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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 14h

Lovely record from David Shah's new project. Free download here though listen on Tidal or something so they can get some money
thestudiosystem.bandcamp.com/album/the-st...

The Studio System, by The Studio System

8 track album

thestudiosystem.bandcamp.com

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 18h

One thing I have really like about my life is that I've worked with a lot of cool people from all over the world

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 1d

"The feeling of being a total goofball but also so focused on storytelling, shames other writers who are "serious" but less good." - Yes, totally

Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 1d

What did you think of the book?

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 1d

“Aug's collected a lot of really interesting collaborators over the years, and seems to be a welcome presence in alcoves across the world. Aug's a great guy, and his ideas are never quite what one expects!”

Lovely quotes from Sam Carlson in this piece

www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/a...

"Rachel On The Rooftops" Is A Love Letter To New Haven

It’s dreamy and also delightful, the kind of song a person can stay in for multiple listens.

www.newhavenarts.org

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 2d

Chen Shiang-chyi in Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! I took the lamp to be pure Pynchonian fun. Yeah, references to all the others. Hope it's not final though.

Nice. I love to bowl

Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 3d

Nice. I can't recommend Against The Day enough

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled that if you search for Burt Reynolds at my local library my book Sporting Moustaches comes up

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 3d

Discovering Pynchon 20 years ago was nothing short of life-changing. I wrote about it in my latest Substack

augstone.substack.com/p/the-counte...

The Counterforce No. 70

Pynchon, Pynchon, Pynchon

augstone.substack.com

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 5d

More thoughts on Shadow Ticket, plus reliving my experiences with Pynchon books, discovering which was nothing short of life-changing and remain some of my favourite things #books #pynchon

augstone.substack.com/p/the-counte...

The Counterforce No. 70

Pynchon, Pynchon, Pynchon

augstone.substack.com

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 5d

More thoughts on Shadow Ticket, plus reliving my experiences with Pynchon books, discovering which was nothing short of life-changing and remain some of my favourite things #books #pynchon

augstone.substack.com/p/the-counte...

The Counterforce No. 70

Pynchon, Pynchon, Pynchon

augstone.substack.com

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 6d

"At times when I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow, it feels less like a book that I'm holding than a GIANT BLACK SWARM OF ULTRA-PARANOID BEES."

From my journal first time through it in 2005

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 6d

37,000+ words into my next book and loving it more each day

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 6d

Everybody finished reading Shadow Ticket yet? Can we start talking about it? My review for The Quietus. Looking forward to a third read sometime soon @thequietus.com #pynchon #shadowticket

thequietus.com/culture/book...

Nocturnal Admissions: Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket Reviewed | The Quietus

Aug Stone explores the myriad riddles and resonances of the new novel by the author of Gravity’s Rainbow

thequietus.com

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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social · 7d

@audunlindholm.bsky.social Thanks for sharing, Audun!

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 7d

'If Hicks McTaggart does make it back home again, it won’t be to the same America he left, “to a country not yet gone Fascist”. Given the current state of the country, this naturally seems like a comment on the United States today'

#ThomasPynchon’s Shadow Ticket Reviewed

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