Richard Castlemaine
@richardcastlemaine.bsky.social
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Three books that are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud!
Special October crazy prices. All eBooks now £3.99 and all paperbacks only £8.99!
This is not just comedy—this is Rob Gotobed comedy!
IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz
Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Special October crazy prices. All eBooks now £3.99 and all paperbacks only £8.99!
This is not just comedy—this is Rob Gotobed comedy!
IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz
Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
October 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Three books that are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud!
Special October crazy prices. All eBooks now £3.99 and all paperbacks only £8.99!
This is not just comedy—this is Rob Gotobed comedy!
IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz
Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Special October crazy prices. All eBooks now £3.99 and all paperbacks only £8.99!
This is not just comedy—this is Rob Gotobed comedy!
IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz
Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
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I'll be signing books today from 9:00 am at Macy’s on 151 West 34th Street, New York. I will be there until I'm forcibly removed by their security.
October 6, 2026 at 6:57 AM
I'll be signing books today from 9:00 am at Macy’s on 151 West 34th Street, New York. I will be there until I'm forcibly removed by their security.
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🎸🎶One of my slow romantic guitar improvisations.....
youtu.be/k0o-s-bHtgo
#romanticguitar #guitar #music
youtu.be/k0o-s-bHtgo
#romanticguitar #guitar #music
Slow Ambient Electric Guitar for Late Night Romance
YouTube video by Aurora Guitar Music
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October 7, 2026 at 11:56 AM
🎸🎶One of my slow romantic guitar improvisations.....
youtu.be/k0o-s-bHtgo
#romanticguitar #guitar #music
youtu.be/k0o-s-bHtgo
#romanticguitar #guitar #music
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‘Over the course of a century and a half the English effectively erased the old society from the island’s lowlands, founding a Germanic enclave in what had been Celtic land for more than a millennium. How this happened remains obscure.’
Pablo Scheffer on the Britons.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on the Britons.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer · Frightened Chicks: Britain before the English
Olives didn’t take; the wine wasn’t as good as it was back home. Other industry remained limited. Despite building...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
‘Over the course of a century and a half the English effectively erased the old society from the island’s lowlands, founding a Germanic enclave in what had been Celtic land for more than a millennium. How this happened remains obscure.’
Pablo Scheffer on the Britons.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on the Britons.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
October 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
How does Russia take out 20% of the United States’ most senior military leadership without firing a shot? By turning to the same man who is responsible for the destruction dozens of bases in the Middle East, the depletion of our arsenal, and hiding it all from the American people, Petrov Hegseth.
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‘Over the course of a century and a half the English effectively erased the old society from the island’s lowlands, founding a Germanic enclave in what had been Celtic land for more than a millennium.’
Pablo Scheffer on Britain after the Romans left.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on Britain after the Romans left.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer · Frightened Chicks: Britain before the English
Olives didn’t take; the wine wasn’t as good as it was back home. Other industry remained limited. Despite building...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
‘Over the course of a century and a half the English effectively erased the old society from the island’s lowlands, founding a Germanic enclave in what had been Celtic land for more than a millennium.’
Pablo Scheffer on Britain after the Romans left.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on Britain after the Romans left.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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I said I wanted to read a thick biography of Poe... Now I'll never have time to read anything else ever again.
September 19, 2026 at 7:05 AM
I said I wanted to read a thick biography of Poe... Now I'll never have time to read anything else ever again.
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Word! Hell yes I support this💙💛
September 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Word! Hell yes I support this💙💛
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‘In New York, no one cares that you’re an Ivy League professor; you’re just another resident of a crumbling and glorious city. This is a great check on self-regard, and I found it unimaginably freeing.’
Susan Pedersen on the culture of elite universities:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susan Pedersen on the culture of elite universities:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susan Pedersen · Keep off the grass: Oxbridge Attitudes
Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 19, 2026 at 10:30 AM
‘In New York, no one cares that you’re an Ivy League professor; you’re just another resident of a crumbling and glorious city. This is a great check on self-regard, and I found it unimaginably freeing.’
Susan Pedersen on the culture of elite universities:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susan Pedersen on the culture of elite universities:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Today’s book post: finished copies of SLEEPERS in hardback, airport paperback and US editions!!
September 19, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Today’s book post: finished copies of SLEEPERS in hardback, airport paperback and US editions!!
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🚨NEW: Todd Blanche has filed an appeal of Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order requiring him to turn over unredacted handwritten FBI notes and take other steps in Katie Phang’s Epstein files lawsuit by September 24. Phang says Blanche is continuing his “Herculean efforts” to avoid turning over the files.
Todd Blanche Fights Judge’s Order for Unredacted FBI Notes as Deadline Looms
Attorney General Todd Blanche is appealing a federal judge’s latest order in journalist and attorney Katie Phang’s lawsuit over the Justice Department’s
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September 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM
🚨NEW: Todd Blanche has filed an appeal of Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order requiring him to turn over unredacted handwritten FBI notes and take other steps in Katie Phang’s Epstein files lawsuit by September 24. Phang says Blanche is continuing his “Herculean efforts” to avoid turning over the files.
