Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach
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In the Suavity of the Rock (novel)with
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Issue 11 is live. Thank you to all who helped and the great writers and the translator featured. socratesonthebeach.com
Extremely happy to share this short story, with special thanks to Garielle Lutz for her commentary and for putting it up on Hobart. Written just as I tackled a Poussin essay, it bears those traces... www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/x
Portrait by Greg Gerke
I am watching the lonely goatherd—that is, the two garbage canisters at the end of the lawn. To the left in my window-sized view are two mini-cypresses (I don’t know their true names), then a small st...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Extremely happy to share this short story, with special thanks to Garielle Lutz for her commentary and for putting it up on Hobart. Written just as I tackled a Poussin essay, it bears those traces... www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/x
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Excited to share new work.
The twelfth issue of Socrates on the Beach is live. Thank you to the authors and the translator and those who helped with the issue. socratesonthebeach.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Excited to share new work.
The twelfth issue of Socrates on the Beach is live. Thank you to the authors and the translator and those who helped with the issue. socratesonthebeach.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The twelfth issue of Socrates on the Beach is live. Thank you to the authors and the translator and those who helped with the issue. socratesonthebeach.com
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In the candlelight of a Bachelardian dream, I offer these fragments to you as one might offer a confession: a letter to the Other—lover, double, sea, or time itself.
For the newest issue of Socrates on the Beach and forthcoming with Erratum Press.
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...
For the newest issue of Socrates on the Beach and forthcoming with Erratum Press.
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In the candlelight of a Bachelardian dream, I offer these fragments to you as one might offer a confession: a letter to the Other—lover, double, sea, or time itself.
For the newest issue of Socrates on the Beach and forthcoming with Erratum Press.
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...
For the newest issue of Socrates on the Beach and forthcoming with Erratum Press.
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...
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My gratitude to @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social and @ansgarallen.bsky.social @erratumpress.bsky.social for their enduring belief in my writing.
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My gratitude to @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social and @ansgarallen.bsky.social @erratumpress.bsky.social for their enduring belief in my writing.
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Feeling honoured, after working and reworking this stuff for years, trying to lean fully into the way my brain works and create a style that works with that, to have
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accept this piece for his wonderful Socrates on the Beach.
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@greggerkesocrates.bsky.social
accept this piece for his wonderful Socrates on the Beach.
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Socrates on the Beach Literary Journal
A literary journal highlighting longer works of prose.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Feeling honoured, after working and reworking this stuff for years, trying to lean fully into the way my brain works and create a style that works with that, to have
@greggerkesocrates.bsky.social
accept this piece for his wonderful Socrates on the Beach.
socratesonthebeach.com
@greggerkesocrates.bsky.social
accept this piece for his wonderful Socrates on the Beach.
socratesonthebeach.com
The first full review of In the Suavity of the Rock is out (a couple on goodreads). Thanks to Paul and Metropolitan Review. It's an honor to be read and criticized and celebrated this closely. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/undelivere...
Undelivered Glory
On Greg Gerke’s ‘In the Suavity of the Rock’
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October 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The first full review of In the Suavity of the Rock is out (a couple on goodreads). Thanks to Paul and Metropolitan Review. It's an honor to be read and criticized and celebrated this closely. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/undelivere...
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Always awed by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social's prose, and looking forward to this book by @medhawrites.bsky.social. Thoroughly enjoyed her previous work, Ecdysis.
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Christina Tudor-Sideri on Medha Singh — Socrates on the Beach
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September 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Always awed by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social's prose, and looking forward to this book by @medhawrites.bsky.social. Thoroughly enjoyed her previous work, Ecdysis.
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...
Long essay on Poussin from the Art and Time book. Other pieces coming in Cluny Journal and Liberties. greg-gerke.medium.com/poussin-in-m...
Poussin in Mind’s Eye (Ego)
Moses Rescued from the Waters, 1638
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September 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Long essay on Poussin from the Art and Time book. Other pieces coming in Cluny Journal and Liberties. greg-gerke.medium.com/poussin-in-m...
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a review of Medha Singh's @medhawrites.bsky.social's new poetry collection, Afterbody, published by Blue Diode Press.
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a review of Medha Singh's @medhawrites.bsky.social's new poetry collection, Afterbody, published by Blue Diode Press.
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...
Christina Tudor-Sideri on Medha Singh — Socrates on the Beach
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September 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
For Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social
a review of Medha Singh's @medhawrites.bsky.social's new poetry collection, Afterbody, published by Blue Diode Press.
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...
a review of Medha Singh's @medhawrites.bsky.social's new poetry collection, Afterbody, published by Blue Diode Press.
socratesonthebeach.com/christina-tu...
