Literary Man; Author of JAMES PURDY: LIFE OF A CONTRARIAN WRITER (Oxford UP); OUR OSAGE HILLS; JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS: LIFE OF AN OSAGE WRITER. jazz, dub, 1960s
Oklahoma, USA
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Thank you, Dawn!
If you're at all excited about Killers of the Flower Moon, you should also check out OUR OSAGE HILLS, a collection of lost articles by Osage writer John Joseph Mathews, edited by @AmLit7 & published by @LehighPress #KillersoftheFlowerMoon
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“Despite literature’s high-brow aura, the appetite for lost books echoes not only the world of used bookstores, but the present yearning for a less predigested, more incautious mode of cultural life that still lurks in living memory.” —Jonathan Lethem go.nybooks.com/4zi00PY
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- the sublime fanaticism of OU Sooner sports fans
- Indigenous counterstories
- introducing neurodiversity for educators
- the combat future of the human body
University press books = not boring!!!
Take a look at the new @OUPress Fall 2026 catalog > oupress.com/fall-winter-2026…
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Writers who taught at the OU Professional Writing program, from Dwight Swain's 1973 OU Press book "Techniques of the Selling Writer":
Two women that wrote "confessions," a man who wrote "in the men's field," and someone who had a short story turned into an Elvis Presley movie.
I had a conference in Austin and did some serious book shopping afterward at Book People. They have a spinner rack full of NYRB Classics. The bottom four were sale books. @nyrbclassics
I am re-reading Nabokov’s campus novel PNIN with great pleasure. (Remember when book covers were good?) Graham Greene’s quotation on the cover is apt: “Hilariously funny and of a sadness.” Brilliantly written, satiric, and nostalgic for a lost world.
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Frenemies in the early days before the troubles - Gore Vidal (b. 3 October), Truman Capote (b. 30 September), and Tennessee Williams, gay literary giants of the mid-20th Century 🏳️🌈
The La’s, The Hollow Men, Milltown Brothers, The Charlatans, The High, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Primal Scream, New Fast Automatic Daffodils.🌼
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Look at that! Beautiful. Originally came out in 2018. Big thanks to Zac for putting this out. Pre-order this thing. Thanks.
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It’s mine too!
Happy Birthday to Strangeways,Here We Come. Album released this day in 1987 by The Smiths. Their fourth and final album. Johnny Marr intended it as an homage to early records by The Walker Brothers. Morrissey,Marr and Mike Joyce say it is their favourite Smiths album #TheSmiths
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In honor of U2’s 50th anniversary, a remembrance thread below on the two concerts @U2 played on MacArthur Boulevard and Portland Avenue in Northwest OKC.
Yes, it really happened…
As you might have seen, U2 recently debuted their residency at the $2.3 billion Sphere venue in Las Vegas.
Almost anytime I think about U2, I can’t help but think about their performances in Oklahoma City over 40 years ago at venues that were somewhat less grandiose.
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There’s this guy on insta doing show and tell with his records, and while he has good taste, it’s just too much like a parody of myself lol.
C’mon Chapterhouse people, don’t sleep on this 1997 deep electronica album by Andrew Sherriff and Simon Gotel “Coming Up for Air” as bio. com. They also did 12”s and remixes as Bionic. Some of it is reminiscent of Blood Music and its remixes by Global Communications.
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Airiel - Firefly
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RIP Pete Byrne from the brilliant English synthpop duo, Naked Eyes. Their first album, released in Spring 1983, remains stunningly good. I really loved him and musical genius Rob Fisher, who we lost in 1999. Hits included Promises, Promises; Always Something There to Remind Me.
Naked Eyes frontman Pete Byrne dead at 74
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Chapterhouse, Asteroid #4, Spirea X, Field Mice, Blind Mr Jones, Slowdive, Vibrasonic, Pastels, Ride, Lida Husik, Spectrum, Mahogany, Lush, Telescopes, Spiritualized.
The title More Songs about Buildings and Food should be much more familiar, like Sgt. Pepper’s, Rumours, Nevermind.
