Piaze
@piaze.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, reader, listener. www.justlivehere.com
#RachelCuskTogether Got ambushed by Mohs surgery so I’m pages behind, but hope to catch up today. Onward!
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#RachelCuskTogether Got ambushed by Mohs surgery so I’m pages behind, but hope to catch up today. Onward!
#RachelCuskTogether Cusk writes in an intrusive/guileless? young woman asking Konstantin about wanting children. A private bit he admits to a stranger that's overheard by Elena. RC at work - coursing danger through book, setting off small explosions, and why, I think, I stay uneasy, on my toes.
November 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#RachelCuskTogether Cusk writes in an intrusive/guileless? young woman asking Konstantin about wanting children. A private bit he admits to a stranger that's overheard by Elena. RC at work - coursing danger through book, setting off small explosions, and why, I think, I stay uneasy, on my toes.
#RachelCuskTogether - “It was simply a desire to escape from what I had. The thread led nowhere, except into ever expanding wastes of anonymity. I could swim out into the sea as far as I liked, if what I wanted was to drown” She wants to be seen so puts herself in danger? Wastes of anonymity!
October 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#RachelCuskTogether - “It was simply a desire to escape from what I had. The thread led nowhere, except into ever expanding wastes of anonymity. I could swim out into the sea as far as I liked, if what I wanted was to drown” She wants to be seen so puts herself in danger? Wastes of anonymity!
#APSTogether - This October - another guided read by the brilliant and sensitive Yiyun Li - Charles Dickens' Bleak House apstogether.substack.com/p/bleak-hous...
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: A Preview and Reading Schedule
Join us starting October 14 to read Bleak House by Charles Dickens with Yiyun Li
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October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#APSTogether - This October - another guided read by the brilliant and sensitive Yiyun Li - Charles Dickens' Bleak House apstogether.substack.com/p/bleak-hous...
#RachelCuskTogether - Have any of you read this year's Nobel prize winner? I have not. Yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
#RachelCuskTogether - Have any of you read this year's Nobel prize winner? I have not. Yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
#RachelCuskTogether A small bomb goes off right here. Why does she engage, take on a stranger?
“I remained dissatisfied by the story of his second marriage. It had lacked objectivity; it relied too heavily on extremes, and the moral properties it ascribed to those extremes were often incorrect”
“I remained dissatisfied by the story of his second marriage. It had lacked objectivity; it relied too heavily on extremes, and the moral properties it ascribed to those extremes were often incorrect”
October 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#RachelCuskTogether A small bomb goes off right here. Why does she engage, take on a stranger?
“I remained dissatisfied by the story of his second marriage. It had lacked objectivity; it relied too heavily on extremes, and the moral properties it ascribed to those extremes were often incorrect”
“I remained dissatisfied by the story of his second marriage. It had lacked objectivity; it relied too heavily on extremes, and the moral properties it ascribed to those extremes were often incorrect”
#RachelCuskTogether - Her Paris Review interview. www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...
Rachel Cusk, The Art of Fiction No. 246
“I think the novel has to stay attached to life somehow. It has to share the terrain of life.”
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October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#RachelCuskTogether - Her Paris Review interview. www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...
#Rachelcusktogether This book is relentlessly descriptive, and tense. “Normally one is safe until much later. It can be very unpleasant if you
aren’t used to it.”
aren’t used to it.”
October 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#Rachelcusktogether This book is relentlessly descriptive, and tense. “Normally one is safe until much later. It can be very unpleasant if you
aren’t used to it.”
aren’t used to it.”
#rachelcusktogether Thinking about how people don’t talk to each on planes anymore.
October 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#rachelcusktogether Thinking about how people don’t talk to each on planes anymore.
#anthonypowelltogether My SIL - Malcolm's sister - died in her sleep on Saturday morning and I left quickly for New Orleans, but I'm looking forward to reading your comments about the ending of this epic read. We did it. Thank you all for your smart and great company on another slow read.
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
#anthonypowelltogether My SIL - Malcolm's sister - died in her sleep on Saturday morning and I left quickly for New Orleans, but I'm looking forward to reading your comments about the ending of this epic read. We did it. Thank you all for your smart and great company on another slow read.
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This brief and moving piece, by Patrick Bringley, about a painting by Bruegel the Elder made my day. (Bringley wrote a whole book that I may just have to read.)
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
The World, and That’s All - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“During my ten years of working as a guard at The Met, no picture rewarded my attention as consistently.”
www.metmuseum.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This brief and moving piece, by Patrick Bringley, about a painting by Bruegel the Elder made my day. (Bringley wrote a whole book that I may just have to read.)
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
It would only be fair if Madame Bovary’s daughter Berthe became a writer. Poor kid. #Flauberttogether
August 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It would only be fair if Madame Bovary’s daughter Berthe became a writer. Poor kid. #Flauberttogether
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Remembering Count Basie on his birthday 🎂
📷 Paul Natkin, Chicago, 1978
"Basie as pianist remains the elliptical master: He plays a sentence, but conveys a paragraph."
