Bigcitylib
@bigcitylib.bsky.social
Writes fiction as MJ Murphy. Writes about fiction here: https://4mjmu.substack.com/ Wife says he's a smartass.
Games Writers Play open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... Three novels sold under false pretenses.
Games Writers Play
This week I am going to write about three books that don’t have much in common outside of the fact that the writer (sometimes abetted by their publisher) played a kind of bait-&-switch in order to get...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Games Writers Play open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... Three novels sold under false pretenses.
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JD Vance is not in the Epstein Flies. Could he still be the Republican nominee in 2028?
February 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
JD Vance is not in the Epstein Flies. Could he still be the Republican nominee in 2028?
The Alice Munro Scandal open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... Something I've been thinking a lot about since she passed.
The Alice Munro Scandal
When I went to University in the 1980s, if you took (or were forced to take) a CanLit course, you would be assigned a book of short-stories by Alice Munro. For me it was Who Do You Think You Are? Even...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:10 PM
The Alice Munro Scandal open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... Something I've been thinking a lot about since she passed.
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MAGA now entertaining the possibility that they may be guilty.
February 2, 2026 at 12:21 AM
MAGA now entertaining the possibility that they may be guilty.
Go suck ass hippy. If Steven Pinker didn't know Epstein how else would he get laid?
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 2, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Go suck ass hippy. If Steven Pinker didn't know Epstein how else would he get laid?
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February 1, 2026 at 9:14 PM
ICE turns discombobulator on American Citizens www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
ICE agents caught using sonic weapons at close range against peaceful protesters
ICE agents were seen using long-range weapons in a face-off against peaceful protesters in Minneapolis as the Trump administration's crack down in the city continues
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January 28, 2026 at 5:31 PM
ICE turns discombobulator on American Citizens www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
The Man Who Invented The Writing Prompt: On Metagrams, Aleatory Writing, Space, Time...Shit Like That open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
The Man Who Invented The Writing Prompt: On Metagrams, Aleatory Writing, Space, Time...Shit Like That
Raymond Roussel was one of the early 20th centuries great eccentrics, and perhaps one of its most important writers, or maybe just an interesting kook.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
The Man Who Invented The Writing Prompt: On Metagrams, Aleatory Writing, Space, Time...Shit Like That open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
LongLegs: Satan As Crapmonger, and Other Observations open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
LongLegs: Satan As Crapmonger, and Other Observations
Yeah, I know it isn’t a book, but…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
LongLegs: Satan As Crapmonger, and Other Observations open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
My opinion is it took Iraq months to go sideways. This war will be just weeks old before its obviously a failure.
January 3, 2026 at 10:28 PM
My opinion is it took Iraq months to go sideways. This war will be just weeks old before its obviously a failure.
Nah. Same in Canada. Farmers are always thought to be more authentic than office workers.
Do other countries have this weird notion that you’re not a “real” representative of the nation if you live in an urban center? Like do the French say Parisians aren’t really French? Are you considered not a real German if you live in Berlin? Or is this mainly a weird American thing?
January 1, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Nah. Same in Canada. Farmers are always thought to be more authentic than office workers.
Obligatory Uplifting Xmas Season Story: Gordo The Bootleg Santa open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
Obligatory Uplifting Xmas Season Story: Gordo The Bootleg Santa
This isn’t a book review.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Obligatory Uplifting Xmas Season Story: Gordo The Bootleg Santa open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
Supposed to feed the bat and it won't do that.
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
December 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Supposed to feed the bat and it won't do that.
H. Rider Haggard: When The World Shook open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
H. Rider Haggard: When The World Shook
Haggard's Last Hurrah, Almost
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December 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
H. Rider Haggard: When The World Shook open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
Substack piece published on blogger because substack kinda sucks. On Atlantis, Ignatius Connelly, Graham Hancock, and much much more. bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2025/12/atla...
Atlantis On My Mind (and Ignatius Donnelly, and Graham Hancock)
This was originally published on my Substack, Spoilers Ahead! You can read it there . It could use the views. But Substack in my experie...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Substack piece published on blogger because substack kinda sucks. On Atlantis, Ignatius Connelly, Graham Hancock, and much much more. bigcitylib.blogspot.com/2025/12/atla...
WARNING! Le Fanu's Famous Lesbian Vampire Novel Carmilla Contains NO Lesbian Action WHATSOEVER open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
WARNING! Le Fanu's Famous Lesbian Vampire Novel Carmilla Contains NO Lesbian Action WHATSOEVER
You’d think it should.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
WARNING! Le Fanu's Famous Lesbian Vampire Novel Carmilla Contains NO Lesbian Action WHATSOEVER open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/...
Atlantis On My Mind, Part I open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... A post on Atlantis in genre fiction, and how Donnelly’s work is NOT an early formulation of the YDIH. With a shout out to
@JasonColavito
@JasonColavito
Atlantis On My Mind, Part I
I’ve been thinking about Atlantis quite a bit lately, partly because I just read Francis Stevens’ novel Claimed!
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December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Atlantis On My Mind, Part I open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... A post on Atlantis in genre fiction, and how Donnelly’s work is NOT an early formulation of the YDIH. With a shout out to
@JasonColavito
@JasonColavito
The piss drinking bit might be true though.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The piss drinking bit might be true though.
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.
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This is like one of those people who after 9/11 was convinced that al-Qaeda was coming for Spartanburg, SC next www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/enterta...
Bill Maher says it's a 'good time' for him to not tour amid political violence
Maher said he made a “great choice” to stop doing comedy tours, because he could “get shot” in the current political climate from anyone.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is like one of those people who after 9/11 was convinced that al-Qaeda was coming for Spartanburg, SC next www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/enterta...
Ghosts, Demons, and Other Creatures of the Air open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... Post on Calcidius on Demons. Fun stuff.
Ghosts, Demons, and Other Creatures of the Air
Calcidius On Demons
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November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Ghosts, Demons, and Other Creatures of the Air open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... Post on Calcidius on Demons. Fun stuff.
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 52: Early Man in South America open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... With a bit of help from
@TetZoo
@TetZoo
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 52: Early Man in South America
The Rise and Fall of Homo Pampeanus
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November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 52: Early Man in South America open.substack.com/pub/4mjmu/p/... With a bit of help from
@TetZoo
@TetZoo
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For those who keep asking me about 3I/ATLAS, here's a great writeup by my friend
@astrowright.bsky.social
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@astrowright.bsky.social
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Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
For those who keep asking me about 3I/ATLAS, here's a great writeup by my friend
@astrowright.bsky.social
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
@astrowright.bsky.social
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BCL: Aspiring Novelist
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BCL: Aspiring Novelist
Just a quick life update. As some of my readers may know, I have published short stories here and there over the decades, and have been...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
BCL: Aspiring Novelist
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