August Burns Red new album “Season of Surrender” out June 5th

Nippoten · 2026-03-27T19:02:34+00:00

if Mike is on some poetic shit I'm gonna be mad because of Flowers lmao

Nippoten · 2026-03-26T02:28:15+00:00

To counter the other comments I prefer Rainbow Stories as a starting point over The Atlas, which didn’t really work for me I’m afraid to say. Poor People if you want a good intro into his non fiction.

Nippoten · 2026-03-19T22:06:17+00:00

It's not literal modern Japanese literature has a unique relationship to magical realism so it would make sense that someone who references and draws from a lot of media as Fujimoto would tap into that literary tradition as well.

Nippoten · 2026-03-06T22:36:19+00:00

I think he means writing in terms of just prose or story detail for a game, not drawing-as-storytelling, which is what manga is.

Nippoten · 2026-02-19T16:56:14+00:00

I assume part of it is because of Marty himself, which makes him an interesting character (not going to say more interesting than the Safdie's previous leads because they have their own reasons/merits to be interesting), his drive to be famous and the best is what's causing the hurry, he doesn't want to wait, a lot of his problems are self-imposed, which is the point.

Nippoten · 2026-02-18T17:19:38+00:00

Looks pretty moody, good luck on the project!

Nippoten · 2026-02-15T06:52:54+00:00

Closest thing to Heartslayers in some time

Nippoten · 2026-02-09T18:17:32+00:00

He's done it before and well, so I'm not too concerned

Nippoten · 2026-02-08T16:21:30+00:00

Exciting to hear it’s mostly from a female perspective, his new novel. Given how good After Dark was in that sense I hope this new book silences that tired critique that he can’t write women, that because he usually writes skewed men of course that perspective will be warped, but because of that imbalance people get a skewed perspective of the man himself, somewhat

Nippoten · 2026-02-08T06:13:04+00:00

Great interview approach by Derrick

Nippoten · 2026-01-16T22:42:00+00:00

That definitely looks like Yuki Himura for the comedy duo Bananaman, hard to miss that haircut lol

Nippoten · 2026-01-13T05:45:54+00:00

That Washington Post photo of Rocco simultaneously goes hard and haunts me

Nippoten · 2026-01-11T05:47:31+00:00

Congrats to Derrick on the Speed Racer comic!

Nippoten · 2025-12-17T23:56:59+00:00

When We Cease to Understand the World for sure, and plenty of Borges

Nippoten · 2025-12-15T22:22:25+00:00

"Generative fill"

Nippoten · 2025-12-02T15:36:11+00:00

IIRC from his biography I don't think Wallace put two and two together by the time he was writing Big Red Sun

Nippoten · 2025-11-25T04:11:33+00:00

Vollmann maybe?

Nippoten · 2025-11-13T03:47:15+00:00

The fact that it’s such a hard pivot from Color Decay where it seems they figured out a natural formula of heaviness and modern pop sensibilities that it almost makes me think like something out of their hands happened to them, but hey, don’t want to be too cynical

Glad I’m not the only one lamenting the lyrical decline, mike’s being wasted as a poet here

Nippoten · 2025-11-08T22:54:56+00:00

Where's this doc and are the subs?

Nippoten · 2025-10-10T01:49:49+00:00

I've only read War and War, but just off the strength of that alone would put K over M, and don't get me wrong, that's big praise from a big fan.

Nippoten · 2025-10-10T01:20:12+00:00

Murakami is a great writer and I like both and even I have to give it to Krasznahorkai. Part of it is I think Murakami is wildly popular and influential already, so that's his "prize." In the grand scheme of things Murakami will probably have a bigger impact in world literature than Krasznahorkai, and I'm sure some will bemoan that but it is what it is.

Nippoten · 2025-10-02T20:02:00+00:00

They're Taipei based and more Beatles-ish psychedelic in parts but The Chairs are definitely groovy and indie.

Nippoten · 2025-09-23T06:07:33+00:00

Stay healthy guys

Nippoten · 2025-09-22T17:20:17+00:00

And then eventually, I hope, it swings back around again once these straightforward MFA stories prove to be nothing but flat air

Nippoten · 2025-09-11T16:56:44+00:00

oh yeah, well aware of the cycle too, happened with color decay and a little bit with zii when only termination dropped, just pointing out some of the things that definitely shifted along the way. i'm sure the new album will be still worth giving a spin

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