Donna Tartt talks to Antonio Monda www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2025...

These July & September skeets from @lizthegringa.bsky.social map a corner of Tarttlandia more usefully than so many of the earnest essays ... Donna Tartt ... #booksky

To illustrate research perspectives made possible by the forthcoming ——— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described ——— My new longish essay – Dark Academia in Early 1990s New York City ——— #booksky #blackbooksky #vampires medium.com/@tartt-abc/d...

Forthcoming Catalogue of Phenomena Generated by Readings of "Donna Tartt" ——— republished from Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 102 (spring 2025) ——— #booksky ——— medium.com/@tartt-abc/f...

Formal Notice to Academic Litcritters ———————————— Russia owns Donna Tartt ———————————— Latest evidence for my claim: K.M. Baranova & N.S. Shalimova Main characters in D. Tartt’s prose: exploring the hero 
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Pessl's inventio = transcribe Donna Tartt ? ————— art student … labyrinth of wit and murder a cultural phenomenon … meteoric rise shunned formal interviews … staged photo ops astronomical bids … never married ————— page from Darkly / Marisha Pessl - 2024 #DarkAcademia #booksky

John Banville on Donna Tartt 6 Sept 2011 ——— Looks like Banville has more than one recollection of that one Miami evening ——— #anecdote #cosmopolitanism

John Banville on Donna Tartt 22 Oct 2024 ——— Funny thing I've had precisely the same experience without ever spending even that one evening with the persona ——— The Mysteries of Self-Replication Echo the Oread #offstaging #anecdote

When queried by a bibliographer the synthetic proclivities of an AI cost efforts & yield frustrations like these 3 ghosts of works that Donna Tartt never wrote: ————————— "The Writer's Life" "The Spirit of the Place" "A Gloom of Pearls" ————————— Yet this last title entices me no end #booksky

some Donna Tartt phenomena exclude themselves from The Catalogue one method is to paywall & to dis-library & then to come across as too insignificant for this cataloguer to fork out for may each such phenomenon self-consume & disappear forever yours too Gyles Brandreth ✣ ✣ ✣ #booksky ✣ ✣ ✣

ChatGPT confesses it has a long way to go to "know" anything reliable about the published writings of Donna Tartt ... unlike ——————————————————— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described ——————————————————— #booksky

Who teams up to bestsellerize All the Pretty Horses / Cormac McCarthy in May 1992? —————————— agent Amanda Urban publisher Sonny Mehta editor Gary Fisketjon designer Chip Kidd —————————— The very same quartet bestsellerizes The Secret History / Donna Tartt in September 1992 —————————— #booksky

It was around Easter time that magistrician Donna Tartt wrote the Bunny to death in signature purple prose www.mentalfloss.com/easter-bunny... #histoires #booksky

? The next Donna Tartt ? blurbles @waterstones.bsky.social Lead-times in months 15 : TSH / 115 : TLF / 60 : TGF Back in fall 2013 some "idea" "excited" Tartt – but still no content indication Now into her sixties Tartt may be too smart to try to mfg one more teenager #booksky

Russian formalist analysis sees in the three Donna Tartt novels ————————————————— a single metatext about growing up ————————————————— Надежда Сергеевна Шалимова is onto the case and figures numerously in Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described ————— #booksky

Tartt folklorizing likes to go off on wild jags … Daddy Don becomes a bookworm … ——— Taylor and Don, a secretary and freeway service station owner, respectively — were avid bookworms who passed their love of literature on to their eldest daughter ——— www.michigandaily.com/arts/b-side/... #booksky

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social @harikunzru.bsky.social @jrnel.bsky.social Re: "Donna Tartt phase" ——— Accounts of changes in readings of Tartt over time become a subgenre in ——— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described #booksky

@ferikusu.bsky.social ... se deshincha ... Si. ¿Pero por qué? Tartt attributes eight years of writing to the first part of TSH ... and two years to the second part Info in obscure source discovered for —————————————————— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena —————————————————— #booksky

At some point after 1940 Tallahatchie County farmer Henry Wesley Tart 1877-1958 and two generations of offspring added a t onto the Tart surname ∴ Donna Tartt = first-generation total triple T #booksky

One fact detailed in the forthcoming Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena ——— In an obscure 2003 interview Donna Tartt says she has stopped smoking ——— @debwriting.bsky.social #booksky

Among the few dozens of works ✱ by ✱ Donna Tartt the least mediated may be an extract from her daily journaling translated into Dutch —————— Anticipate Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described in 2025 —————— #Amsterdam #booksky

Among the hundreds catalogued already ... this sharp new take on The Secret History / Donna Tartt from @shrimpchipsss.bsky.social in yaoi zine 5 via @tshirt.bsky.social #booksky

Paragraphs about and outline of ——————————————————— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described ——————————————————— now posted to Tartt ABCs medium.com/@tartt-abc/c... #booksky

