Mike Rowe
@mhrowe.bsky.social
I am extremely flattered to say the least by Erik’s kind words. If anyone sees this and is curious, here’s a link to my blog homepage notesfromtheneogene.substack.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I am extremely flattered to say the least by Erik’s kind words. If anyone sees this and is curious, here’s a link to my blog homepage notesfromtheneogene.substack.com
In case you’re interested: Thomas Pynchon, Bill Clinton, Carl Jung, Harold Bloom, and Keanu Reeves all gathered together in this one post: notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/paranoid-f...
Paranoid (free)style
On Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
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March 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In case you’re interested: Thomas Pynchon, Bill Clinton, Carl Jung, Harold Bloom, and Keanu Reeves all gathered together in this one post: notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/paranoid-f...
Wrote a bit on C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/reality-is...
Reality is iconoclastic
On C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed
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March 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Wrote a bit on C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/reality-is...
Wrote about an Edith Wharton ghost story, one of the best I’ve ever read notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/edith-whar...
Edith Wharton and the making of American ghosts
On Edith Wharton's "Afterward"
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February 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Wrote about an Edith Wharton ghost story, one of the best I’ve ever read notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/edith-whar...
This is a very flattering endorsement for my notes from the neogene!
MH Rowe (@mhrowe.bsky.social) has a newsletter now. We've been haranguing him for years to do this because he's genuinely an amazing literary thinker; if you want sharp, beautiful essays on good books, you should sign up. His first one's on Calvino:
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On The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
A nonexistent post
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February 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is a very flattering endorsement for my notes from the neogene!
Reposted by Mike Rowe
I'm glad Erik shared this because it's absolutely hilarious. I went to dinner with @mhrowe.bsky.social the other night just so I could hear him talk about his writing. Also because I like him.
I think that this @mhrowe.bsky.social short story in Barrelhouse is one of the best pieces of "internet fiction" I've ever read. Basically no one writes about Online well in stories and this one nails it, along with nailing a bunch of other things
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/g...
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/g...
Great and Urgent Projects of Passion, by MH Rowe — Barrelhouse
Claire had been trying to get her son, Colton, to stop harassing Rod Stewart online. She took away his phone and returned it after a conversation in the kitchen during which Colton's contrition, regre...
www.barrelhousemag.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I'm glad Erik shared this because it's absolutely hilarious. I went to dinner with @mhrowe.bsky.social the other night just so I could hear him talk about his writing. Also because I like him.
Things have changed and will change more, but I I did something I used to do, which is publish a short story. Grateful to Barrelhouse for publishing my light but world-striding story about a mom trying to get her son to stop harassing Rod Stewart online www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/g...
Great and Urgent Projects of Passion, by MH Rowe — Barrelhouse
Claire had been trying to get her son, Colton, to stop harassing Rod Stewart online. She took away his phone and returned it after a conversation in the kitchen during which Colton's contrition, regre...
www.barrelhousemag.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Things have changed and will change more, but I I did something I used to do, which is publish a short story. Grateful to Barrelhouse for publishing my light but world-striding story about a mom trying to get her son to stop harassing Rod Stewart online www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/g...
New kind of cat’s feet just dropped
November 15, 2024 at 9:17 PM
New kind of cat’s feet just dropped
Wow, it’s the dramatic final scene, when the one battery thinks the other battery is dead
November 11, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Wow, it’s the dramatic final scene, when the one battery thinks the other battery is dead
whoever chews it gets their mind read (not good fyi)
November 8, 2024 at 10:20 PM
whoever chews it gets their mind read (not good fyi)