julian george
@juliangeorge-abhf.bsky.social
Bebe, CB editions. Read it and plotz.
https://www.cbeditions.com/George.html
Bios of Salvador Dali & Miles Davis. Out of print. But of course.
After all, there is nothing but failure. -- Thomas Bernhard
https://www.cbeditions.com/George.html
Bios of Salvador Dali & Miles Davis. Out of print. But of course.
After all, there is nothing but failure. -- Thomas Bernhard
Pinned
Julian George ~ Secretariat Rides into History, Belmont Park, 9 June, 1973
J’aimé un cheval – qui était-ce? – Saint-John Perse The race is run. The rest of the field is still out there, eating dust. They’ll be fine, once they get home. A rub down, an apple. Johnny Ca…
newworldwriting.net
Today is Derby Day. I wrote this about my favourite horse and the greatest sporting event I've ever seen. For those unacquainted with racing, Belmont is the third leg of the Triple Crown, and the toughest to win, a mile and a half with a tricky turn.
newworldwriting.net/julian-georg...
newworldwriting.net/julian-georg...
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Great poem translated by WWB contributor Andre Naffis-Sahely! Check out his other work on our website: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
December 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Great poem translated by WWB contributor Andre Naffis-Sahely! Check out his other work on our website: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors...
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The work of the writer and critic Susan Sontag remains endlessly relevant and urgent. She died on this day, twenty-one years ago, and to mark her life we’re sharing a favourite archive essay in memory of her hunger for knowledge and the remarkable body of work she left behind
Susan Sontag was a monster, of the very best kind | Aeon Essays
She took things too seriously. She was difficult and unyielding. That’s why Susan Sontag’s work matters so much even now
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December 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The work of the writer and critic Susan Sontag remains endlessly relevant and urgent. She died on this day, twenty-one years ago, and to mark her life we’re sharing a favourite archive essay in memory of her hunger for knowledge and the remarkable body of work she left behind
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A favorite essay on snow, by Charlie Fox, in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...
A Mind of Winter | Charlie Fox
The feeling of snow
www.cabinetmagazine.org
December 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A favorite essay on snow, by Charlie Fox, in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/59/fo...
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"'Love Tapes' is not only a historical record but a living reminder that we hold the power to shape technologies into constructive, even tender, spaces of our own making." Janna Jones on the resonances of Wendy Clarke’s 1980s project. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/everybody-loves-a-lover/
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"'Love Tapes' is not only a historical record but a living reminder that we hold the power to shape technologies into constructive, even tender, spaces of our own making." Janna Jones on the resonances of Wendy Clarke’s 1980s project. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/everybody-loves-a-lover/
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I wrote about this notebook before (14 years ago!): www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
My mother's notebook of Christmas past
For 46 years, Charles Boyle's mother kept details of every Christmas present she gave. He explains why he'd brave a burning building to save her list
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I wrote about this notebook before (14 years ago!): www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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"With the publication of 'Only Sing,' we glimpse the full, albeit flawed, extent of Berryman’s achievement." Rowland Bagnall reviews John Berryman’s "Only Sing."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/strange-woofs/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/strange-woofs/
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"With the publication of 'Only Sing,' we glimpse the full, albeit flawed, extent of Berryman’s achievement." Rowland Bagnall reviews John Berryman’s "Only Sing."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/strange-woofs/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/strange-woofs/
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Our gratitude and respect to Maestro Bernard Herrmann
June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975
What’s your favorite Bernard Herrmann score? 🎶
June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975
What’s your favorite Bernard Herrmann score? 🎶
December 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Our gratitude and respect to Maestro Bernard Herrmann
June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975
What’s your favorite Bernard Herrmann score? 🎶
June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975
What’s your favorite Bernard Herrmann score? 🎶
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I have the softest of spots for poor Ernest Dowson—a spot touched and fortified by this compassionate, finely chiseled little elegy in @teniemi.bsky.social lovely chapbook, “At Night and Other Poems.”
December 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I have the softest of spots for poor Ernest Dowson—a spot touched and fortified by this compassionate, finely chiseled little elegy in @teniemi.bsky.social lovely chapbook, “At Night and Other Poems.”
