Biblioklept

Biblioklept is twenty years old today.

I had never looked at a robot that closely before, having been brought up to fear and respect them.

“The Raid” by John Steinbeck I It was dark in the little California town when the two men stepped from the lunch car and strode arrogantly through the back streets.

A page from Prison Pit, Book One by Johnny Ryan, 2009, Fantagraphics Books.

Claudia Rankine’s Triage is out now from Graywolf Press.

“Poems for Bad Children” by Andrew Hudgins I We buried the bird but the cat dug her up, cat dug her up, cat dug her up, we buried the bird but the cat dug her up, so we ground her in the disposal.

The Drought, 1965, J.G.

Drawings by Raymond Pettibon.

“Wash” by Stuart Dybek In a slip that is the only thing pink about the day, she strains from the décolletage of a third-story window.

Two new titles this October from indie powerhouse Dorothy: What Remains by Brais Lamela (in translation by Jacob Rogers) and Denise Rose Hansen’s Blue Sunset.

“On the Train” by Gene Wolfe When I look out the window, the earth seems to have become liquid, rushing to flow over a falls that is always just behind the last car.

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Pinion, 1966 by Jasper Johns (b. 1930)

I picked up a copy of Gene Wolfe’s 1972 novel The Fifth Head of Cerberus on Friday afternoon.

Study of a Right Hand, 1588 by Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617)

August 15, 1914 Diaries, from Franz Kafka: Dreams, Diaries, and Fragments (1994) by Robert Andrew Parker (1927-2023) Kafka’s diary entry for 15 Aug. 1914 (trans. by Martin Greenberg with Hannah Arendt): 15 August.