New video out today - my best reads of 2025: youtu.be/nCrXYLg9U74

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Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, ICE, Venezuela, Iran, I can hardly keep my mind & writing settled books my solace & perch reading on Chernobyl for 4 hours last night, my body exhausted, i awake to world horror my escape, Sherd's Tube, my favorite book vlog youtube.com/watch?v=nCrXYLg9…

Tread (or perhaps I should say 'paddle') carefully! 😉

Speaking of Philip Larkin's 'High Windows': "Here the vernacular collides with the transcendental as language itself seems to dissolve. The poem's very words undergoing a process of decomposition, loosed into spores that float upwards, begin their slow drift towards the numinous."

I especially want to shout out Sherdstube because this man alone is holding the quality literary content by himself. The atmospheres, the serene voice, the pondering of the mundane through literature, it's so good. It's insane he doesn't have more views, his content is top tier

It's been a while, but here's the latest installment of my Q&A series. Enjoy: youtu.be/J58_gzftDbc

New #SherdsTube : The Best Books I Read in 2024 - out now on YouTube: youtu.be/wOMcD5IQUZo

Mini trailer for the recent #SherdsTube video on Japanese women writers: youtu.be/r6kmpTWkQbc

Musical interlude from the latest #SherdsTube video:

New #SherdsTube video out today: 'Japanese Women Writers | A Reading Diary'. Please enjoy. And strap in - it's a long one! youtu.be/r6kmpTWkQbc

SherdsTube is a hidden gem of literary YouTube which should be more widely known. Subscribe! youtube.com/@SherdsTube

A few words on Mircea Cârtârescu's magnificent 'Solenoid':

Excerpt from #SherdsTube Silesia Reading Diary: youtu.be/IvVN5MgM0HM

@TheUntranslated joins me this week on the podcast. I loved this chat with Andrei and his blog is one true treasure troves on the internet. No sure if it gets much better than this...Listen here or anywhere you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/2Gp…

Will be making parts V & VI of the #SherdsTube Q&A video series soon. Ask me your bookish questions here in a comment or write to me at sherdspodcast@gmail.com

Release day for Lizard Brain. Marked roll call for this one. Chuffed I infiltrated. Thanks to @princessbl00d and @tragickalbooks.

New #SherdsTube video out today: 'Pre-Tolkien Fantasy & Cosmic Horror | A Reading Diary, 2024' youtu.be/TzkL987PKkE Let me know what you think!

I enjoy a fair number of booktubers, but this guy’s beautiful video essays are a fine cut above. Really should be way more views on these it’s astounding to me. How Danielewski's 'House of Leaves' Destabilizes the Reader youtu.be/Etk4VXjyzmU?si=QoVx… via @YouTube

Meta; smart; ambiguous; original; well-crafted; deeply personal and full of sorrow, angst, heartbreak, loneliness, and horror (both of the Aickmanesque quiet variety residing in “Holoow” and “Caring for a Stray Dog (Metaphors)” and louder—but never bombastic—forms of terror, that you’ll read in “The Pine Arch Collection”). @michaelwehunt’s The Inconsolables is, in a word, unlike anything I’ve ever read. I’m not talking so much as plot and story as I am HOW he tells it. Which is a staple in weird fiction. That’s why I find it rather pointless to give you a synopsis of each story, because you may say to yourself “so what?” And in which I would say, as I just recently implied, it’s all about the delivery of themes and imagery—not the story, not the plot, not the spectacle. My favorite story (and I confess: probably the most accessible one, too) is “The Pine Arch Collection,” which plays with analog/epistolary narrative. It’s a wild, unsettling ride, told in an innovative exchange of emails. I would say this collection has a frequency that’s somewhere between Thomas Ligotti , Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Aickman, John Langan, and Nathan Ballingrud; a weird blend of weirdness, and with a dreamlike prose that melts in your brain. The Inconsolables is one of my favorite collections. Ever. Greener Pastures is now in my Amazon shopping cart. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️