Greg Kindall
@gregkindall.bsky.social
non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere
I read Poems from Greek Antiquity (Everyman's Library, 2020). Edited by the antiquarian Paul Quarrie, whose commentary on historical transmission, editions, reception, translations, etc, amount to nearly a third of this volume. In the Pocket Poets series but not of it.
January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
I read Poems from Greek Antiquity (Everyman's Library, 2020). Edited by the antiquarian Paul Quarrie, whose commentary on historical transmission, editions, reception, translations, etc, amount to nearly a third of this volume. In the Pocket Poets series but not of it.
I read The Upright Piano Player, by David Abbott (2010). A corporate exec finds his (forced) retirement more eventful than expected, not all in good ways. It's 'The Late Harvest of Henry Cage' in the German edition and that gives a good sense of the book.
January 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I read The Upright Piano Player, by David Abbott (2010). A corporate exec finds his (forced) retirement more eventful than expected, not all in good ways. It's 'The Late Harvest of Henry Cage' in the German edition and that gives a good sense of the book.
I read The North Sea, by Heinrich Heine (1826/27). Translated by Vernon Watkins for New Directions, 1951.
Und längst ist erloschen / Das unauslöschliche Göttergelächter.
And long is extinguished / The inextinguishable laughter of gods.
Und längst ist erloschen / Das unauslöschliche Göttergelächter.
And long is extinguished / The inextinguishable laughter of gods.
January 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
I read The North Sea, by Heinrich Heine (1826/27). Translated by Vernon Watkins for New Directions, 1951.
Und längst ist erloschen / Das unauslöschliche Göttergelächter.
And long is extinguished / The inextinguishable laughter of gods.
Und längst ist erloschen / Das unauslöschliche Göttergelächter.
And long is extinguished / The inextinguishable laughter of gods.
cover art:
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Boys in a Pasture (1874).
Oil on canvas, 15.8" x 22.8".
Museum of Fine Arts Boston #53.2552
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Boys in a Pasture (1874).
Oil on canvas, 15.8" x 22.8".
Museum of Fine Arts Boston #53.2552
January 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
cover art:
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Boys in a Pasture (1874).
Oil on canvas, 15.8" x 22.8".
Museum of Fine Arts Boston #53.2552
Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Boys in a Pasture (1874).
Oil on canvas, 15.8" x 22.8".
Museum of Fine Arts Boston #53.2552
I read Bevis: The Story of a Boy, by Richard Jefferies (1882). Real natural history meets boyish imagination in the adventures of Bevis and his friend Mark.
h/t to Thomas (@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social) for the introduction!
h/t to Thomas (@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social) for the introduction!
January 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I read Bevis: The Story of a Boy, by Richard Jefferies (1882). Real natural history meets boyish imagination in the adventures of Bevis and his friend Mark.
h/t to Thomas (@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social) for the introduction!
h/t to Thomas (@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social) for the introduction!
cover art:
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), 'Approaching Storm, Beach Near Newport" (c.1861-62). Oil on canvas, 28" x 58". Museum of Fine Arts Boston #45.889.
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), 'Approaching Storm, Beach Near Newport" (c.1861-62). Oil on canvas, 28" x 58". Museum of Fine Arts Boston #45.889.
January 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
cover art:
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), 'Approaching Storm, Beach Near Newport" (c.1861-62). Oil on canvas, 28" x 58". Museum of Fine Arts Boston #45.889.
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), 'Approaching Storm, Beach Near Newport" (c.1861-62). Oil on canvas, 28" x 58". Museum of Fine Arts Boston #45.889.
I read Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, by Annie Dillard (1974).
I'd read more like this.
I'd read more like this.
January 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I read Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, by Annie Dillard (1974).
I'd read more like this.
I'd read more like this.
I read Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems (Library of America, 2008).
Her terrific 'Correspondences: A Family History in Letters' (1974) takes up about half of this volume.
It's her birthday today (b. 3 January 1933).
Her terrific 'Correspondences: A Family History in Letters' (1974) takes up about half of this volume.
It's her birthday today (b. 3 January 1933).
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I read Anne Stevenson: Selected Poems (Library of America, 2008).
Her terrific 'Correspondences: A Family History in Letters' (1974) takes up about half of this volume.
It's her birthday today (b. 3 January 1933).
Her terrific 'Correspondences: A Family History in Letters' (1974) takes up about half of this volume.
It's her birthday today (b. 3 January 1933).
Happy New Year!
In spite of all the football I've managed to do a little reading, including Whose Body?, by Dorothy Sayers (1923), in which Lord Peter Wimsey makes his début.
In spite of all the football I've managed to do a little reading, including Whose Body?, by Dorothy Sayers (1923), in which Lord Peter Wimsey makes his début.
January 1, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Happy New Year!
In spite of all the football I've managed to do a little reading, including Whose Body?, by Dorothy Sayers (1923), in which Lord Peter Wimsey makes his début.
In spite of all the football I've managed to do a little reading, including Whose Body?, by Dorothy Sayers (1923), in which Lord Peter Wimsey makes his début.
I read Dubliners, by James Joyce (1914). This is a 2014 de Selby Press centenary edition with droll illustrations by Stephen Crowe (@invisibledot). As far as I know, this "Irish publishing house based in Paris" (comprising two colleagues from Shakespeare & Co.) only ever published this one title.
December 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I read Dubliners, by James Joyce (1914). This is a 2014 de Selby Press centenary edition with droll illustrations by Stephen Crowe (@invisibledot). As far as I know, this "Irish publishing house based in Paris" (comprising two colleagues from Shakespeare & Co.) only ever published this one title.
