My Bookless Mountain Cave
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Virginia Woolf, Don Delillo, Henry James, Isaac Babel, Flannery O’Connor, D. H. Lawrence etc.
music.apple.com/us/album/ran... Something powerful, magical, mischievous, happens when this song is played and sung communally at a bluegrass jam, in a room full of “strangers”:
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
Rank Stranger by The Stanley Brothers on Apple Music
Song · 1962 · Duration 3:06
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November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
music.apple.com/us/album/ran... Something powerful, magical, mischievous, happens when this song is played and sung communally at a bluegrass jam, in a room full of “strangers”:
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
“I looked for my friends, but I never could find them. I found they were all rank strangers to me…”
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... one of the great podcast episodes of all time
Joy Williams: Honored Guest
Podcast Episode · Bookworm · 02/17/2005 · 30m
podcasts.apple.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... one of the great podcast episodes of all time
#Dylan Positively 4th St. is intentionally unlyrical, unpoetic, a wholly new concoction a singer could build an identity around.This alongside virtuosic displays like Its Allright Ma, and traditional reworkings—that could be hits today—like Moonshiner. The range is staggering
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#Dylan Positively 4th St. is intentionally unlyrical, unpoetic, a wholly new concoction a singer could build an identity around.This alongside virtuosic displays like Its Allright Ma, and traditional reworkings—that could be hits today—like Moonshiner. The range is staggering
One a day Rilke. Symmetry here? Rage being taken in…core of cores…
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One a day Rilke. Symmetry here? Rage being taken in…core of cores…
Two curbside finds! One a portal to Joy Williams and the other is Hamlet, with wonderful introduction and essays. Both smell amazing. #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Two curbside finds! One a portal to Joy Williams and the other is Hamlet, with wonderful introduction and essays. Both smell amazing. #booksky
Rilke one poem a day. Going great so far. I think my fav so far is this one about a tomb. Not the only corpse handling by a long shot in his work. #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rilke one poem a day. Going great so far. I think my fav so far is this one about a tomb. Not the only corpse handling by a long shot in his work. #booksky
Can’t stop listening to this. It’s a perfect pop song melody. The chord progression rules
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Can’t stop listening to this. It’s a perfect pop song melody. The chord progression rules
months ago I began yoga. Prompted by a health scare, that’s has passed, and mild arthritis that hasn’t, I signed up for classes. The initial weeks coincided with my reading Moby Dick, and one complimented the other. Omnidirectional visions of Whale, parts and whole. Inversions, transpositions etc.
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
months ago I began yoga. Prompted by a health scare, that’s has passed, and mild arthritis that hasn’t, I signed up for classes. The initial weeks coincided with my reading Moby Dick, and one complimented the other. Omnidirectional visions of Whale, parts and whole. Inversions, transpositions etc.
#literarychainreaction #booksky
From Marshall Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air, with a gorgeous chapter on Gogol and modernity, I must read Dead Souls. From Dead Souls, keep the flame alive, I must read a Gogol bio. Turns out Nobokov wrote one of the most freewheeling lit bios ever…
From Marshall Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air, with a gorgeous chapter on Gogol and modernity, I must read Dead Souls. From Dead Souls, keep the flame alive, I must read a Gogol bio. Turns out Nobokov wrote one of the most freewheeling lit bios ever…
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
#literarychainreaction #booksky
From Marshall Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air, with a gorgeous chapter on Gogol and modernity, I must read Dead Souls. From Dead Souls, keep the flame alive, I must read a Gogol bio. Turns out Nobokov wrote one of the most freewheeling lit bios ever…
From Marshall Berman All that is Solid Melts into Air, with a gorgeous chapter on Gogol and modernity, I must read Dead Souls. From Dead Souls, keep the flame alive, I must read a Gogol bio. Turns out Nobokov wrote one of the most freewheeling lit bios ever…
Currently reading. Currently rereading. Both concerning countries struggling to be born or whatever. There’s a nihilist in one. #booksky
November 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Currently reading. Currently rereading. Both concerning countries struggling to be born or whatever. There’s a nihilist in one. #booksky
Exploding off the page this one. #currentlyreading #booksky
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Exploding off the page this one. #currentlyreading #booksky
Currently reading. Lincoln book keeps getting richer. Reminds me of Gogol, silly shading into horror, comic and cosmic. Safekeep is moving like a Swiss watch. Deceptively straight ahead language masks huge depth, in the best way
October 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Currently reading. Lincoln book keeps getting richer. Reminds me of Gogol, silly shading into horror, comic and cosmic. Safekeep is moving like a Swiss watch. Deceptively straight ahead language masks huge depth, in the best way
What it’s actually like on the NYC subway
October 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
What it’s actually like on the NYC subway
October 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Michale silverblatt called under the volcano “fibrous”, and I think I get why. I know I get why. But this exemplifies it: “across the water…”
October 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Michale silverblatt called under the volcano “fibrous”, and I think I get why. I know I get why. But this exemplifies it: “across the water…”
I’m so happy Bandsplain is back. Motley Crue…just hook it to my veins!!
October 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I’m so happy Bandsplain is back. Motley Crue…just hook it to my veins!!
Dickens, Melville, cosmic beyond the physical
October 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Dickens, Melville, cosmic beyond the physical
All I listen to anymore is Trueanon and old episodes of Bookworm
September 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
All I listen to anymore is Trueanon and old episodes of Bookworm
I got raptured yesterday, but I still have my phone, which is awesome. It’s all perfect white light here, so I can’t make reels or post pics really. Text still works obviously. Anyway, this is great but boring. if that makes sense?
September 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I got raptured yesterday, but I still have my phone, which is awesome. It’s all perfect white light here, so I can’t make reels or post pics really. Text still works obviously. Anyway, this is great but boring. if that makes sense?
What a gorgeous sentence
September 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
What a gorgeous sentence
September 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
On the recommendation of Denis Johnson
September 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
On the recommendation of Denis Johnson
When the book is broken towards the end of
September 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
When the book is broken towards the end of
August 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM