Letitia Trent
@letitiatrent.bsky.social
#filmsky #poetry #mutantfam #booksky #Arkansas writer & film watcher. Pls pay me Criterion. Shirley Jackson Award nominee. Novel Summer Girls out from Haunted Doll House, July 2024. I write sometimes on Substack: https://letitiatrent.substack.com/
Pinned
Halloween watchlist w/my husband. Pinning it to the top so I don't forget.
1. The Exorcist (re-watch for me)
2. Talk to Me (new to both of us)
3. In the Mouth of Madness (re-watch for me)
4. Ugly Stepsister (new to both)
Also playing Call of Cthuhlu & Sinking City & Still Wakes The Deep
1. The Exorcist (re-watch for me)
2. Talk to Me (new to both of us)
3. In the Mouth of Madness (re-watch for me)
4. Ugly Stepsister (new to both)
Also playing Call of Cthuhlu & Sinking City & Still Wakes The Deep
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From now to the end of the year we’re offering 15% off anything we’ve got with code MALARKEY. Will post book links below but this is a great opportunity to join the book club even cheaper. A year of book mail for $120 but with the discount it’s $102.
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2026 Book Club — Malarkey
Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
From now to the end of the year we’re offering 15% off anything we’ve got with code MALARKEY. Will post book links below but this is a great opportunity to join the book club even cheaper. A year of book mail for $120 but with the discount it’s $102.
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
malarkeybooks.com/store/2026bo...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Subs close tomorrow, November 27!
This is a guy who does lectures about how worried he is about the antichrist. I could not imagine a more obvious ghoul. I don't know if "human nature" is really a thing but it does sure seem like too much money makes people...like this.
Their denial of the body as merely a vessel for code is shown daily by the way these men treat actual living human beings, including the ones who work for their companies.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
Peter Thiel Is Very, Very Interested in Young People's Blood
The contrarian venture capitalist believes transfusions may hold the key to his dream of living forever.
www.inc.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
This is a guy who does lectures about how worried he is about the antichrist. I could not imagine a more obvious ghoul. I don't know if "human nature" is really a thing but it does sure seem like too much money makes people...like this.
Read a review of my novel Summer Girls which was overall kind & insightful. The biggest criticism was abt a part of the book that I, too, wasn't sure I landed, and the comment helped me realize WHAT I SHOULD'VE DONE INSTEAD AND WHAT I NEED 4 MY CURRENT NOVEL. What a helpful (for me) review, damn.
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Read a review of my novel Summer Girls which was overall kind & insightful. The biggest criticism was abt a part of the book that I, too, wasn't sure I landed, and the comment helped me realize WHAT I SHOULD'VE DONE INSTEAD AND WHAT I NEED 4 MY CURRENT NOVEL. What a helpful (for me) review, damn.
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So happy that @avclub.com let me write about Blossoms Shanghai, which has now started on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. www.avclub.com/blossoms-sha...
Wong Kar-wai returns with the sumptuous, supersized Blossoms Shanghai
Wong Kar-wai returns with the sumptuous, supersized Blossoms Shanghai
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November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
So happy that @avclub.com let me write about Blossoms Shanghai, which has now started on @criterionchannl.bsky.social. www.avclub.com/blossoms-sha...
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New essay by yours truly on one of the film’s of the year… for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
A Visceral Look at the Impossible Task of Mothering
Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is at once harrowing and mesmerizing.
www.thenation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
New essay by yours truly on one of the film’s of the year… for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
god I love this lil poem
“But tonight he is alive and in the north / field with his mother.”
— Laura Gilpin
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This poem appeared in The Hocus Pocus of the Universe by Laura Gilpin, published by Doubleday (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social), 1977. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Laura Gilpin
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This poem appeared in The Hocus Pocus of the Universe by Laura Gilpin, published by Doubleday (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social), 1977. Shared here with deep gratitude.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
god I love this lil poem
📽️Has anybody been more beautiful than Montgomery Clift in Red River? #thecriterionchannel
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
📽️Has anybody been more beautiful than Montgomery Clift in Red River? #thecriterionchannel
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Don't do any of this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Don't do any of this.
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If you're going to read ONE short story this weekend, make it this one...
"The Net"
by Nick Mamatas
www.picpublishing.ca/one.html
"The Net"
by Nick Mamatas
www.picpublishing.ca/one.html
ONE
June 1, 2025 The ONE project is our way of elevating and showcasing other Horror writers by publishing a single story at a time. We want to focus on that one we find really special. Exclusive. This...
www.picpublishing.ca
November 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you're going to read ONE short story this weekend, make it this one...
"The Net"
by Nick Mamatas
www.picpublishing.ca/one.html
"The Net"
by Nick Mamatas
www.picpublishing.ca/one.html
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
If they revealed that Peter Theil was trying to set up some kind of The Most Dangerous Game situation with Epstein on his island it would not surprise me, he has an aura of pure evil. Imagine being so repellant that even your face is trying to get away from you.
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If they revealed that Peter Theil was trying to set up some kind of The Most Dangerous Game situation with Epstein on his island it would not surprise me, he has an aura of pure evil. Imagine being so repellant that even your face is trying to get away from you.
