Ivy Grimes's review of The Veldt Institute 5/5: A strange and wonderful novel about a confused patient doing his best to progress in his treatment at the mysterious Veldt Institute. I recommend this book to everyone.

Some very kind reviews coming in on G R for 'The Veldt Institute':

Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social says "A strange and wonderful novel"

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

'The Veldt Institute' book release poster

Tomorrow at Lost Avenue book in Portland, OR will be the release reading for my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

With @lauracranehill.bsky.social and an exclusive new track from @pulseemitter.bsky.social

6pm

Portland, do it, don't miss this one.

"At the Veldt Institute everyone is sick, so no one is sick." — The Veldt Institute, Samuel M. Moss

Officially out as of yesterday. See link below.

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"I have only one dream now. In this dream I am falling from a great height." — Samuel M. Moss, The Veldt Institute

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Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

Muddy Waters ~ My Home Is In The Delta YouTube video by TheCoolBlues

...never have been anything other than obsessive about the things I'm obsessive about.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGUx...

The Earth Room - Black Lawrence Press | Black Lawrence Press Winner of the 2024 Hudson Prize The Earth Room transports us from the forests of Appalachia to the Sonoran Desert to the glaciers of Iceland, all while exploring the mysteries of what it means to be a...

@danadiehl.bsky.social’s newest collection, The Earth Room, is available for pre-order with @blacklawrence.bsky.social

Do it:

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Double Trouble: out of Vonnegut’s lime-green overcoat comes Double Black Diamond, Double Negative’s second book. Delve in. Preorder here.

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Robert Johnson - Love In Vain - High Quality YouTube video by DSM1

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Well, let me say the obvious, you're perfect, and everyone should be just a little more like you.

poets.org/poem/tell-me... <-- to read the rest

co-edited this book. it's so pensive and careful and remarkable. check it out, help me spread the word. pre-order here if you want to:

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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her [Coffee Scene] YouTube video by Pan & Scan Auteur

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMVB...

www.eliseperoi.com/exhibitions/

David Lynch is not dead.

American underground filmmaker Stan Brakhage
Still from The Art of Vision 1961-65

#StanBrakhage #ExperimentalFilm #Cinema

Inside the pink building, late on Saturday night.
No people about, footfall at minimum, Blackpool out of season. Days are dark and nights are long.
#streetphotography #Blackpool #urbanphotography #nightphotography #britishseaside #noPeople

Alice in the Cities (1974)

Cinematographer: Robby Müller
Directed by Wim Wenders

a hot dog sunk or sailing on its buns in one of the Seagram Building's fountains....

Animals I would like to someday have close by, I think a donkey with long fur and tentative ears

Head and shoulders b&w photo portrait of W.G. Sebald, in heavy coat, scarf and spectacles, on a stone river bank.

A rare interview with W.G. Sebald by the brilliant James Wood, in July, 1997 (when Sebald’s only book in English was The Emigrants).

It was from a series called The Writer, The Work, hosted by the PEN American Center, New York.

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a spread from the book 'Eastern Blocks II' featuring a full-bleed photo of numerous residential windows in a huge building

a photo in winter of people playing in a snowy park, with a huge residential complex in the background

David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka have traveled the width and breadth of Eastern Europe, photographing the region’s unique brutalist architecture. "Eastern Blocks II," the duo's new book, captures some of these stark scenes.

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"It's not my goat," I explained. "It's the town's goat. I'm just taking my turn caring for it." "I didn't know we had a goat," one of them said. "I wonder when my turn is." "Soon," I said. "Be patient. Your time is coming."

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Very excited to share 'Dr. Lysergus and the Holy Fool' an excerpt from my debut full-length 'The Veldt Institute' forthcoming with Double--Negative Press later this year.

Night on Earth (1991)

Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
Directed by Jim Jarmusch

The ruins of a castle

Joan Miró ~ Essence of the Earth
(Lithograph)

#JoanMiró #Surrealism

"She guessed that these days began for him with the pleasure of lifting his eyes up to the trees." — The English Patient, Ondaatje