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DIY online radio stations allow humanity and personality to surface in a tide of soulless and reductive algorithmic playlists, argues Paul Rekret in The Wire 503/504.
Read the full article online here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Read the full article online here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Against the Stream - The Wire
DIY online radio stations allow humanity and personality to surface in a tide of soulless and reductive algorithmic playlists, argues Paul Rekret in The Wire 503/504
www.thewire.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
DIY online radio stations allow humanity and personality to surface in a tide of soulless and reductive algorithmic playlists, argues Paul Rekret in The Wire 503/504.
Read the full article online here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Read the full article online here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
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how would you describe this century so far
𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨
famously you have spoken of the uselessness of interviews
𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘐
can you
𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦
I wanted to use the word ‘labyrinthine’
‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨
famously you have spoken of the uselessness of interviews
𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘐
can you
𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦
I wanted to use the word ‘labyrinthine’
‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Lieu Vague’
www.lrb.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
how would you describe this century so far
𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨
famously you have spoken of the uselessness of interviews
𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘐
can you
𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦
I wanted to use the word ‘labyrinthine’
‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
𝘢𝘭𝘭-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨
famously you have spoken of the uselessness of interviews
𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘐
can you
𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘦
I wanted to use the word ‘labyrinthine’
‘Lieu Vague’, a poem by Anne Carson.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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@joycecaroloates.bsky.social and #MarkMirsky sat down at #CCNY in November 2024 to discuss #writing, #publishing, #DonaldBarthelme, and more.
🎥 To watch the full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5am...
🎥 To watch the full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5am...
Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Mark Jay Mirsky (Full Interview)
YouTube video by Fiction Magazine
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December 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social and #MarkMirsky sat down at #CCNY in November 2024 to discuss #writing, #publishing, #DonaldBarthelme, and more.
🎥 To watch the full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5am...
🎥 To watch the full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5am...
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“All that Victory was and all that it remains made space for us.”
— Ashanté M. Reese traces the legacy of Victory Grill—now Victory East—as a vital Austin haven where Black artists and allies found respite, made music, and claimed freedom.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/7LWxx
— Ashanté M. Reese traces the legacy of Victory Grill—now Victory East—as a vital Austin haven where Black artists and allies found respite, made music, and claimed freedom.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/7LWxx
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“All that Victory was and all that it remains made space for us.”
— Ashanté M. Reese traces the legacy of Victory Grill—now Victory East—as a vital Austin haven where Black artists and allies found respite, made music, and claimed freedom.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/7LWxx
— Ashanté M. Reese traces the legacy of Victory Grill—now Victory East—as a vital Austin haven where Black artists and allies found respite, made music, and claimed freedom.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/7LWxx
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I was just wondering on this glorious Saturday if anyone here had some advice about how someone like me could earn money working freelance in anything related to books. If you have a killer idea please DM me or post it here for all to see. And yes, I really do have my eyes open and all that... 🙏
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I was just wondering on this glorious Saturday if anyone here had some advice about how someone like me could earn money working freelance in anything related to books. If you have a killer idea please DM me or post it here for all to see. And yes, I really do have my eyes open and all that... 🙏
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“For me, the heart of everything is narrative and humanity.”
—Four-time Grammy winner @lylelovett.bsky.social sits down for lunch and an interview with Bret Anthony Johnston which appears in the Austin LIVE! Music Issue, out now on newsstands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/EwMfS
—Four-time Grammy winner @lylelovett.bsky.social sits down for lunch and an interview with Bret Anthony Johnston which appears in the Austin LIVE! Music Issue, out now on newsstands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/EwMfS
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“For me, the heart of everything is narrative and humanity.”
—Four-time Grammy winner @lylelovett.bsky.social sits down for lunch and an interview with Bret Anthony Johnston which appears in the Austin LIVE! Music Issue, out now on newsstands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/EwMfS
—Four-time Grammy winner @lylelovett.bsky.social sits down for lunch and an interview with Bret Anthony Johnston which appears in the Austin LIVE! Music Issue, out now on newsstands.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/EwMfS
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My bit on Larkin's The Less Deceived, which is 70 this year -and every bit as good as The Whitsun Weddings. Thanks as ever to @engelsbergideas.bsky.social & thank you again to @plsoc.bsky.social for hosting the live version.
