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Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer
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Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social · Jun 18
Once again, I’m reading Nabakov shit on your (and my) faves, while praising them too. Always a great time. #booksky 💙📚
Chesterton, G. K. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Romantic in the large sense. • Conan Doyle, Arthur. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14, but no longer. Essentially a writer for very young people. Romantic in the large sense. • Conrad, Joseph. A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Certainly inferior to Hemingway and Wells. Intolerable souvenir-shop style, romanticist clichés. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Romantic in the large sense. Slightly bogus. • Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously. • The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose." • The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely. • Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole. • Douglas, Norman. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. • Dreiser, Theodore. Dislike him. A formidable mediocrity. • Eliot, T. S. Not quite first-rate. • Emerson, Ralph Waldo. His poetry is delightful. • Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. • Flaubert, Gustave. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. • Forster, E. M. Only read one of his novels (possibly A Passage to India?) and disliked it. • Freud, Sigmund. A figure of fun. Loathe him. Vile deceit. Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense. • Galsworthy, John. A formidable mediocrity. • García Lorca, Federico. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. • Gogol, Nikolai. Nobody takes his mystical didacticism seriously. At his worst, as in his Ukrainian stu… • Hemingway, Ernest. A writer of books for boys. Certainly better than Conrad. Has at least a voice of his own. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Loathe his works about bells, balls, and bulls. • The Killers. Delightful, highly artistic. Admirable. • The Old Man and the Sea. Wonderful. The description of the iridescent fish and rhythmic urination is superb. • Housman, A. E. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. • Ilf and Petrov. Two wonderfully gifted writers. Absolutely first-rate fiction. • Ivanov, Georgy. A good poet but a scurrilous critic. • James, Henry. Dislike him rather intensely, but now and then his wording causes a kind of electric tingle. Certainly not a genius. • Joyce, James. Great. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. Let people compare me to Joyce by all means, but my English is patball to Joyce's champion game. A genius. • Ulysses. A divine work of art. Greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. Towers above the rest of Joyce's writing. Noble originality, unique lucidity of thought and style. Molly's monologue is the weakest chapter in the book. Love it for its lucidity and precision. • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Never liked it. A feeble and garrulous book. • Finnegans Wake. A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore. • Kafka, Franz. • The Metamorphosis. Second-greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. • Kazantzakis, Nikos. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. • Keats, John. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. • Khodasevich, Vladislav. The gr… • Lawrence, D. H. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes. Execrable. • Lowell, Robert. Not a good translator. A greater offender than Auden. • Mandelshtam, Osip. A wonderful poet, the greatest in Soviet Russia. His poems are admirable specimens of the human mind at its deepest and highest. Not as good as Blok. His tragic fate makes his poetry seem greater than it actually is. • Mann, Thomas. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. • Death in Venice. Asinine. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Poshlost. Mediocre, but anyway plausible. • Maupassant, Guy de. Certainly not a genius. • Maugham, W. Somerset. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes. Certainly not a genius. • Melville, Herman. Love him. One would like to have filmed him at breakfast, feeding a sardine to his cat. • Marx, Karl. Loathe him. • Milton, John. A genius. • Odoevsky, Vladimir. Indifferent to his works. • Yury Olesha. Some absolutely first-rate fiction. • Orczy, Baroness Emmuska. • The Scarlet Pimpernel. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, but no longer. • Pasternak, Boris. An excellent poet, but a poor novelist. • Doctor Zhivago. Detest it. Melodramatic and vilely written. To consider it a masterpiece is an absurd delusion. Pro-Bolshevist, historically false. A sorry thing, clumsy, trivial, melodramatic, with stock situations and trite coincidences. • Pirandello, Luigi. Never cared for him. • Plato. Not particularly fond of him. • Poe, Edgar Allan. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, but no longer. One would like to have filmed his wedding. • Pound, Ezra. Definitely second-rate. A total fake. A venerable fraud. • Proust, Marcel. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. • In Search of Lost Time. The first half is the fourth-greatest masterpiece of 20th-century prose. • Queneau, Raymond. • Exercises de style. A thrilling masterpiece, one of the greatest stories in French literature. • Zazie. Very fond of it. • Ransom, John Crowe. • Captain Carpenter. Admire this poem. • Rimbaud, Arthur. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. • Robbe-Grillet, Alain. Great. A favorite. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths! Lucidity of thought, purity of poetry. Magnificently poetical and original. • Rolland, Romain. A formidable mediocrity. • Salinger, J. D. By far one of the finest artists in recent years. • "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." A great story. A particular favorite. • Sartre, Jean-Paul. Even more awful than Camus. • Nausea. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing. • Schwartz, Delmore. • "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities." A particular favorite. • Schweitzer, Albert. Detest him. • Shakespeare, William. Read complete works between 14 and 15. One would like to have filmed him in the role of the King's Ghost. His verbal poetic texture is the greatest the world has ever known, and immensely superior to the structure of his plays as plays. It is the metaphor that is the thing, not the play. A genius. • Sterne, Laurence. Love him. • Sue, Eugène. Melodramatic, second-rate. • Tagore, Rabindranath. A formidable mediocrity. • Tolstoy, Aleksey. A writer of some talent with two or three science fiction stories or novels which are memorable. • Tolstoy, Leo. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. Nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. A genius. • Anna Karenina. Incomparable prose artistry. The supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature. • The Death of Ivan Ilyich. A close second to Anna Karenina. • Resurrection. Detest it. • The Kreutzer Sonata. Detest it. • War and Peace. A little too long. A rollicking historical novel written for the general reader, specifically for the young. Artistically unsatisfying. Cumbersome mes…
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I call this “The Vaudevillian’s Friend”
joshchafetz.bsky.social Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 4h
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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walter benjamin eat your heart out
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Rumbo a Panamá
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November 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 1, Episode 4
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Arthur McBride
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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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happy international men’s day
Vegetable in the pink shirt saying “I am doing a badman check in. I need six badmen to post, not share, this message to show you are always there if someone needs to talk. Pretty sure I know who will. Let’s go gentlemen…”
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Ghost delivers the same best supporting actor performance as Athena to Odysseus. Wish there were more playful experiments like this in modern (mainstream-ish) Hip Hop
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Rainy Dayz
YouTube video by Raekwon - Topic
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November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Audrey Plaza IS Wow Platinum
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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My stomach after eating a sloppy Joe and a slice of chocolate cake
November 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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This movie’s quite good and under appreciated. Give it a watch!

