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David Hayden
@seventydys.bsky.social
the sea is completely written for me

https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Resting on my notebook.
February 18, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Reposted by David Hayden
Look what’s arrived, @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
February 18, 2026 at 8:23 PM
an empty house

Eva Figes, from ‘Equinox’
February 18, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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February 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
The late Frederick Wiseman was one of the great filmmakers. An indispensable, curious and humane documenter of American institutions, communities and lives.
February 17, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Peter Weiss, ‘Das große Welttheater’, 1937
February 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
‘Niels Lyhne’ by Jens Peter Jacobsen, an essential Danish novel of art and failure, love and doom. Much admired by Rilke, Joyce, Ibsen, Freud, Giacometti and T. Mann. This translation by Tiina Nunnally, the first in English by the great Australian novelist Ethel Florence (Henry Handel Richardson).
February 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
February 14, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by David Hayden
‘Four Night Seas’ is an exceptional first book of short stories. Niamh Mac Cabe takes the reader deep into the textures and instabilities of memory, desire and loss, with well-judged humour and vivid depictions of landscape and character. Published @lilliputpress.bsky.social March.
February 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
sweet in that air

Edwin Morgan, ‘Strawberries’
February 14, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 1:01 AM
any of their past

David Wojnarowicz, from ‘Canada-bound Trucker on Interstate 90’ in ‘The Waterfront Journals’
February 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
the world’s having difficulty breathing

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, ‘Ark of the Covenant’ / Toircheas 1, tr Medbh McGuckian
February 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
My short story 'Arrival' with images and sound by Ian Maleney @fallowmedia.bsky.social.
fallowmedia.com/2020/feb/arr...
February 11, 2026 at 11:56 AM
‘Four Night Seas’ is an exceptional first book of short stories. Niamh Mac Cabe takes the reader deep into the textures and instabilities of memory, desire and loss, with well-judged humour and vivid depictions of landscape and character. Published @lilliputpress.bsky.social March.
February 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
chewed by bookworms

Jean Ray, from ‘The Black Mirror’, tr Lowell Bair
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
‘Swirl & Vortex’, the collected poems of Larry Levis, just published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social is an immense gift to readers. A lyric, attentive, voyaging, truth-speaking poet who, as his editor David St. John wrote, held “a kind of passport of otherness”.
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 PM
become less attached

Francis Ponge, ‘The Trees Decompose in a Sphere of Fog’, tr C.K. Williams.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 AM
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM