Sir Anthony after inhaling a pup cup. #tongueouttuesday

I don't have letterboxd but #lastfourwatched are: Train Dreams (2025) Hard to Handle (1933) Withering Heights (2026) Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

I picked up (yet another) Hermes 3000. This one had keys like I had never seen before, QWERTY but with various other diacritical marks--does anyone know what the mark that's like an o with a line under (last photo) is meant to indicate?

Picked these up at the great @ebbooksellers.bsky.social last night. A must-visit if you are anywhere in the Bay really. Monsieur Teste translated by @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social une traductrice formidable ! @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Hours of fun

ACID GREEN VELVET will rock you out in September I believe

An astonishing bolt from the past. My old band Fletcher (1994-96) turned up on a website devoted to obscure MI punk rock. That's me on vocal/guitar. This was in the dead heart of my Jawbreaker fixation. As will be quite clear to certain listeners. michigangraveyard.blogspot.com/2026/02/flet...

@maxmcguinness.bsky.social writes in search of Proust’s legacy in Ireland: “If it makes sense to speak of an Irish Proust, it is as one strand within the wider continental perspective that frames his Search.”

Forthcoming from New Directions in October: my translation of LONDON by Louis-Ferdinand Céline! Probably the most difficult book of all the 50+ books I've translated, for many reasons...

I have read this one! And the cover absolutely nails it. very excited about this long-awaited follow-up by one of my favorite writers.

Some great performances in genre movies recently. Amanda Seyfried in The Housemaid Ralph Fiennes in The 28 Years later films Bill Skarsgård in the overlooked Dead Man's Wire ...and now a fantastic fully-committed-to-the-madness Rachel McAdams in Send Help

I got tired of lugging that single-volume brick around. So look what I got! So handy, only 7 x 4.25". And such pretty covers too. (The brick, shown for reference, measures 8.125 x 5.5".) Direct from #Gallimard. #Proust #Proustsky

A brief overview of the translation of a single word in #Proust "nostalgique" Le Côté de Guermantes "...mon imagination monotonement nostalgique." Moncrieff (and Moncrieff/Carter), The Guermantes Way "...my monotonously lovesick imagination."

Mon deuxième tatouage. #Proust

#childhoodcinema Eastowne 5 Kalamazoo MI. I saw countless movies there from (at least) RAIDERS/LOST ARK all the way through 1990s change to 2nd run dollar theater. Would go back to things like TOP GUN 2-3 times. (had first kiss there during 18 AGAIN!, 1988)

"Poets imagine that we rediscover our previous selves momentarily when we return to a garden or house where we lived in our youth. These are quite capricious pilgrimages that can bring disappointment as much as elation. It is far preferable to find *within ourselves* the particular places

Currently reading: FOX by Joyce Carol Oates ( @joycecaroloates.bsky.social ) whose use of quotation marks and exclamation points is "sui generis"--unrivaled, and exquisite! I say this with admiration, it's a hard one to put down.

Yesterday I went to see new AVATAR 3D. And it was...another Avatar picture, stunning to behold in the moment but with (imo) dull characters, story, & dialog; guaranteed not to linger in memory. Then in the evening watched NOUVELLE VAGUE which was great fun--Jean S & Belmondo actors were uncanny!

Listening to INXS' Kick for the first time in...decades? possibly. Album brimming with inescapable smash hits--but as I sit studying LP cover (front & back) I increasingly fixate on the fact that amid all the leather & usual cool rock poses there is... a guy riding a skateboard in midair

Last 5 movies watched: Stolen Kisses, Truffaut, 1968 Antoine et Colette, Truffaut, 1962 The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966 Vice Squad, Gary Sherman, 1982 After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino Currently reading Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman--one of the best books I have read for some time

Oh yeah!! I am beyond thrilled to have the honor of an advance copy of Grace Krilanovich's new novel!!!

!!! Been waiting for this...

excited to continue my immersion in the Oxford #Proust. When first reading the Search in 2003 I struggled with this one, after the delicious seaside atmosphere of vol. 2, which I had greedily inhaled. Set the Search aside until 2014, & by then I was ready for Proust's vast social canvas.

At @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. A national treasure. Proust shelf features multiple translations/volumes of The Search plus related works. Including of course the new Oxford Proust, which includes @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social's gorgeous translation of vol. 2. #Proust #booksky #Proustsky

"The whole spark of writing the book emerged from a joke prompt, one of several I had on a list. 'Ancient Egypt High School,' things like that. I had written 'Slutty Teenage Hobo Vampire Junkies' on the list and a classmate said, 'You should write that.'” fantastic interview w/ one of my faves...

