Ben O'Connell

@benjaminoc.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, promiscuous reader, former music geek, wannabe movie nerd, Montanan, NE DC Canine Knucklehead Ward co-founder, C-SPAN director of editorial operations

The Witch by Marie Ndiaye
The poster for City of the Dead (1960)
Me dressed as a hobbit; Novoselic dressed as Gandalf
The Mulai by Munir Hachemi, translated by Julia Sanches
Mariette Navarro’s ULTRAMARINE, translated by Eve Hill-Agnus
Image for the short-lived (8 episodes) CBS show Otherworld
The Wall by John Lanchester
The books and a Strand shopping bag on a table. The books are: The King Is Dead by Walter Tevis It’s Superman by Tom DeHaven An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
What: Alan Partridge's Literary Luminaries Where: Linton Travel Tavern in Cambridgeshire, England When: Monday, May 11, 2026 Moderator: Alan Partridge, host of "Mid Morning Matters" on North Norfolk Digital Radio 9am: Historical Atrocities in Literature Human Acts by Han Kang Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez The Wax Child by Olga Ravn 10:30am: Dark Humor The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell Blackwater by Michael McDowell God’s Country by Percival Everett 12:30pm: What the Heck Did I Just Read? Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza 2pm: Rock Novels Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand Gone to the Wolves by John Wray Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie 3:30pm: Film Novels Zeroville by Steve Erickson Experimental Film by Gemma Files The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade Flicker by Theodore Roszak
Briar Rose by Robert Coover
If people can be frightened out of their wits by mythical men from Mars, they can be frightened into fanaticism by the fear of Reds, or convinced America is in the hands of 60 families, or aroused to revenge against any minority, or terrorized into subservience to leadership because of any imaginable menace.