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🎃 Rob Gotobed's first comedy book, The Canyons Of Rob Gotobed's Overactive Mind, contains the funniest Halloween story you'll ever read! 👻☠️🧛♂️🎃
IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz
Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz
Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
September 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
🎃 Rob Gotobed's first comedy book, The Canyons Of Rob Gotobed's Overactive Mind, contains the funniest Halloween story you'll ever read! 👻☠️🧛♂️🎃
IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz
Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
IMDb: bit.ly/4eE9yxz
Books: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
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I think I may have found Harry Potter’s lost umbrella! If it’s yours, Harry, please get in touch and I’ll happily pop it in the post and send it back to you—no magic required!
September 11, 2026 at 6:32 AM
I think I may have found Harry Potter’s lost umbrella! If it’s yours, Harry, please get in touch and I’ll happily pop it in the post and send it back to you—no magic required!
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This is how stupid our moronic president sounds. What a total Idiot and disgrace.
September 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM
This is how stupid our moronic president sounds. What a total Idiot and disgrace.
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The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
September 18, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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‘(I never saw a hoopoe –
Unless I was alone –
Except some interloper
Took out their telephone.)’
From ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’ by @aestallings.bsky.social.
Read here:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Unless I was alone –
Except some interloper
Took out their telephone.)’
From ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’ by @aestallings.bsky.social.
Read here:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’
www.lrb.co.uk
September 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM
‘(I never saw a hoopoe –
Unless I was alone –
Except some interloper
Took out their telephone.)’
From ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’ by @aestallings.bsky.social.
Read here:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Unless I was alone –
Except some interloper
Took out their telephone.)’
From ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’ by @aestallings.bsky.social.
Read here:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson
September 19, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
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‘Literary criticism, above all, is about particularities. It's about looking at a poem and saying something about this poem and not another poem. And that means it should be defended as a particularity.’
Colin Burrow on the point of criticism, on the podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Colin Burrow on the point of criticism, on the podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
What’s the point of literary criticism?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 18 September · 37min
podcasts.apple.com
September 19, 2026 at 7:15 AM
‘Literary criticism, above all, is about particularities. It's about looking at a poem and saying something about this poem and not another poem. And that means it should be defended as a particularity.’
Colin Burrow on the point of criticism, on the podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Colin Burrow on the point of criticism, on the podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Idea for a double tribute band: the Peep Show Boys.
September 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Idea for a double tribute band: the Peep Show Boys.
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‘The last half-century has seen an unprecedented flurry of legislation to control immigration, until the grand culmination of Brexit and the fresh unfurling of St George flags completed a millennium of pogroms and riots.’
Ferdinand Mount on England and immigration:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ferdinand Mount on England and immigration:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ferdinand Mount · Modest and Misunderstood: Wretched Strangers
In the great immigration panics of today, sympathy is focused on the home team. We are the ones who are being hurt. It...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
‘The last half-century has seen an unprecedented flurry of legislation to control immigration, until the grand culmination of Brexit and the fresh unfurling of St George flags completed a millennium of pogroms and riots.’
Ferdinand Mount on England and immigration:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ferdinand Mount on England and immigration:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
September 19, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
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Virtually everyone in the United States is affected by taxes in some way, so we are all taxpayers.
And John Fugelsang is absolutely on the money here.
Trump’s lack of constitutional knowledge is alwayson full display.
And John Fugelsang is absolutely on the money here.
Trump’s lack of constitutional knowledge is alwayson full display.
September 19, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Virtually everyone in the United States is affected by taxes in some way, so we are all taxpayers.
And John Fugelsang is absolutely on the money here.
Trump’s lack of constitutional knowledge is alwayson full display.
And John Fugelsang is absolutely on the money here.
Trump’s lack of constitutional knowledge is alwayson full display.
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"under the influence of the Elizabethans, particularly Shakespeare, Pavese began to embrace the expressive power of imagery as a narrative nucleus."
Max Norman on Cesare Pavese's Hard Labour, translated into English by William Arrowsmith and reissued by us last year.
@harpers.bsky.social
Max Norman on Cesare Pavese's Hard Labour, translated into English by William Arrowsmith and reissued by us last year.
@harpers.bsky.social
Missing in Action, by Max Norman
The myth of Cesare Pavese
harpers.org
September 18, 2026 at 8:11 PM
"under the influence of the Elizabethans, particularly Shakespeare, Pavese began to embrace the expressive power of imagery as a narrative nucleus."
Max Norman on Cesare Pavese's Hard Labour, translated into English by William Arrowsmith and reissued by us last year.
@harpers.bsky.social
Max Norman on Cesare Pavese's Hard Labour, translated into English by William Arrowsmith and reissued by us last year.
@harpers.bsky.social
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Dash Shaw & Jesse Moynihan continue the Like Swimmers & Forming tour tonight at @atomicbooks.bsky.social in Baltimore.
(photo from last night at Desert Island)
atomicbooks.com/pages/upcomi...
(photo from last night at Desert Island)
atomicbooks.com/pages/upcomi...
September 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Dash Shaw & Jesse Moynihan continue the Like Swimmers & Forming tour tonight at @atomicbooks.bsky.social in Baltimore.
(photo from last night at Desert Island)
atomicbooks.com/pages/upcomi...
(photo from last night at Desert Island)
atomicbooks.com/pages/upcomi...