Jeff Boone
@jeffreyboone.bsky.social
Juarez/El Paso; NYC by marriage; Romania when possible. Social worker/librarian/grad student manqué
Bonus: closely resembles cover of a decent book
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Bonus: closely resembles cover of a decent book
There were some real winners in this shop.
October 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
There were some real winners in this shop.
@iammilliam.bsky.social Seen in charity shop, possible Lock(lin)listed cover art? You might think he’d have put his teeth in.
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
@iammilliam.bsky.social Seen in charity shop, possible Lock(lin)listed cover art? You might think he’d have put his teeth in.
Actually they use…
October 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Actually they use…
Can be read in an hour, not a re-run of Samurai or Lightning Rods, the lede here is good.
October 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Can be read in an hour, not a re-run of Samurai or Lightning Rods, the lede here is good.
Really reminds of this rando advice: condescension fears are huge *among NYC/DC pundits (whose ambition never takes them out of their circles), it’s *not a big problem among normie Dems.
September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Really reminds of this rando advice: condescension fears are huge *among NYC/DC pundits (whose ambition never takes them out of their circles), it’s *not a big problem among normie Dems.
Auden really had his number
September 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Auden really had his number
@iammilliam.bsky.social An enterprising editor should do a collection of Martin Amis reviews, Reading I‘ve Not Liked.
August 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
@iammilliam.bsky.social An enterprising editor should do a collection of Martin Amis reviews, Reading I‘ve Not Liked.
This reminded of a passage from Diana Athill’s Instead of a Letter, on her family’s sense of superiority from remotely earned wealth. Really sums up a lot of Ygl*sias et al.
July 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This reminded of a passage from Diana Athill’s Instead of a Letter, on her family’s sense of superiority from remotely earned wealth. Really sums up a lot of Ygl*sias et al.
Just finished this & it’s striking how things do not change: austerity/moral hazard ideology in England was a big driver in making the Irish potato famine so much worse.
June 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Just finished this & it’s striking how things do not change: austerity/moral hazard ideology in England was a big driver in making the Irish potato famine so much worse.
@madoc.bsky.social RIP Walter Brueggemann. A friend at Eerdmans always liked the author photo he used in the 90s(?), looked like Baal horns coming out of his head🙏🏼
June 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
@madoc.bsky.social RIP Walter Brueggemann. A friend at Eerdmans always liked the author photo he used in the 90s(?), looked like Baal horns coming out of his head🙏🏼
May 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
May 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
@epress.bsky.social I’m sure you’re long familiar with it, but just finished this & it reminded of Dirty Work at several points: the community needed, paid (well)—& largely shunned the executioner from ‘honorable society.’
April 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@epress.bsky.social I’m sure you’re long familiar with it, but just finished this & it reminded of Dirty Work at several points: the community needed, paid (well)—& largely shunned the executioner from ‘honorable society.’
This was pretty solid on US Judaism’s capture by Zionism. A similar cri could be made re evangelicalism’s capture by conservatism—faith in…what, now.
April 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
This was pretty solid on US Judaism’s capture by Zionism. A similar cri could be made re evangelicalism’s capture by conservatism—faith in…what, now.
From last night. The look is apt. Two paths for contemporary Christianity indeed.
April 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
From last night. The look is apt. Two paths for contemporary Christianity indeed.
Sometimes it needs 14 years on the shelf.
April 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sometimes it needs 14 years on the shelf.