I read What is a Classic?, by T.S. Eliot (Faber, 1945), the inaugural lecture of the Virgil Society (of which Eliot was a founder and first president).
Spoiler alert:
There is one and only one classic in European literature, the Æneid, and that is not a bad thing.
Spoiler alert:
There is one and only one classic in European literature, the Æneid, and that is not a bad thing.
December 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I read What is a Classic?, by T.S. Eliot (Faber, 1945), the inaugural lecture of the Virgil Society (of which Eliot was a founder and first president).
Spoiler alert:
There is one and only one classic in European literature, the Æneid, and that is not a bad thing.
Spoiler alert:
There is one and only one classic in European literature, the Æneid, and that is not a bad thing.
I read The Pastures of Heaven, by John Steinbeck (1932). A skein of stories about the inhabitants of Las Pasturas del Cielo [real-life Corral de Tierra, situated in the hills between Monterey and Salinas].
Among my Steinbeck favorites.
Among my Steinbeck favorites.
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I read The Pastures of Heaven, by John Steinbeck (1932). A skein of stories about the inhabitants of Las Pasturas del Cielo [real-life Corral de Tierra, situated in the hills between Monterey and Salinas].
Among my Steinbeck favorites.
Among my Steinbeck favorites.
I read Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell (1933). I'm grateful that Orwell had these experiences (and made a fine book of them) and that I haven't.
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I read Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell (1933). I'm grateful that Orwell had these experiences (and made a fine book of them) and that I haven't.
I read Christianity & the Writer's Task, by Georges Bernanos (Wiseblood Books, 2022). I'm neither Catholic nor writer but thought the author of Mouchette & Diary of a Country Priest might have something interesting to say.
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I read Christianity & the Writer's Task, by Georges Bernanos (Wiseblood Books, 2022). I'm neither Catholic nor writer but thought the author of Mouchette & Diary of a Country Priest might have something interesting to say.
I read Distant Light [La Lucina], by Antonio Moresco (2013; 2016 translation by Richard Dixon for Archipelago Books).
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I read Distant Light [La Lucina], by Antonio Moresco (2013; 2016 translation by Richard Dixon for Archipelago Books).
I read The Old Glory, by Robert Lowell (1965), a trio of plays (Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; & Benito Cereno), based on stories by Hawthorne and Melville.
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I read The Old Glory, by Robert Lowell (1965), a trio of plays (Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; & Benito Cereno), based on stories by Hawthorne and Melville.
I read The Invention of Love (1997), by Tom Stoppard, who has lately left us.
"...what emotional storms, and oh what a tiny teacup."
"...what emotional storms, and oh what a tiny teacup."
December 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I read The Invention of Love (1997), by Tom Stoppard, who has lately left us.
"...what emotional storms, and oh what a tiny teacup."
"...what emotional storms, and oh what a tiny teacup."
I read Vaim, by Jon Fosse (2025, translated by Damion Searls).
Lonely men and their boats.
And one headstrong gal.
Lonely men and their boats.
And one headstrong gal.
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I read Vaim, by Jon Fosse (2025, translated by Damion Searls).
Lonely men and their boats.
And one headstrong gal.
Lonely men and their boats.
And one headstrong gal.
I read Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis (1943), the second in his Space Trilogy.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I read Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis (1943), the second in his Space Trilogy.
I read Mimes, by Marcel Schwob (1893). Short vignettes, inspired by the recent discovery of the Mimes of Herodas (3rd century BC), but transformed into something between symbolist and surreal, with a whiff of opium about them.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I read Mimes, by Marcel Schwob (1893). Short vignettes, inspired by the recent discovery of the Mimes of Herodas (3rd century BC), but transformed into something between symbolist and surreal, with a whiff of opium about them.
Gerhard Richter, 1025 Farben (1974). In situ at the Louisiana in Humlebæk, Denmark.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gerhard Richter, 1025 Farben (1974). In situ at the Louisiana in Humlebæk, Denmark.
I read Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2015). Just for fun, a breezy introduction to the major meters, with a dozen or two examples of each showing its character and range of effects and uses.
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I read Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, 2015). Just for fun, a breezy introduction to the major meters, with a dozen or two examples of each showing its character and range of effects and uses.
#MelvilleMonday
scanning dad's slides - I found this one of our 1966 31' Trojan Sea Skiff (Juneau, 1973). From which we saw lots of humpbacks and orcas.
scanning dad's slides - I found this one of our 1966 31' Trojan Sea Skiff (Juneau, 1973). From which we saw lots of humpbacks and orcas.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#MelvilleMonday
scanning dad's slides - I found this one of our 1966 31' Trojan Sea Skiff (Juneau, 1973). From which we saw lots of humpbacks and orcas.
scanning dad's slides - I found this one of our 1966 31' Trojan Sea Skiff (Juneau, 1973). From which we saw lots of humpbacks and orcas.
I read A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines (1968).
I do love this book.
I do love this book.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I read A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines (1968).
I do love this book.
I do love this book.
snack for a fall day
(I just got a hefty load of pecans from Limestone Creek Pecans down there in Georgia)
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(I just got a hefty load of pecans from Limestone Creek Pecans down there in Georgia)
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November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
snack for a fall day
(I just got a hefty load of pecans from Limestone Creek Pecans down there in Georgia)
@theorchardkeeper.bsky.social
(I just got a hefty load of pecans from Limestone Creek Pecans down there in Georgia)
@theorchardkeeper.bsky.social