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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 2h

cc @etamny.bsky.social

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 14h

Edward Gorey gets a headstone ! irontontribune.com/2025/10/14/g...

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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 4h

Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 3h

This is the kind of trading card that gets me out of bed in the morning

Shawn Robare @shawnrobare.com · 15h

But do you have a gem mint Bronson Pinchot rookie card?

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 16h

Bill Goldstein's "The World Broke in Two," about Woolf, Eliot, Lawrence, and Forster in 1922.

Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 16h

Looking for books that look at a brief crucial period in an artist's life--like @elijahwald.bsky.social 's Dylan Goes Electric or @peteramescarlin.bsky.social 's latest on Springsteen + Born To Run (or @warrenzanes.bsky.social on the Boss/Nebraska). Would love suggestions esp on nonmusic subjects

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 18h

Same guy who (basically) said, "Hey, lookit me, I've got the tallest building in New York now" on 9/11.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 19h

You should read reviews. And write them. And subscribe to publications that run them.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 21h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 19h

the new president of the LDS church is a @uchicagopress.bsky.social author- A Criminal Justice System and the Indigent: A Study
of Chicago and Cook County, 1968
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Dallin H. Oaks Named President of the Mormon Church

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 20h

This is lovely, thanks. Funny thing is, I hate the Style Council but admire a lot of acts that could've conceivably opened for the Style Council.

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 20h

Pleasant discovery, thanks to a passing mention in a novel: The Pale Fountains, mid- / late-80s Britpop in the vein of Aztec Camera, Jazz Butcher, Housemartins/Beautiful South, Railway Children, etc. Trumpeter went on to join James, as one does. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6RF...

Pale Fountains - Jean's Not Happening

YouTube video by thoutah

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, my kid is mostly into pop, but he's also seen "School of Rock" a dozen times so he gets the appeal. Whatever works.

Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 1d

Funny you mention that. He was just noodling around with the National Anthem and I'm almost certain he's never heard the Jimi-at-Woodstock version.

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 1d

Bought my kid an electric guitar for his birthday just like he wanted and now he's playing RHCP and 3EB on it. Teenagers are the absolute worst.

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 1d

Here in Arizona, there are also *lots* of books of Mormon doctrine. But I came across a nice stack of 80s Grantas once. That was a good score.

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 1d

I've been around the block enough times to know that my library's "vintage book sale" is an invitation to sort through stacks of encyclopedias, Chilton car manuals, and Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Going anyway, just in case.

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 1d

#franzenfreude

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 1d

Franzen has only gotten better as a novelist.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 2d

Haven't got Chicago out of my system yet...

Program page for Mavis Staples, performing tonight at the Chandler (AZ) Center for the Arts.

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Vanished Chicagoland @vanishedchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Hi everyone! I am back from my trip and back to Vanished Chicagoland! I heard that actress Diane Keaton has passed away. She was so lovely. Here is a screenshot of her walking by a Downtown Records, located at 921 N Rush St in Chicago. This is from the 1977 movie Looking for Mr. Goodbar. R.I.P.

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 3d

We all find places of peace and calm in our own ways these days. Me, I'm watching some dude meticulously restore the axle and differential assembly of an elderly Datsun. No voiceover, just the whirs and squeaks of precision machine work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pasr...