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LEAVE NO TRACE | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Bleecker Street
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November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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One way to look at this film - and the way I teach it - is as another of Hitch's cautionary tales for women against succumbing to domesticity. Credit Alma for this throughline in his major films & note how both of his pics w/Tippi end w/her "married"... and catatonic. Also "birds" = "girls" in UK.
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Finale performance of "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" at the 1989 Induction Ceremony
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November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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dong lemon
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Hard Boiled, The Killer, Better Tomorrow trilogy and Bullet in the Head all getting 4K releases
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz
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November 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Max Headroom
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Tubby soy
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Still can’t believe this is real
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Larry's Tex-Mex.
I couldn't resist.
Larry's Tex-Mex. I couldn't resist.
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Part of an ongoing policy to blame those already marginalized medically for being disproportionately impacted.

The same decades old policy that blames Black people for poor perinatal health outcomes because they can't individually overcome structural racism.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Someone found an mp3 of the creepy "Jailbait" song Olivia Nuzzi released when she was 16 🫣
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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“JOHNSON. PUT THE LEMONADE BACK ON THE MENU. IF THEY WANNA DIE LET THEM DIE.”
cnbc.com CNBC @cnbc.com · 14h
Once the top U.S. fast-casual chain, Panera has dipped to number three, falling behind Chipotle and Panda Express.

Now, to try to win back consumers, the chain plans to reinvest in the business and undo many previously implemented cost-cutting measures, it said Tuesday.

Full story: cnb.cx/487BuFk
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Gregg Turkington in On Cinema At the Cinema
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM