A screenshot of the account @un-manuscripts.bsky.social reading: I work at one of the top literary agencies and l've decided to start sharing the craziest unsolicited manuscripts we receive by the hundreds every damn month.

A screenshot of the account @un-manuscripts.bsky.social reading: Manuscript #62: She claimed to write "romantic [redacted]," and her novel was about a [redacted] who sit on the couch every night under a blanket, watching the evening news and "whatever comes on next," while secretly plotting to [redacted] each other's [redacted]. April 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM

A screenshot of the account @un-manuscripts.bsky.social reading: A novel told through [redacted] centered on a group of [redacted] fed up with skyrocketing rent in New York City: in the very first chapter, they decide to move to a [redacted] rename the town "[redacted]," and establish their community there. April 23, 2025 at 4:16 AM

Imagine being a talented but inexperienced writer with no connections who has spent years getting up early — before work and kids and god knows — to create something meaningful, and then seeing your words quoted and mocked here.

Redacting these GOOD ideas because they belong the writers.

I think, the fascination with westerns lies in their portrayal of individuals fully in control of their choices, no other genres allows for that kind of freedom beyond societal controls.

The Substance had no substance.

"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today

Reading Adam Phillips is such a pleasure.

Please include me too

This is nice. Please include me too.

Nice. I can see two books on Springsteen.

It is such a wonderful book.

The books one writes-past and present and future-are they not trying to say the same thing:Dear friend,from my life I write to you in your life? What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance,if things can be let go,every before replaced by an after.
~Yiyun Li

Add me please

My father said: You have a tendency towards metaphysics
Still I schooled you in the means of production
when your milk teeth were intact
~Athena Farrokhzad

No Jung?

Please send starter pack suggestions on: New Hollywood, Eastern European Cinema, Detective Novels, Psychoanalysis, Transcendentalism, Postcolonial literature and David Foster Wallace.

Today is the birth anniversary of Roland Barthes.