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Jay Innis Murray
@jayinnismurray.bsky.social
Got a dictionary and some sharpened pencils and other things like that. Book reviews and sometimes essays on my website.

www.thevisionarycompany.net
Hey. Finally remembered my log-in.
September 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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o andor adorno
May 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Happy 100th to Mrs. Dalloway.
May 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Dale Cooper looks like he smells incredible
March 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
550th bday for Michelangelo.
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March 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Holy shit. This is the real thing.
February 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Musil Contra Mann: Just a taster for my longer analysis of the complex relationship between these two men (coming soon):
open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
Musil contra Mann
A particularly nasty dig from Musil's notebooks
open.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Charles Dickens was born on this day in 1812. There’s a fascinating mini portrait of him in Zadie Smith’s novel The Fraud.
The Secret Engine of the World: A Review of The Fraud (2023) by Zadie Smith
By Jay Innis Murray … whilst coiled behind all gazes the great Worm of Slavery. — Pynchon, Mason & Dixon The curious reader need not wonder why Zadie Smith wrote a historical novel for her sixt…
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February 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Huge if true.
December 19, 2024 at 10:52 AM
I wrote a review of Let the Boys Play (2024) by Nicholas John Turner. Great book. My novel of the year for this year.
A Review of Let the Boys Play (2024) by Nicholas John Turner
By Jay Innis Murray “Firm ground is not available ground.” – – – AR Ammons, “Dunes” Here is a book that does not flinch. Here is a book about suffering. This is my novel of the ye…
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December 13, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Kafka’s sisters.
December 12, 2024 at 3:29 PM
The whale one.
Which one should I plunge into during this holiday? 🕯️
December 12, 2024 at 12:10 PM
The Gay Science, section 276.
December 11, 2024 at 11:34 PM
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –

(Happy birthday to Emily Dickinson)
December 10, 2024 at 2:27 PM
the whole bird
(Miss MacIntosh, My Darling)
December 10, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Rilke’s birthday again.
December 4, 2024 at 4:50 PM
William Blake was born on this day in 1757. Obsessed with the color of the sun.
November 28, 2024 at 3:14 PM
One bit of Australian culture I learned about from Let the Boys Play is netball. I’d never heard of it.
November 21, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Joining the club.
November 20, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Leaning over to whisper in my date’s ear:
“That’s the title.”
November 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
How did I get 400 new followers over night? What’s going on?
November 16, 2024 at 1:10 PM
The Mill on the Floss.
November 16, 2024 at 11:28 AM
11.14.1851.
November 14, 2024 at 1:34 PM