franco luís
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franco luís
@francoluis.bsky.social
· Oct 28
Reading can be such a wonderful generative thing when you let go of any ideas about what you should read or what you should want to read, and go instead to what draws your interest and maybe even more so, your joy
I hate my favorite football team the Detroit lions
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I hate my favorite football team the Detroit lions
Fell asleep watching planes, trains & automobiles and woke up to see a different film playing on the tv which appeared to be a sequel to planes, trains & automobiles in which John Candy and a woman in a hat talk on the phone a lot
November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Fell asleep watching planes, trains & automobiles and woke up to see a different film playing on the tv which appeared to be a sequel to planes, trains & automobiles in which John Candy and a woman in a hat talk on the phone a lot
To soothe myself during this time of year, I am listening to an audiobook about various horrible things which occurred during history
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
To soothe myself during this time of year, I am listening to an audiobook about various horrible things which occurred during history
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"Real fans of poetry deserve such monuments – in this case, the work of a lengthy lifetime: decades of wondering and pondering, deadpan ironizing and making meaning in America, just the kind of work that must never have felt like work at all."
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Very Collected Poems
Very Collected Poems By Ron Padgett Coffee House Press. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Bies Ron Padgett’s been busy. In the dozen years since the publication of his Collected Poems, America’s silliest livi…
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November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Real fans of poetry deserve such monuments – in this case, the work of a lengthy lifetime: decades of wondering and pondering, deadpan ironizing and making meaning in America, just the kind of work that must never have felt like work at all."
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
perhaps everything could work out
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
perhaps everything could work out
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hello and I hope you are all doing well
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
hello and I hope you are all doing well
I meant 2026 lol
early list of writers/books I want to read in 2025:
-Don Quixote
-Orhan Pamuk
-Lydia Davis
-Leslie Marmon Silko
-Brian Evenson
-Stephen Graham Jones
-Middlemarch
-Maybe some Faulkner
-Denis Johnson
-Bud Smith
-more books from Autofocus
-at least one fantasy novel
-more graphic novels
-Don Quixote
-Orhan Pamuk
-Lydia Davis
-Leslie Marmon Silko
-Brian Evenson
-Stephen Graham Jones
-Middlemarch
-Maybe some Faulkner
-Denis Johnson
-Bud Smith
-more books from Autofocus
-at least one fantasy novel
-more graphic novels
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I meant 2026 lol
How do you guys afford Patagonia jackets. Do you have to take out a loan
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How do you guys afford Patagonia jackets. Do you have to take out a loan
early list of writers/books I want to read in 2025:
-Don Quixote
-Orhan Pamuk
-Lydia Davis
-Leslie Marmon Silko
-Brian Evenson
-Stephen Graham Jones
-Middlemarch
-Maybe some Faulkner
-Denis Johnson
-Bud Smith
-more books from Autofocus
-at least one fantasy novel
-more graphic novels
-Don Quixote
-Orhan Pamuk
-Lydia Davis
-Leslie Marmon Silko
-Brian Evenson
-Stephen Graham Jones
-Middlemarch
-Maybe some Faulkner
-Denis Johnson
-Bud Smith
-more books from Autofocus
-at least one fantasy novel
-more graphic novels
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
early list of writers/books I want to read in 2025:
-Don Quixote
-Orhan Pamuk
-Lydia Davis
-Leslie Marmon Silko
-Brian Evenson
-Stephen Graham Jones
-Middlemarch
-Maybe some Faulkner
-Denis Johnson
-Bud Smith
-more books from Autofocus
-at least one fantasy novel
-more graphic novels
-Don Quixote
-Orhan Pamuk
-Lydia Davis
-Leslie Marmon Silko
-Brian Evenson
-Stephen Graham Jones
-Middlemarch
-Maybe some Faulkner
-Denis Johnson
-Bud Smith
-more books from Autofocus
-at least one fantasy novel
-more graphic novels
rewriting my novel and just asking myself if I actually want to read each scene before I rewrite it has been very helpful
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
rewriting my novel and just asking myself if I actually want to read each scene before I rewrite it has been very helpful
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muppet starship troopers could fix us
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
muppet starship troopers could fix us
I like reading anecdotes about Donald Barthelme who seems to have been a kind and deeply strange man
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I like reading anecdotes about Donald Barthelme who seems to have been a kind and deeply strange man
That feeling when you finished a great book and you pick up another book you want to read but you feel bad starting it because you know you’re gonna cheat on it with yet another book which is arriving from thrift books this evening….
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
That feeling when you finished a great book and you pick up another book you want to read but you feel bad starting it because you know you’re gonna cheat on it with yet another book which is arriving from thrift books this evening….
Canada Dry is my sober person weird drink, if you’re sober make sure you get one of your own
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Canada Dry is my sober person weird drink, if you’re sober make sure you get one of your own
It’s nice when a writer I’m a fan of announces they have a book coming out in 2 years. I’m like nice, if the world hasn’t been destroyed by then I can read that
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It’s nice when a writer I’m a fan of announces they have a book coming out in 2 years. I’m like nice, if the world hasn’t been destroyed by then I can read that
When I can’t sleep and wake up at 4 am it’s never been a waste of time to throw in the towel, get up, make coffee and work on my novel
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
When I can’t sleep and wake up at 4 am it’s never been a waste of time to throw in the towel, get up, make coffee and work on my novel
The are posters up at the sonic drive through reminding customers they have free will
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The are posters up at the sonic drive through reminding customers they have free will
Goodnight corner of the internet that isn’t completely insane
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Goodnight corner of the internet that isn’t completely insane
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One Battle After Another truly is one battle after another. They even say it in the film. They say "it'll be one battle after another". And you know what? They're right!
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
One Battle After Another truly is one battle after another. They even say it in the film. They say "it'll be one battle after another". And you know what? They're right!
Watching ufc for Zhang Weili and Zhang Weili alone
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Watching ufc for Zhang Weili and Zhang Weili alone
Might need to get YouTube premium back only to stop seeing these depressing AI ads for scam products
November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Might need to get YouTube premium back only to stop seeing these depressing AI ads for scam products
you should call out of work to read the vibrant short fiction of john cheever
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
you should call out of work to read the vibrant short fiction of john cheever
I wrote a book review in 2021 where I was like “especially now you should read this.” Man, why ‘especially’ now? Wtf was I saying
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I wrote a book review in 2021 where I was like “especially now you should read this.” Man, why ‘especially’ now? Wtf was I saying
wrote about some books I loved this year for a sweet little magazine
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
wrote about some books I loved this year for a sweet little magazine