Jeremy Koenig
@jeremykoenig.bsky.social
High-School English Teacher outside Washington, DC. Hexagonal libraries, translated literature, Bach, UConn basketball, distance running, & crosswords.
Personally, I think it looks great!
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Personally, I think it looks great!
Reposted by Jeremy Koenig
The OUSE (4) at sunset.
July 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The OUSE (4) at sunset.
Dropped into Hatchards in Piccadilly yesterday.
July 13, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Dropped into Hatchards in Piccadilly yesterday.
Stopped by Sir John Soane’s to see some Hogarths today.
July 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Stopped by Sir John Soane’s to see some Hogarths today.
Closing out this Memorial Day in the middle of the Pacific with Henry Preston Standish.
May 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Closing out this Memorial Day in the middle of the Pacific with Henry Preston Standish.
Delayed! At the train station. Stamford bound, eventually. ACPT2025
April 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Delayed! At the train station. Stamford bound, eventually. ACPT2025
Soon to embark on some frenzied reading of the IBP longlist along with these lovely people. 📚⏱️☕️
Our shadow panel created our first post about our IBP adventure. Want to meet the readers? @stujallen.bsky.social @fulcherkim.bsky.social @jeremykoenig.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social @davidheb.bsky.social
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Introducing the 2025 International Booker Prize Shadow Panel!
The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist of 12 or 13 books will be announced on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT), and the shortlist of six books on Tuesday, 8 April.
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February 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Soon to embark on some frenzied reading of the IBP longlist along with these lovely people. 📚⏱️☕️
Helluva last line to this stop on the Rougon/Macquart Express!
February 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Helluva last line to this stop on the Rougon/Macquart Express!
When I lived in Moscow in the early aughts, I read on the metro to/from work. I followed the Russian habit of covering my reading material. I made book covers from New Yorkers. Here’s the one for MIDDLEMARCH.
January 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
When I lived in Moscow in the early aughts, I read on the metro to/from work. I followed the Russian habit of covering my reading material. I made book covers from New Yorkers. Here’s the one for MIDDLEMARCH.
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Today's book mail!
The Dance and the Fire by @dsparis.bsky.social out in July 2025 from @catapultbooks.bsky.social.
www.islandbooks.com/book/9781646...
The Dance and the Fire by @dsparis.bsky.social out in July 2025 from @catapultbooks.bsky.social.
www.islandbooks.com/book/9781646...
December 12, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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Reposted by Jeremy Koenig
Attention: Lesser Ruins/Mark Haber fans!
I made a Spotify playlist of Marcel's Mix.
Mark provides this playlist at the end of the novel. (Which I'm loving and have one more part to go)
open.spotify.com/playlist/6xr...
I made a Spotify playlist of Marcel's Mix.
Mark provides this playlist at the end of the novel. (Which I'm loving and have one more part to go)
open.spotify.com/playlist/6xr...
Marcel's Mix
Playlist · Tim Sailer · 17 items
open.spotify.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Attention: Lesser Ruins/Mark Haber fans!
I made a Spotify playlist of Marcel's Mix.
Mark provides this playlist at the end of the novel. (Which I'm loving and have one more part to go)
open.spotify.com/playlist/6xr...
I made a Spotify playlist of Marcel's Mix.
Mark provides this playlist at the end of the novel. (Which I'm loving and have one more part to go)
open.spotify.com/playlist/6xr...
"and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows / that i know that touching was and still is and will always / be the true / revolution"
from "When I Die" by Nikki Giovanni
from "When I Die" by Nikki Giovanni
December 10, 2024 at 5:04 PM
"and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows / that i know that touching was and still is and will always / be the true / revolution"
from "When I Die" by Nikki Giovanni
from "When I Die" by Nikki Giovanni
10 down & 10 to go with Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novel cycle. Hopefully, I’ll have one in reading circulation throughout 2025 & finish around this time next year.
December 2, 2024 at 1:59 AM
10 down & 10 to go with Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novel cycle. Hopefully, I’ll have one in reading circulation throughout 2025 & finish around this time next year.
With a nod to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I’ll be referring to this novel from now on as DREAM OF ZOLAFORNICATION.
October 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM
With a nod to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I’ll be referring to this novel from now on as DREAM OF ZOLAFORNICATION.
TCM simply brutal in their bios lol
December 8, 2023 at 12:53 AM
TCM simply brutal in their bios lol
“(Even later, twenty years and then forty years later, he still had something left of those rehearsals of “To be” and “Not to be” — he arbitrarily attributed one to his leg, the other to the wooden leg: repeating the monologue trained him to walk)” (150).
#Senges23
Ahab (Sequels)
#Senges23
Ahab (Sequels)
September 17, 2023 at 1:45 PM
“(Even later, twenty years and then forty years later, he still had something left of those rehearsals of “To be” and “Not to be” — he arbitrarily attributed one to his leg, the other to the wooden leg: repeating the monologue trained him to walk)” (150).
#Senges23
Ahab (Sequels)
#Senges23
Ahab (Sequels)
“To contain is not an oceanic virtue, not an achievement, it should not be seen as a promise of salvation, as Roland looked to the moon for all that humans had lost on Earth: it contains passively, enduringly, without even chewing what it swallows”(292).
Ahab (Sequels)
#Senges23
Ahab (Sequels)
#Senges23
September 17, 2023 at 12:03 AM
“To contain is not an oceanic virtue, not an achievement, it should not be seen as a promise of salvation, as Roland looked to the moon for all that humans had lost on Earth: it contains passively, enduringly, without even chewing what it swallows”(292).
Ahab (Sequels)
#Senges23
Ahab (Sequels)
#Senges23
Campus Symmetry at UNC-Chapel Hill
July 5, 2023 at 6:30 PM
Campus Symmetry at UNC-Chapel Hill
Some quiet hours before the lights & the noise w/ Yukio Mishima’s CONFESSIONS OF A MASK (tr. Meredith Weatherby).
July 4, 2023 at 8:37 PM
Some quiet hours before the lights & the noise w/ Yukio Mishima’s CONFESSIONS OF A MASK (tr. Meredith Weatherby).
reconnecting with my twitter mutuals
July 3, 2023 at 10:27 PM
reconnecting with my twitter mutuals