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Andrew F. Sullivan

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author. one vile task after another. www.andrewfsullivan.com

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · Sep 15

My name is Andrew F. Sullivan.

I write fiction about reckonings and rot.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 5h

great honour and respect bestowed upon the bro at the gym whose paper towel trick shot missed the garbage can entirely and who then made the long walk to pick up his embarrassment and gently place it in the waiting can, restoring order and tranquility amongst the free weights and their discontents.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 6h

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 20h

Playing beastie boys on my phone to give me strength before rushing the active shooter but my pods disconnect and give away my location immediately

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 20h

"Listening to Meat Loaf's "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" at Home During Canadian Thanksgiving" by Okkervil River

Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See album cover

Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 21h

took ten years but Gondor shirt finally appropriately faded

Me in a navy blue and white Gondor t shirt

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 1d

embracing the uncle lifestyle

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union - audiobook cover

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 1d

if they called it TRAM instead of TRON, the world would be a better place.

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Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 1d

they're playing my song (Marx and vampires, Moretti and Dracula)

"Marx, as is well known, was fond of comparing capital to vampires, most famously in the passage in Capital that reads: ‘Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.’ In ‘Dialectic of Fear’, Franco Moretti argues that the figure of Dracula in particular, which Marx did not live to see, refers to a more specific set of anxieties, experienced by the British bourgeoisie at the height of what the Budapest-born social theorist Karl Polanyi called ‘the international system’ – held together by the balance of power, the self-regulating market, the gold standard and the liberal state – and what we might call the ‘first era of globalization’. According to Moretti, the Romanian Count represents the threat of monopoly, and thus of backsliding from market liberalism into ‘feudal’ despotism."

"Because Stoker does not recognize that the self-regulating market is a utopian myth, and that unfettered market competition is itself what generates monopoly, it is necessary that he frame the threat to economic liberalism as ‘oriental, tyrannical. It cannot be a part of that very society he wants to defend.’ His solution to the threat of backsliding is to forge an ideological collectivity that is strong enough to fend off the ‘foreign’ vampire without compromising existing individual property relations, represented in the novel by marriage. The panacea he arrives at is nationalism – albeit with a little help from such free-market friends as Dutch academic Abraham Van Helsing and Texan financier Quincy P. Morris. But as Moretti reminds us, Dracula does not end with the death of the Count, it ends with the death of Morris, a pre-emptive narrative strike against the rising American empire that doubles as a bit of wishful thinking on Stoker’s part."

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 1d

vibing with the dead while trying to beat Pokémon Silver on the couch

Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 1d

By the time I was 10 I had seen probably 50 dead bodies. As the first of my generation I guess I had to watch a whole segment of the old die all at once.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 1d

somehow ended up on the group email for my dad's transplanted Irish village in Ontario, so I know what is going on with all the quilts, fiddles, and endless wake arrangements.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 1d

sipping on that Bill Callahan

"I started out in search of ordinary things
How much of a tree bends in the wind
I started telling the story without knowing the end"

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · Mar 31

It has been surmised, that perhaps, my lord had become like a wild animal that had been kept too long. Perhaps, but whatever... freedom... so long an unremembered dream, was his.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 2d

blurbed this and stand by it. this is the good shit. level up.

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 2d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 2d

great summary of the scams getting rained down upon us

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 2d

Today's newsletter is about the patterns in fake book club and other scam emails sent to authors.

How to spot an author scam email

I’ve grumbled enough on social media about the rise in AI-generated scam emails that now, more than one of my author friends has sent an email to me, asking...

buttondown.com

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 4d

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 2d

escape pod playing Pinegrove's "Need 2" as it shudders through a planet's atmosphere

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 2d

love to be uncovering a long hidden child's drawing or fresco portraying a mysterious atrocity in a decrepit and abandoned manor by candlelight while furtive sounds of movement get closer and closer to my position

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes the world just hands you a book cover.

White brick wall with a torn metal grate on a windows below it and a chip bag.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 2d

sometimes the world just hands you a book cover.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 3d

on a day when we discover Jordan Peterson has been living with mold for over a decade, it's good to remember the best fungal horror comes out of Toronto.

happy to see THE MARIGOLD still lodged in the consciousness like a spore in the airway.

reactormag.com/creeping-fun...

Creeping Fungus: Nine Works of Sporror - Reactor

If you love mushrooms or just want some creepy reads to add to your TBR, this list is for you!

reactormag.com

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 3d

smoke pits of the tundra rising up, banners unfurling into the heavens.

Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 3d

rotisserie chicken-based magic system

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 7d

every day I wake up and kill a computer because I can

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 3d

very kind, thoughtful and soothing dude. He even tracked down a random photo I wanted for the cover of my first book that I had hanging in my bedroom as a teenager. Got the photographer to agree and everything. I owe him big.

All We Want is Everything - my first book

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