JPB
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Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // likes books, colors, shapes, noise // takes notes, makes zines // aging gracefully // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region
📚 22. THE PUBLIC SCHOLAR: A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK by David M. Perry. A very good guide for doing a kind of writing that I am very unlikely to begin doing 😂 (i.e., public-facing opinion work and the like)
recent collage // [this one compressed weird in the post above so I am uploading a smoother replacement version. take your pick!]
📚 21. POND LIFE by H. Goodspeed. Charmingly weird single-panel comics in a somewhat post-Shrigley vein
📚 20. QUEER NETWORKS: RAY JOHNSON'S CORRESPONDENCE ART by Miriam Kienle. Book-length effort to place Johnson's postal art in the context of both theory (Deleuze & Guattari, Derrida) and queer theory (Bersani, Muñoz, Sedgwick, Butler). Valuable, even if the task feels a bit like pinning a butterfly
recent collage // final one in a series made in Fargo, ND with papers sourced from @seerthemagickian.bsky.social's paper stash
recent collage // made in Fargo, ND with papers sourced from @seerthemagickian.bsky.social's paper stash
📚 19. THE ENHANCERS by Anne K. Yoder. Three young women (and a small supporting cast of POV characters) navigate the fissures and contradictions threatening to cleave their near-future pharmaceutical utopia
Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure, what's yours? (RIP to this one as of 2024)
recent collage // made in Fargo, ND with papers sourced from @seerthemagickian.bsky.social's paper stash
alternate answer: this show which syndicated an assortment of British program(me)s about psychic kids
going to go with this, a series that somehow has gone un-reassessed even despite the deepening appreciation of TWIN PEAKS that began in 2017 and the extensive critical reconsideration of Lynch's entire body of work that followed his death in 2025
📚 18. KING-CAT CLASSIX by John Porcellino. I've been reading KING-CAT for half my life at this point, a shockingly vast span of time. This big volume conveniently compiles material from the very beginning right up until when I started getting issues. Invaluable! Acquired at @cakechicago.bsky.social