- Leonard Feather
From 1965, "All of Me"
youtube.com/watch?v=JB2X...
📷 Paul Natkin, Chicago, 1978
"Basie as pianist remains the elliptical master: He plays a sentence, but conveys a paragraph."
- Leonard Feather
From 1965, "All of Me"
youtube.com/watch?v=JB2X...
August 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Remembering Count Basie on his birthday 🎂
📷 Paul Natkin, Chicago, 1978
"Basie as pianist remains the elliptical master: He plays a sentence, but conveys a paragraph."
- Leonard Feather
From 1965, "All of Me"
youtube.com/watch?v=JB2X...
📷 Paul Natkin, Chicago, 1978
"Basie as pianist remains the elliptical master: He plays a sentence, but conveys a paragraph."
- Leonard Feather
From 1965, "All of Me"
youtube.com/watch?v=JB2X...
I've set out to do this before. Gonna try again, with the Italian version close by. It begins August 25th. 100daysofdante.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
The World's Largest Online Reading Group
Travel with Dante, Virgil and Beatrice through the Inferno up to Paradise with the world's largest reading group of Dante's Divine Comedy.
100daysofdante.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I've set out to do this before. Gonna try again, with the Italian version close by. It begins August 25th. 100daysofdante.com?fbclid=PAZXh...
#Flauberttogether I can feel Flaubert’s pleasure in the writing of Chap 8 as he crosscuts unspoken lust and a diatribe on the virtues of manure.
August 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#Flauberttogether I can feel Flaubert’s pleasure in the writing of Chap 8 as he crosscuts unspoken lust and a diatribe on the virtues of manure.
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i highly rec the Flaubert-Turgenev correspondence. A lot of fun/insight.
#flauberttogether
#flauberttogether
July 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
i highly rec the Flaubert-Turgenev correspondence. A lot of fun/insight.
#flauberttogether
#flauberttogether
They want bookclub stories? We've got them for days! #anthonypowelltogether thebookerprizes.substack.com/p/wed-like-t...
We’d like to know your best book-club stories
Share your best book-club stories with us for an upcoming article on the Booker Prizes website
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June 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
They want bookclub stories? We've got them for days! #anthonypowelltogether thebookerprizes.substack.com/p/wed-like-t...
#anthonypowelltogether - A side book over at APS - The Lover - Marguerite Duras - with Honor Moore. Begins June 11. A welcome second read for me. substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Lover by Marguerite Duras: A Preview and Reading Schedule
Join us starting June 11 to read The Lover by Marguerite Duras with Honor Moore
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June 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
#anthonypowelltogether - A side book over at APS - The Lover - Marguerite Duras - with Honor Moore. Begins June 11. A welcome second read for me. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Speed & precision! "His wife, a Canadian, had died about ten years before, and, while Borrit marketed fruit in Europe, their children preferred to live with grandparents in Canada. His own relations with the opposite sex took an exclusively commercial form." #anthonypowelltogether
April 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Speed & precision! "His wife, a Canadian, had died about ten years before, and, while Borrit marketed fruit in Europe, their children preferred to live with grandparents in Canada. His own relations with the opposite sex took an exclusively commercial form." #anthonypowelltogether
This book opens with Nick being fitted into a handsomely tailored coat which sends me back to the opening image I keep of Widmerpool in the wrong coat at school, being shamed. #anthonypowelltogether
February 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This book opens with Nick being fitted into a handsomely tailored coat which sends me back to the opening image I keep of Widmerpool in the wrong coat at school, being shamed. #anthonypowelltogether
#anthonypowelltogether Nick’s scene with Isobel is a smart conversation with no touching, no intimacy. Even after not seeing each other for months. I know she’s pregnant, but c’mon. Didn’t seeing her melt him a little?
February 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
#anthonypowelltogether Nick’s scene with Isobel is a smart conversation with no touching, no intimacy. Even after not seeing each other for months. I know she’s pregnant, but c’mon. Didn’t seeing her melt him a little?
#anthonypowelltogether A brief interruption to let you know that A Public Space is reading Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey at Substack. My first ABOUT time reading. Begins Feb. 5th.
January 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
#anthonypowelltogether A brief interruption to let you know that A Public Space is reading Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey at Substack. My first ABOUT time reading. Begins Feb. 5th.
#anthonypowelltogether Jean DuPont is almost as ubiquitous as Widmerpool. Did AP write her in to torment Nick?
January 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
#anthonypowelltogether Jean DuPont is almost as ubiquitous as Widmerpool. Did AP write her in to torment Nick?
I'm so sad for New Orleans, my city. Walking in circles as information trickles in.
January 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm so sad for New Orleans, my city. Walking in circles as information trickles in.