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Great new review of Jen Craig's Wall up over @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's Socrates: "Her novels are at once obsessive attempts to give a full account of grief-laden lives, & a demonstration of the impossibility, the ridiculousness, even, of such a pursuit" socratesonthebeach.com/gus-oconnor-...
Gus O'Connor on Jen Craig — Socrates on the Beach
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August 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Great new review of Jen Craig's Wall up over @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's Socrates: "Her novels are at once obsessive attempts to give a full account of grief-laden lives, & a demonstration of the impossibility, the ridiculousness, even, of such a pursuit" socratesonthebeach.com/gus-oconnor-...
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I reviewed Dominic Amerena's I Want Everything for Kill Your Darlings. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/aust...
Australia’s Literary Impostor Syndrome
In the absence of a thriving avant-garde, I Want Everything conjures an alternate history.
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May 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I reviewed Dominic Amerena's I Want Everything for Kill Your Darlings. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/aust...
Very grateful to have this piece in one of the best journals: Liberties. Thank you to @celestemarcus.bsky.social
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Night and Golden Stuff - Liberties
The Met on a cloudless Tuesday afternoon was not too crowded (the Vermeer room was empty for five minutes — a record, in my experience). We came to Rembrandt first. I entered his art with a helping of...
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July 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Very grateful to have this piece in one of the best journals: Liberties. Thank you to @celestemarcus.bsky.social
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@readliberties.bsky.social libertiesjournal.com/articles/nig...
New short at Hobart--thanks to Garielle Lutz. www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
A Pile of Clothes by Greg Gerke
The microcosm is the macrocosm, or some such tiddlywinking crapola. It starts when it is already angst-filled, as it always is—so how can it truly start? When you are with someone for years nothing re...
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July 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
New short at Hobart--thanks to Garielle Lutz. www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
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Excellent piece from @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Excellent piece from @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social
The next excerpt from the Life and Time in Art book.
The Hard Rain of Henry James.
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The Hard Rain of Henry James.
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The Hard Rain of Henry James
I remember walking in Portland with a good friend of mine — a good writer friend — when suddenly he ejaculated, in proper Jamesian fashion…
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July 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The next excerpt from the Life and Time in Art book.
The Hard Rain of Henry James.
greg-gerke.medium.com/the-hard-rai...
The Hard Rain of Henry James.
greg-gerke.medium.com/the-hard-rai...
This short piece on Stevens, sensibility, faculty, and Merleau-Ponty follows the Cezanne essay (greg-gerke.medium.com/c%C3%A9zanne...) as a corollary. It will probably be in the book. greg-gerke.medium.com/creative-dis...
May 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This short piece on Stevens, sensibility, faculty, and Merleau-Ponty follows the Cezanne essay (greg-gerke.medium.com/c%C3%A9zanne...) as a corollary. It will probably be in the book. greg-gerke.medium.com/creative-dis...
Long piece on Cezanne for the Life and Time in Art book. medium.com/@greg-gerke/...
Cézanne in Philadelphia and Everywhere Else (beginning only
I imagine there is a mildly correct way to be an art critic, to get caught up in dates and purchases to some degree and then throw that…
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May 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Long piece on Cezanne for the Life and Time in Art book. medium.com/@greg-gerke/...
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Vermeer and Proust, and the foundation experience of being human
May 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Vermeer and Proust, and the foundation experience of being human
Looking forward to this one. We published an excerpt in Socrates: socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
May 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Looking forward to this one. We published an excerpt in Socrates: socratesonthebeach.com/pamela-ryder
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Here is Anastasia Kobekina playing Vladimir Kobekin's Sappho, which is based on the metrical structure of the Sapphic stanza. This piece is mentioned in my essay in @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's Socrates on the Beach. socratesonthebeach.com/eric-racher
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“Sappho” - a poem in musical form - by my father Vladimir Kobekin
YouTube video by Anastasia Kobekina
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May 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Here is Anastasia Kobekina playing Vladimir Kobekin's Sappho, which is based on the metrical structure of the Sapphic stanza. This piece is mentioned in my essay in @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social's Socrates on the Beach. socratesonthebeach.com/eric-racher
youtu.be/0C4Cagn6zGQ?...
youtu.be/0C4Cagn6zGQ?...
Interview with Books of Some Substance www.booksofsomesubstance.com/blog/13-ques...
Greg Gerke on Literature’s Ghostly Power, Modernists, and the Books That Shaped Him — Books of Some Substance
Author and editor Greg Gerke discusses his influences—from Wallace Stevens to Proust—his favorite contemporary writers, and why literature quietly reshapes our lives. Discover his latest work In the S...
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May 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Interview with Books of Some Substance www.booksofsomesubstance.com/blog/13-ques...