Found this lovely copy of THE LEMOINE AFFAIR, comprising Proust's pastiches of Flaubert, Balzac, etc., at Walden Pond Books, Oakland. Translated by the great Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social & published by @melvillehouse.bsky.social #Proust #Proustsky

Fellow Proustians, I did it, I made madeleines! #Proust #Proustsky

Alfred Dreyfus; a painting by Maira Kalman

Watched the George Lazenby Bond film, which I had never seen. I had low expectations but it was very good! Better than the last couple of Connery movies. Yes Lazenby is rather stiff but once Bond arrives at the evil clinic it really moves. Bonus points for Telly Savalas as Blofeld.

"...nothing can penetrate the armour of my sadness, my conviction that all those pages are execrable, a sort of indigestible nougat which sticks between one's teeth." Marcel Proust, June 1905, in a letter to a friend who wrote to express admiration for his essay "Sur la lecture" #Proust

Saturday night stopped at Moe's 10 minutes till close and found this-- @groveatlantic.bsky.social -- I read the Beckett Trilogy circa 2012 the same way I eventually completed THE SEARCH 2 years later--10 pages every morning first thing--(p.s. love you Barney Rosset & Dick Seaver!) #proust #proustsky

The art of literary translation is a source of fascination and amazement to me now-- I will never skim over another translator's name again--Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social brought a book I had read 3 times into miraculous new realms on a 4th read.

On Proust and the search for models of translation: “Indeed, it is a bummer to me that Proust occupies such a rarefied, even elitist, realm in the culture—to the extent he is present at all—because he is far more accessible than most people realize, and a lot funnier.”

"Je n'ai plus de passion, alors rappelez-vous : il vaut mieux brûler franchement que s'éteindre à petit feu. Paix, amour, compassion. Kurt Cobain." Sa lettre d’adieu, datée du 5 avril 1994, le jour de son suicide et adressée à un ami imaginaire. Une claque. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/CaC

Yes--and also funny! Proust's range is stunning. Obsessive love, childhood, politics, philosophy, sexuality, food, music, reading...on and on. And the many (many!) characters he introduces all have individual voices. One need not wait for a "let's read Proust together" group-- Dive in!

Cheers! Thank you! And yes, Charlotte's SHADOW slayed me. One of the great reading experiences I've had this year.

Quel temps fait-il ? 😂

Such a pleasure talking to Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social for this piece! I had just read her IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, a book I absolutely cherish, and was frankly in awe. #proust #proustsky

I wrote about Proust in translation/the new IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME for @literaryhub.bsky.social. Featuring a chat with @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social, whose stunning vol. 2 translation, IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, is out now! lithub.com/on-translati... #proust #booksky

Brief notes on the time I saw R.E.M., 9-9-89, Clarkston MI, one of the relatively few (?) truly euphoric nights of my life. medium.com/@bryanalista...

I made a "website"...trying to gather all (or most of) my writing in one place including things I had almost forgotten about e.g. turn-of-the-century pieces on @mcsweeneys.net -- also essays, critical pieces, a couple of short stories etc. www.bryanalistaircharles.com

James Dean with cousin Markie Winslow, Park Cemetery, Fairmount IN, February 1955, photo by Dennis Stock. Note name Cal on headstone is same as Dean’s character in EAST OF EDEN. Dean himself would be laid to rest in Park Cemetery eight months later. 8 February 1931- 30 September 1955 #filmsky

"Et, comme un aviateur qui a jusque-là péniblement roulé à terre 'décollant' brusquement, je m'élevais lentement vers les hauteurs silencieuses du souvenir." Proust, Le Temps retrouvé #proust #proustsky

"...les vrais livres doivent être les enfants non du grand jour et de la causerie mais de l'obscurité et du silence." Proust, Le Temps retrouvé ...real books should be the offspring not of daylight and casual talk but of darkness and silence. trans. Mayor/Kilmartin/Enright #proust #proustsky

Last week I watched the great SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, by William Greaves. Not sure I had expectations per se, but whatever I had assumed the film might be like... it was not like that at all. Amazing. Highly recommended. #filmsky

My newest machine. Late 1950s Hermes 2000. Has a really crisp, snappy touch, much different from the 3000, and a heavy carriage shift, similar to an Olympia SM3, maybe even a touch heavier. New platen as well!

PARIS DU TEMPS PERDU. The photographs of Eugène Atget with text by #Proust. Edita Lausanne, 1963 #booksky #Proustsky

Two more Moe's finds. Centennial Proust pub. 1971 w/ photos & essays (including by Philip Kolb & Anthony Powell!). And massive edition of SWANN'S WAY pub. 1954 by The Limited Editions Club & featuring illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. #booksky #Proust #Proustsky

Founds these at the great Recycle Bookstore, San Jose CA, neither of which I know anything about. (Latter given to "me" April 1964 by Miss Jennie Lernhart.) #Proust #booksky

dear @danielsilvabooks.bsky.social, I like the feel of the Ticonderoga in my hand & on page. Also the eraser. But it is a touch too light for me. I bought a box of the black ones thinking they might be darker but no 😂 Stays sharper longer than the Blackwing though. I will keep them in rotation! ✏️📝