Eric Passaglia
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marchand de nuages
They don’t make chapter headings like this anymore. What a book.
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“Unravel thy gibberish!” …said by a character in PIERRE
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JacquiWine
about 1 month ago
'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
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Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard
While Elizabeth Jane Howard is best known for her multigenerational family epic, The Cazalet Chronicles, in 1975, she published a collection of short stories, Mr Wrong, which demonstrates a darker,…
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/mr-wrong-by-elizabeth-jane-howard/
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Great thread
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
about 1 month ago
“It is said that effort is its own reward,” said Lavinia. “Perhaps that is why it often has no other.”
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In Seattle again, where the bookstores never disappoint me.
2 months ago
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
3 months ago
"In a sense he will not die.” “In a poor sense,” said Teresa, “as he will not be alive.”
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Going through a shelf of little books I came across this Jean Follain chapbook I’d forgotten about.
3 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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Hiver — verrerie vide
3 months ago
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Frances Evangelista
4 months ago
“Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?” Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
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Andrei
4 months ago
Heads up. Jacques Abeille’s Les Jardins statuaires has been translated into English and is getting published by NYRB.
www.nyrb.com/products/the...
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The Statuary Gardens
In an unnamed country where the men cultivate statues and the women are nowhere to be seen, a traveler takes a room at an inn. One foggy morning, a mysterious man invites him to take him on a tour of ...
https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-statuary-gardens
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Shout-out to a strange and wonderful book…
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4 months ago
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Christopher White
4 months ago
Plus a power station, and both by Giles Gilbert Scott.
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phil
4 months ago
look upon my works, ye mighty, and let me know what you think
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the wild horse in us
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5 months ago
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New Directions finally releasing titles of forthcoming previously unpublished Henry Green novels
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5 months ago
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Sunday morning music
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Louis Moholo Octet - Wedding Hymn (Spirits Rejoice! 1978)
YouTube video by pipefx64
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John Self
5 months ago
“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.
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When F Scott Fitzgerald’s Christmas wish came true
The Pat Hobby stories about a washed-up writer in Hollywood were written to make money fast — they are also the final flowering of Fitzgerald’s eccentric genius
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/d9bb50b9-2af0-476d-9764-d4d254f3a9c4
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“la roue du devenir” “the wheel of Fluxion”
5 months ago
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Noël (à tréma, comme deux flammes de bougie)
5 months ago
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Wallace Stevens, from “The Pure Good of Theory”
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New York Review Books
5 months ago
See what's coming from us in spring 2026.
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Andrei
6 months ago
Do I have news for you!
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Fellini: “It is natural that when a person is being totally honest, he shouldn’t be understood. Lies are understood by everyone.”
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6 months ago
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Paul Haine
about 1 year ago
"You've got podcasters mate"
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Good morning! C'est le plus beau Et c'est le plus triste C'est le plus beau Paysage du monde
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John Cage Bubblegum
YouTube video by Stereolab - Topic
https://youtu.be/RhChLrhTJDE?si=X8Y5lFMoTu05Xr_V
7 months ago
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“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”
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Catherine Eaton
7 months ago
a poem I adore for this early evening by Jean Follain
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Post a perfect album from 1989
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7 months ago
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“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.”
7 months ago
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Jean Follain klaxon!
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7 months ago
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Early in the morning here but this has already made my day
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7 months ago
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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7 months ago
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Jonathan Gibbs
7 months ago
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.
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A ★★★★★ review of Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Well, there was a lot riding on this. A Bout de Souffle has been my favourite film basically since I saw it: a vision of cinematic modernity and cool – cool as modernity, modernity as cool – that I re...
https://boxd.it/bptw1h
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M.A.Orthofer
7 months ago
New review: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 by Juvenal (tr. Peter Green (1967))
www.complete-review.com/reviews/lati...
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The Sixteen Satires - Juvenal
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal.
https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/latin/juvenal.htm
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Excellent thread
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7 months ago
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8 months ago
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。).
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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”…
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“I don't call it gossip," said Misty. "I call it ‘emotional speculation.'” —Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time
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Trollope is very sound on churches imo — (maybe this is one for
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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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
8 months ago
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“hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations”
9 months ago
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Sven was compact and well made, like a good canoe. Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked It Over
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