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Here's an essay on how contemporary novelists might use parallel columns. It includes a brief description of a new 6-volume novel in Croatian, which might just be one of the most intricately formatted novels ever--much more complex than Danielewski for example
https://open.substack.com/pub/jameselkins/p/experimental-formats-in-fiction-4
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Jacob Elordi reading Weak in Comparison to Dreams while he’s being made up as Frankenstein, reposted by the wonderful translator Max Lawton. In the original novel, the Creature reads Paradise Lost, Plutarch, and some other classics, so I'm in good company
https://www.amazon.com/Weak-Comparison-Dreams-James-Elkins/dp/1951213726
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A Short Introduction to Anneliese! First copies out today! Two down, three (plus a guide) to go. Thank you @unnamedpress you people are amazing.
Authors (artists in general) don't usually know exactly what they have made, but I'll bet this is the strangest novel of 2025. https://www.amazon.com/Short-Introduction-Anneliese-Strange-Languages/dp/1961884437
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Cover for the new novel! Went to the printer's yesterday, out in October.
It's the opening book of the five-volume novel "Five Strange Languages." Guaranteed to be as strange as the other two. Sets the stage for the entire project.
I'll be posting pages from the book with puzzles to solve. Free copies to the winners.
Preorder at Unnamed books or Amazon.
An outlandish amount of further information
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 6latest
2
Avg engagement / post
1–2
Typical post (engagement)
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
79/100
Very consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 2 likes + reposts (median 1) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Here's an essay on how contemporary novelists might use parallel · 3 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.18 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 3 text · 9 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.6×
Follows 892 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Here's an essay on how contemporary novelists might use parallel columns. It includes a brief description of a new 6-volume novel in Croatian, which might just be one of the most intricately formatted novels ever--much more complex than Danielewski for example
https://open.subst…
Suffering from media overload and ADHD? Noticing the decline in literacy? Join the world's most difficult reading group. Arno Schmidt's "Bottom's Dream," a book harder, longer, and less read than "Finnegans Wake. Everyone is welcome!
Mor…
Cover for the new novel! Went to the printer's yesterday, out in October.
It's the opening book of the five-volume novel "Five Strange Languages." Guaranteed to be as strange as the other two. Sets the stage for the entire project.
I'll be…
Given the many books & essays on the decline of literacy, it's interesting to find this book on close reading at university and professional levels. It begs the question: is there anything after close reading? Or is that the end of literat…
Jacob Elordi reading Weak in Comparison to Dreams while he’s being made up as Frankenstein, reposted by the wonderful translator Max Lawton. In the original novel, the Creature reads Paradise Lost, Plutarch, and some other classics, so I'm…
Anyone interested in a reading group on Beckett’s “Watt”? It would start in January, and it would include a close reading of his notebooks, secondary sources, scholarship, etc. — every bit as compulsive and slow as my groups on Perec and S…
And now, join the world’s most OCD reading group! The ultimate antidote to screen culture and ADD.
We’re reading Arno Schmidt’s Bottom’s Dream (with the original, Zettel’s Traum), a postwar magnum opus approximately five times the length …
Join the world's 2nd-most-OCD reading group!
We are reading Perec's Life: A User's Guide, using some brilliant graphics made by the artist Julie Boldt.
Our group is very friendly, international, and diverse, including artists and writers.…
A Short Introduction to Anneliese! First copies out today! Two down, three (plus a guide) to go. Thank you @unnamedpress you people are amazing.
Authors (artists in general) don't usually know exactly what they have made, but I'll bet this…
Literary contest! I’ve been posting excerpts from Five Strange Languages, my novel project. Volume 2, A Short Introduction to Anneliese, is out in a few weeks. It’s about long, complex books, and it has hundreds of allusions to other books…
Literary contest! First two people to identify the hidden allusions get free copies of my long, complex book about the fascination of long, complex books, out in June. All information, and the passage with the hidden clues, is here https:/…
Literary contest! First to identify the book, poem, play, film, or song hidden in the passage wins a free copy of the book. Contest at
tinyurl.com/anneliese15
Past contests are all here (many still unsolved): https://tinyurl.com/anneliese…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Art historian, writer, critic. I moderate two international reading groups, open to everyone: Perec's "Life a User's Manual" and Schmidt's "Bottom's Dream."
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