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Adam's Quarterly Film Roundup
Everything seems kinda fucked this week, eh?
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I love reading old newspapers
Adam's Notes for September 11, 2025
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Heatwave
You know that Japanese term that translates as ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’?
Sep 4
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August 2025
The Strange Case of Mary Carleton
Friday May 29, 1663 was a holiday, King Charles II’s birthday—though in his diary, Samuel Pepys accidentally put it down as the anniversary of Charles’s…
Aug 28
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Two sophisticated novels for adults... and one with dinosaurs
Adam's Notes for August 21, 2025
Aug 21
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Journeys to Renaissance Italy... and Yorkshire, for some reason...
Adam's Notes for August 14, 2025
Aug 14
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“I find myself a very rising man”
Pepys Show: August 1662
Aug 7
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July 2025
Summer reading roundup
Adam's Notes for July 31, 2025
Jul 31
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Why can't the King command the rain?
Pepys Show: July 1662
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Eric's Notes: Robert E. Howard, Grettir the Outlaw, and the origins of two-fisted Weird Fiction
I’m a big fan of Eric Williams’s blog, where he posts his read-throughs of classic pulp fiction.
Jul 10
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Q&A with Ivy Grimes, author of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion
This week I spoke with Ivy Grimes, whose debut novel The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion was recently published by Cemetery Gates Media. It’s about a pair of…
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June 2025
The Righteous Anger of Venetians
Or, the Bezos-Ariosto connection
Jun 28
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