"Hey, this literature isn't avant-garde at all!" I exclaim. But the crafty bourgeois realism bookseller has already disappeared in the crowd

Every time I’m in Union Square I think about how Tammany Hall, the seat of power for New York for decades, is now a Petco

"Relics" - Charles Wright

Fragrances to wear while reading Lucan's Civil War: open.substack.com/pub/lacachet...

The people out here calling Scrivener "intuitive" have a lot to answer for.

A gorgeous lady in Flatiron making a convincing case for the return of the tapestry coat this morning - she looked like a figure from a Fragonard painting hopped out of her gilded frame to take the dog for a walk.

Why Lacan Loved Harpo Marx A surprising encounter between high theory & Hollywood farce reshapes how we think about laughter & desire. By: Angelica Frey daily.jstor.org/why-lacan-lo... Humor & Comedy at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #literature

This Chieftains album is wall-to-wall bangers. FORMATIVE.

RIP Len Deighton: “When I started writing I had rules. One was that violence must not solve the problem, and I cannot have the hero overcome violence with a counterweight of violence.” He also worked as an illustrator for six years, including a Penguin Iris Murdoch & a Deutsch Jack Kerouac

Len Deighton obituary: writer who redefined spy thrillers dies aged 97

Pharsalia goes so hard.

There's really nothing for a person's self esteem like taking your own digital passport photo.

Do I know anyone who worked in finance when Excel started to take off who can talk to me about what that was like?

Every time I leave the house I see the most beautifully stylish women, just going about their day teaching me new things about texture and layering. They do it for themselves.

"what do you mean bluesky is an echo chamber," I demand as I join the time war against the Ingalls family

Oh good gravy. Burke had thoughts on a lot of things, and they were mostly, at the end of the day, about boobs. Signed, an actual eighteenth-century scholar.

Oh okay, now they are offering 20% off. That's more like it.

I just got an email from a fragrance shop with the subject line "Women's Day is Closer Than You Think" and now I feel vaguely menaced.

People say A Dance To The Music Of Time has little relevance to the modern world but the saga of the Dubai Influencers is absolutely the kind of thing that would be happening offstage to some terrible minor character

Philly cheesesteak hamantaschen when

I feel like when you go to Philly, they should hand you a cheesesteak when you get off the plane, like they do with leis in Hawaii.

thought you probably needed to see this

balzac is so real. capturing the exact spiral of going to a real city for the first time, melting down that everyone you see is more attractive and fashionable than you even thought was physically possible, cheering yourself up by getting a nice dinner, crashing again when you see the bill.

Watching everyone in the city except this one specific Pilates studio announce that they are closed tomorrow morning

Let’s go

Oh I am so glad to read this. Wonder Boys is a touchstone for me in so many ways, and the film is a marvel. (The Passover Seder in the book is one of the great literary delights).

perfection

Is that bad

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

I used to go mini viral on Twitter semi regularly by just posting this image of John leguizamo and saying: Ladies and gentlemen, John leguizamo

Everyone on this staircase can tell I'm having mondo l'esprit de l'escalier

History would really be different if Henry VI had that dawg in him, huh

These kids are actually holding the fabric of the universe together through their goodness and humor and curiosity

I wrote about how personal crisis veers into the absurd when your travel steamer gets recalled: lacachette.substack.com/p/indignity-...

@financialtimes.com, you are my favorite paper, but this image does not include a five-layer burrito. That right there is an obvious Crunchwrap Supreme.

I wrote about how personal crisis veers into the absurd when your travel steamer gets recalled: lacachette.substack.com/p/indignity-...

We do not talk, as a society, about how good he and Jane Krakowski are in “Go.”

Got my A machines on the table got my GLPs in the drawer

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

I’ve always understood that the key to romantic success is to finish as rapidly as possible rather than take your time over anything

the dark academia losers can try as hard as they like, they aren’t ruining “admiring a view of an edinburgh skyline on a gloomy day”

This was so beautiful and affirming.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

God, what a depressing child.

Free to read, no subscription or sign in required

bars