman.

At the risk of being too on-brand, probably The Fall of the House of Usher. What he writes about the disconcerting feeling from odd proportions and sin made manifest in a structure just explain so much.

However, The Imp of the Perverse, Berenice, Hop-Frog, Masque ..., The Black Cat — all fantastic

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An open notebook collaged with layers of floral wallpaper. On the lower right page is a dark photo of the entry to a house. A strip of lace crosses both pages, underneath which, on the left, you can read a hand-written note that says "I made a foolish mistake, that was wrong of me."

Here is some wallpaper and lace for #TextureTuesday, because the state of the world is more than we can handle at this moment.

(This image comes from Bless This Art House, a book of visual art about houses, that will come out with our short story collection)

#notebook #collage #booksky

*Looks at closetful of ‘70s shirts*

Did we suddenly become Gen Z?

(Seriously just get a waterproof fedora or cowboy hat, kids)

Three story peaked-roof house with fallen shake shingles in a rural landscape.

This #house is fascinating and tragic and needs so much love. #PNW

🖤 An early favorite. We have learned so much from the man over the many years and still devour him. Favorite story?

Noted and saved. Thank you.

Walter Mosley’s “Man in My Basement.” On page 100 and waiting for it to really start.

So far it’s no “Devil in a Blue
Dress.”

A favorite. There’s so much good Brontë.

We’re in.

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With a mask too. Double points. ✊🏻😷📖

That is the best way. Reading doesn’t need to be a datapoint. It should be a place one can escape that.

Unless one reads about statistical analysis.

A black and write film still of a moon with human face and a rocket in its eye.

Now anyone can fake photos of the moon, it’s true. Way back when, only the government and Georges Méliès could do it.

(We kid, George was actually there)

Same, but less kinky.

Bookish checkpoint!

📚 Last read: Patricia McKissack "The Dark-Thirty"

📚 Current read: "The Man in My Basement" by Walter Mosley

📚 Last added to your TBR: "Anarchitect" (Matta-Clark) by various

📚 Next read: "The Heat of the Day" by Elizabeth Bowen (cc:
@bowensociety.bsky.social
)

#booksky

Currently wondering if “there was an old woman who swallowed an ouroboros” is a suitable metaphorical mashup for someone who keeps cycling between the same two unhealthy options to cope.

Portrait of Roger Corman in red

Remembering Maestro Extraordinaire ROGER CORMAN on what would have been his 100th birthday. We miss you 🖤

No. Not likely. They are horrid things.

There are plenty of bad spirits here where Billy Gohl, the ‘ghoul of Grays Harbor’ killed some 90+ men.

There’s also the fish processing plant.

A paperback copy of “The shining” sits atop a criterion typewriter.

We are thinking about the solitude of writing and being trapped in a malevolent structure on #MonochromeMonday.

But also how we became an alcohol-free house while reading “The Shining” by @stephenking.bsky.social.

#BookSky #Polaroid

And the forests here are filled with deer tick, bears, and tree spirits who give bad writing advice.

Sofa. Chair. Outside is too distracting.

We came here to say “ … all against a backdrop of extreme American religiosity and fervor.”

You’re welcome. And as they say in Ikean, “go with Grönkula.”