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Congratulations to contributor @writerbrucej.bsky.social on the publication of LOVE, DIRT -- the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award with University of Iowa Press! buff.ly/Sf9Md1u
Love, Dirt
From the intimate confines of a Nebraska farmhouse to the bustling streets of South America, the characters of Love, Dirt traverse uneasy spaces in search of human connection. A closeted teen on a…
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November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Congratulations to contributor @writerbrucej.bsky.social on the publication of LOVE, DIRT -- the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award with University of Iowa Press! buff.ly/Sf9Md1u
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“The memory of my own voice would come back to me, the way I’d hurled it around: my father, my father, my father.”
Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today:
www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/
Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today:
www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/
Good Health
Fiction
www.thedriftmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“The memory of my own voice would come back to me, the way I’d hurled it around: my father, my father, my father.”
Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today:
www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/
Read Mimi Diamond’s Issue Sixteen story, online today:
www.thedriftmag.com/good-health/
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Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. (...) The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them.
By @erikmbaker
By @erikmbaker
“To imagine yourself as a modern-day Seneca, a sage liberated from the cares afflicting more ordinary souls, is its own form of self-indulgence,” @erikmbaker.bsky.social argues in his Issue Sixteen essay on self-help philosophy.
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
www.thedriftmag.com/how-i-learne...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Shitty Life
Self-Help Gets Philosophical
www.thedriftmag.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. (...) The things we can accomplish together are, by definition, within our sphere of control, even if we have to act through structures that are bigger than any of us alone to achieve them.
By @erikmbaker
By @erikmbaker
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Whoah, cool:
THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social makes it onto Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025!
"Jones’ chilling vampire Western is a retribution-fueled nightmare for readers with iron guts." Congratulations, Stephen and @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!
time.com/collections/...
"Jones’ chilling vampire Western is a retribution-fueled nightmare for readers with iron guts." Congratulations, Stephen and @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!
time.com/collections/...
'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Whoah, cool:
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Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
1964: A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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“Think dog as hygrometer calibrated for storm-turn, dog as live wire volta.”
Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025).
@martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social
Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025).
@martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social
Howl It So: A Review of Catherine Rockwood’s Dogwitch by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025). 28 pages. $10 Dogwitch by Catherine Rockwood (Bottlecap Press, 2025) As family lore goes, I was a little girl who required an extensive colle…
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November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Think dog as hygrometer calibrated for storm-turn, dog as live wire volta.”
Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025).
@martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social
Just a beauty of a review this morning by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza of Catherine Rockwood’s chapbook DOGWITCH, new from Bottlecap Press (2025).
@martin65.bsky.social @violetagm.bsky.social
📽️The Materialists is so tonally weird that I am almost hypnotized. Dakota Johnson makes me think of Keanu Reeves sometimes. Sometimes compelling to watch but almost never speaking in a way that seems spontaneous or human.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
📽️The Materialists is so tonally weird that I am almost hypnotized. Dakota Johnson makes me think of Keanu Reeves sometimes. Sometimes compelling to watch but almost never speaking in a way that seems spontaneous or human.
Terrible CG in It: Welcome to Derry is puzzling. The 1st ep was ruined for me w/the flying bat baby thing. I liked ep 2 much better, & then 3 has that graveyard scene. I like the kids. I love the intro, and I can ignore the military stuff. But the CG & occasionally the script confuse me w/badness.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Terrible CG in It: Welcome to Derry is puzzling. The 1st ep was ruined for me w/the flying bat baby thing. I liked ep 2 much better, & then 3 has that graveyard scene. I like the kids. I love the intro, and I can ignore the military stuff. But the CG & occasionally the script confuse me w/badness.
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An illegal street racer pulled up to me in Malta & threw This House of Grief at me, shouting, "Read it, you English dolt!" Then screeched off. This is a terrible way to get me to read anything but I picked it up from where it had ricocheted off a now dead pigeon and devoured it in 2 days. Brilliant.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
An illegal street racer pulled up to me in Malta & threw This House of Grief at me, shouting, "Read it, you English dolt!" Then screeched off. This is a terrible way to get me to read anything but I picked it up from where it had ricocheted off a now dead pigeon and devoured it in 2 days. Brilliant.
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Oh, I loved Tom Piccirilli's A Choir of Ill Children so much!
In the American South, writes Elizabeth Broadbent, "[t]he past is our wound, and the past is our anchor." Here are five Southern Gothic stories that explore generational trauma and inescapable connections to the past.
Five Southern Gothic Books about Generational Trauma That You (Probably) Haven’t Read - Reactor
Families grappling with ancestral sin and the crimes of the past
reactormag.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Oh, I loved Tom Piccirilli's A Choir of Ill Children so much!
New Gemma Files!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New Gemma Files!!!!
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Pilot just came on to say it’s his last flight ever and he’s retiring. Come on man don’t say that to me. Don’t tell me that right now.
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Pilot just came on to say it’s his last flight ever and he’s retiring. Come on man don’t say that to me. Don’t tell me that right now.