@gordonmacmillan.bsky.social speculates around the possibilities of novel #4 from an over-mystified Donna Tartt —————————————————— • Definite inklings of content preceded #2 and #3 by … years • Well over 100 Tartt interviews exist

Le petit livre de Chloé Saffy a trouvé sa place parmi les ———————————————————— 999+ Sources Discovered and Described de Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena ———————————————————— @lefeusacreeditions.bsky.social @mariannetramoy.bsky.social

Web site now up for ——————————————————— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described ——————————————————— Release projected for later 2025 medium.com/@tartt-abc/t... #booksky #writingcommunity #selfpub #indie

The Secret History / Donna Tartt reviewed by @kirjalate.bsky.social —————————————————— The 91st review of TSH discovered by Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena —————————————————— bsky.app/profile/kirj...

Anecdotal metric just in from @danziger.bsky.social === Students not adapting to a world obsessed with STEM & FIRE === Fantasy? Having a student life & skipping all the classes === World of murder ... à la Tartt

Jones : Tartt :: Kierkegaard : Adler ————————————————— chiasmus of renown

> Field Note < Marc Harrington is using quotation from a 7 May 2012 letter from Donna Tartt to Claude Fredericks to promote publishing of extracts from the Fredericks journal at @extracts.substack.com

Insightful report on contextual use ———————————————— The Secret History / Donna Tartt ———————————————— by medievalist Zachary Hines at Ohio State University–Lima

Adumbrate? Always. Explicate? Sometimes. Adulate? Never.

12 September 2024 into Catalan appears to be the most recently published translation of The Secret History / Donna Tartt

Perspicuous and apposite juxtaposition of two passages in The Little Friend / Donna Tartt from @evs11.bsky.social === Somewhere in interview Tartt says Harriet does not change – So, not a coming-of-age story ... More like willful persistence of fixed character === bsky.app/profile/evs1...

A bibliographic detail brought to the fore in a first-time-ever for @lissaj.bsky.social ——————————————————— Cloister is the font in a 1992 printing of The Secret History / Donna Tartt ——————————————————— bsky.app/profile/liss...

——————————————————— Plot points in hindsight from the POV of someone who wasn't present ——————————————————— Acute exposition of fundamental device in The Secret History / Donna Tartt Credit to @upmosttoaster.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/upmo...

Knowing two hundred novels is already difficult – Franco Moretti Knowing one writer of a few fictions is already difficult – Joseph Jones

It looks like «Donna Tartt» first emerges on the Bluesky platform in a «rediscovering» by @annagat.bsky.social ~~~ A consummate cosmopolitan intros an Interintellect round-up with a mini-memoir of youthful yearning ~~~ The white-hot branding iron glows in the fascinating fire ~~~ #scrollbacking ~~~

‪ ‪————————————————————— phenomenon / phenomenal ————————————————————— seven occurrences in The Secret History —————————————————————

Anastasia Zavozova observes that Monday December 28 is the one exact date found in The Goldfinch. Today is a Saturday. This year & not this year.

The Bluesky account @donna-tartt.com persisted as a phenomenon for at least 285 days from first recorded observation Mar 4 to last recorded observation Dec 14

Donna Louise Tartt 23 Dec 1963 - Greenwood, Mississippi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ granddaughter of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Florence Louise Boushe 30 Nov 1911 - 11 Aug 2012 Grenada, Mississippi

Ayşegül Savaş wrote an essay •In•Defense•of•Boris•the•Russki• on character depiction by Donna Tartt About four years onwards comes this congruent on-the-ground reader response from @disarmonia.bsky.social ...

Death of Doctor Faustus ~~~~~~ Elvis in Hell ☩ ☩ One of the two once dwelt in Graceland

The current Wikipedia entry «Donna Tartt» exemplifies the sadness of that encyclopedic enterprise. The funniest of the botches? Footnote 10 of 53 refers to a single November 1941 issue of a stillborn Mississippi literary serial that has nothing to do with Tartt. #tartt

Playmates: Dorothy Gale, Jim Hawkins, Dolores Haze, Peter Pan, Mattie Ross, Oliver Twist #tartt

Williams College situates about 13 miles south of Bennington College. In October 2024 the Williams student newspaper grinds lots of grist from 3 profs & 5 students on how the college does & does not channel The Secret History. The piece quotes Professor of English Gage McWeeny at greatest length.

At the front end of her Literary Assassin essay, a Nov 2024 promo for new book Didion & Babitz. • Lili Anolik, three years onwards, ruminates for eight paragraphs about inflicting «inadvertent violence» on Donna Tartt in 2021. • Gist: My unconscious did it. • Wrap: At least Didi & Babs are dead. 📚💙

Ad fontes. Onstage at the age of four, Donna Tartt debuts as Little Miss Grenada Lake of 1968-1969 – Clarion-Ledger [Jackson MS] (17 June 1968) 2

My calling as a messenger is to wake you up