Levi Stahl
@levistahl.bsky.social
Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
You run outside all winter because your body needs it, and it’s good to get outside in all but the worst weather.
Even so, it frequently sucks. It’s cold and windy and slippery. They’re not good miles; they’re just miles.
Some days, though, there are compensations.
Even so, it frequently sucks. It’s cold and windy and slippery. They’re not good miles; they’re just miles.
Some days, though, there are compensations.
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
You run outside all winter because your body needs it, and it’s good to get outside in all but the worst weather.
Even so, it frequently sucks. It’s cold and windy and slippery. They’re not good miles; they’re just miles.
Some days, though, there are compensations.
Even so, it frequently sucks. It’s cold and windy and slippery. They’re not good miles; they’re just miles.
Some days, though, there are compensations.
Reposted by Levi Stahl
as always this is my favorite piece about world war ii and how we remember it www.leesandlin.com/articles/Los...
Losing the War - by Lee Sandlin
World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?
www.leesandlin.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
as always this is my favorite piece about world war ii and how we remember it www.leesandlin.com/articles/Los...
Today's Glacial Errata newsletter from @colindickey.com is superb, telling a story of science and pseudoscience through one location for lighthouses.
Glacial Errata, No. 44
Four Lighthouses and One Kerfuffle for the Week of November 10, 2025.
glacialerrata.beehiiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today's Glacial Errata newsletter from @colindickey.com is superb, telling a story of science and pseudoscience through one location for lighthouses.
Feeding birds is such a source of joy. Especially on a day like today.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Feeding birds is such a source of joy. Especially on a day like today.
An Englishman is partial to doom-talk.
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
An Englishman is partial to doom-talk.
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
Nice to see that the Barchester Cathedral Almshouses survived deep into the twentieth century.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Nice to see that the Barchester Cathedral Almshouses survived deep into the twentieth century.
We have reached the season where one of my personal views begins to have salience: That if you are sitting with a blanket and get up for any reason or amount of time, you should fold the blanket rather than leave chaos behind you, and that anyone who does otherwise is a monster.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We have reached the season where one of my personal views begins to have salience: That if you are sitting with a blanket and get up for any reason or amount of time, you should fold the blanket rather than leave chaos behind you, and that anyone who does otherwise is a monster.
He didn’t finish the story because he could see he’d made his point and, like too few propagandists, recognised where an irrelevance begins.
—J. L. Care, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
—J. L. Care, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
He didn’t finish the story because he could see he’d made his point and, like too few propagandists, recognised where an irrelevance begins.
—J. L. Care, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
—J. L. Care, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
Juncos on the snow in our garden hopping around looking like they belong in a way they didn’t yesterday.
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Juncos on the snow in our garden hopping around looking like they belong in a way they didn’t yesterday.
In a village, you avoid having elections to save hurting feelings and rely on death or flittings for welcome changes.
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In a village, you avoid having elections to save hurting feelings and rely on death or flittings for welcome changes.
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup
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"Hollywood is no longer a place of ermine toilet-seat covers and flagrant sin"
[Lange Lewis, 1945]
[Lange Lewis, 1945]
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
"Hollywood is no longer a place of ermine toilet-seat covers and flagrant sin"
[Lange Lewis, 1945]
[Lange Lewis, 1945]
Everybody likes his name mentioned as additional confirmation that he is alive.
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup.
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Everybody likes his name mentioned as additional confirmation that he is alive.
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup.
—J. L. Carr, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup.
Good morning, friends!
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Good morning, friends!
From the front matter of the Quince Tree Press edition of J. L. Carr’s How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
From the front matter of the Quince Tree Press edition of J. L. Carr’s How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F. A. Cup.
[My father] loves Peter Falk the way everybody over a certain age does.
—Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective
—Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
[My father] loves Peter Falk the way everybody over a certain age does.
—Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective
—Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective
Man, I can so close to finally getting a good recording of Chopin’s first nocturne without any large mistakes, then it fall apart at the end. So here’s the first section for now.
November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Man, I can so close to finally getting a good recording of Chopin’s first nocturne without any large mistakes, then it fall apart at the end. So here’s the first section for now.
On or about January 1981 human character changed, when some unknown person for the last time without irony called someone else their lover.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
On or about January 1981 human character changed, when some unknown person for the last time without irony called someone else their lover.
The input for our DVD player on our TV is labeled “Columbo.”
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The input for our DVD player on our TV is labeled “Columbo.”
Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective, on Columbo.
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective, on Columbo.
The winter stretches ahead, where all vision is lost and all memory dies out.
—D. H. Lawrence, letter, November 9, 1915
—D. H. Lawrence, letter, November 9, 1915
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The winter stretches ahead, where all vision is lost and all memory dies out.
—D. H. Lawrence, letter, November 9, 1915
—D. H. Lawrence, letter, November 9, 1915
Good morning, friends!
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Good morning, friends!
Stacey is away, which means I will spend the whole day at the piano, less time for dog walks & maybe a movie.
And it means I can really work on parts that have been bedeviling me, like this bit from Chopin’s first nocturne.
Over & over & over. I’ll know I have it when my arm is no longer tense.
And it means I can really work on parts that have been bedeviling me, like this bit from Chopin’s first nocturne.
Over & over & over. I’ll know I have it when my arm is no longer tense.
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Stacey is away, which means I will spend the whole day at the piano, less time for dog walks & maybe a movie.
And it means I can really work on parts that have been bedeviling me, like this bit from Chopin’s first nocturne.
Over & over & over. I’ll know I have it when my arm is no longer tense.
And it means I can really work on parts that have been bedeviling me, like this bit from Chopin’s first nocturne.
Over & over & over. I’ll know I have it when my arm is no longer tense.
Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective.
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective.