They don’t make chapter headings like this anymore. What a book.

“Unravel thy gibberish!” …said by a character in PIERRE

'Lalage, on the other hand, lay on a mossy bank of dark delicious green, with her hands clasped behind her golden head, while that nice young man who drove too fast peeled her a nectarine, and told her about motorcars.' #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/m...

Great thread

“It is said that effort is its own reward,” said Lavinia. “Perhaps that is why it often has no other.”

In Seattle again, where the bookstores never disappoint me.

"In a sense he will not die.” “In a poor sense,” said Teresa, “as he will not be alive.”

Going through a shelf of little books I came across this Jean Follain chapbook I’d forgotten about.

What excellent books are published by Wakefield Press. Many of these I acquired on my most recent trip to Seattle, Elliott Bay Books being stunningly loaded with them.

Hiver — verrerie vide

“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

Heads up. Jacques Abeille’s Les Jardins statuaires has been translated into English and is getting published by NYRB. www.nyrb.com/products/the...

Shout-out to a strange and wonderful book…

Plus a power station, and both by Giles Gilbert Scott.

look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think

the wild horse in us

New Directions finally releasing titles of forthcoming previously unpublished Henry Green novels

Sunday morning music youtu.be/U82XDSw6hjA?...

“I wish to God you could pay more money.” I wrote about F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish, and how his difficult final year led him to produce some of his best work: the irresistible, cynical, revealing and very funny Pat Hobby stories.

“la roue du devenir” “the wheel of Fluxion”

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Noël (à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)

Wallace Stevens, from “The Pure Good of Theory”

See what's coming from us in spring 2026. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

Do I have news for you! theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/t...

Fellini: “It is natural that when a person is being totally honest, he shouldn’t be understood. Lies are understood by everyone.”

"You've got podcasters mate" www.tiktok.com/@barryferns/...

Good morning! C'est le plus beau Et c'est le plus triste C'est le plus beau Paysage du monde youtu.be/RhChLrhTJDE?...

“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”

a poem I adore for this early evening by Jean Follain

Post a perfect album from 1989

“Maria lit candles in silver-branched candlesticks. They were old candles, and had burned unevenly, so that the flames quivered in the air on either side of their silver stems; like someone balancing with outstretched arms on a rope.”

Jean Follain klaxon!

Early in the morning here but this has already made my day

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

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A first shot at a review of NOUVELLE VAGUE, Richard Linklater's homage to A Bout de Souffle, my favourite ever movie. Yeah, it's another 'love letter to cinema', but it's an intelligent document of clear-eyed devotion, written by an honest lover, to something that is genuinely worth loving.

New review: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 by Juvenal (tr. Peter Green (1967)) www.complete-review.com/reviews/lati...

Excellent thread

Next time I'm on the wrong side of an argument with my wife, I'm going to say "My wording was insufficient due to time constraints". (Moroi's actual comment on Twitter is 質問時間がない中での言葉足らずでありミスです。). www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

One of the best things I’ve done in my life is get poems by heart. Boring meetings/speeches/train delays/medical tests/surgery/chemo — all survivable by unreeling in my mind “The fountains are dry and the roses over” or “yagate shinu” or “Souvent, pour s’amuser” or “Call the roller of big cigars”…

“I don't call it gossip," said Misty. "I call it ‘emotional speculation.'” —Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

Trollope is very sound on churches imo — (maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)

Happy memory time: Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC. IFKYK

“hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations”

Sven was compact and well made, like a good canoe. Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked It Over