The poet's breakthrough collection, The Less Deceived, anticipated the sexual freedoms of the 1960s while pre-emptively rejecting its promises.
Philip Larkin’s arrival, undeceived | @jwikeley.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/phi...
Philip Larkin’s arrival, undeceived | @jwikeley.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/phi...
Philip Larkin's arrival, undeceived
The poet's breakthrough collection, The Less Deceived, anticipated the sexual freedoms of the 1960s while pre-emptively rejecting its promises.
engelsbergideas.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My bit on Larkin's The Less Deceived, which is 70 this year -and every bit as good as The Whitsun Weddings. Thanks as ever to @engelsbergideas.bsky.social & thank you again to @plsoc.bsky.social for hosting the live version.
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Texas music legend Joe Ely died on Monday at 78 years old. We invite you to read this story of his friendship with Joe Strummer and The Clash, a tale of two kindred spirits who found common ground in poetry, rockabilly, and a shared love of the open road. https://shorturl.at/u8KFI
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Texas music legend Joe Ely died on Monday at 78 years old. We invite you to read this story of his friendship with Joe Strummer and The Clash, a tale of two kindred spirits who found common ground in poetry, rockabilly, and a shared love of the open road. https://shorturl.at/u8KFI
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"One goes to psychoanalysis, as one might go to poetry, for better words,” the essayist and analyst Adam Phillips writes. In our new issue, nine poets explore the shared modes of analysis and the lyric.
The Analytic Lyric: A Poetry Folio
Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis
yalereview.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"One goes to psychoanalysis, as one might go to poetry, for better words,” the essayist and analyst Adam Phillips writes. In our new issue, nine poets explore the shared modes of analysis and the lyric.
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" . . . but it still feels odd to turn to a bibliography and find crossword clues."
James Brophy on 'Critical Lives: John Ashbery' by Jess Cotton. Reaction Books.
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James Brophy on 'Critical Lives: John Ashbery' by Jess Cotton. Reaction Books.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
" . . . but it still feels odd to turn to a bibliography and find crossword clues."
James Brophy on 'Critical Lives: John Ashbery' by Jess Cotton. Reaction Books.
Subscribe.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/whence-little-ja-whence-anybody-john-ashberys-critical-life/
James Brophy on 'Critical Lives: John Ashbery' by Jess Cotton. Reaction Books.
Subscribe.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19-winter-2025/whence-little-ja-whence-anybody-john-ashberys-critical-life/
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2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.
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❛ The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, as long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were.
Shirley Jackson, born #OTD in 1916.
Shirley Jackson, born #OTD in 1916.
December 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
❛ The very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, as long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were.
Shirley Jackson, born #OTD in 1916.
Shirley Jackson, born #OTD in 1916.
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"Home remains for me a word without a clear referent."
In the aftermath of a divorce, Martha Cooley's blooming friendship with a painter forces her to question the meaning of home and life. Read Cooley's essay below!
In the aftermath of a divorce, Martha Cooley's blooming friendship with a painter forces her to question the meaning of home and life. Read Cooley's essay below!
The Melnikov House
MARTHA COOLEY <br> Despite all my jiggling, the key didn’t work. My husband had had the locks changed a few months earlier, when our tenants left, and neither of us had remembered I’d need a new key.…
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December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Home remains for me a word without a clear referent."
In the aftermath of a divorce, Martha Cooley's blooming friendship with a painter forces her to question the meaning of home and life. Read Cooley's essay below!
In the aftermath of a divorce, Martha Cooley's blooming friendship with a painter forces her to question the meaning of home and life. Read Cooley's essay below!
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An understanding friend has kindly sent me the recipe for Charlie Mingus's eggnog. Christmas is saved.
www.charlesmingus.com/blog/news/mi...
www.charlesmingus.com/blog/news/mi...
'Tis the Season for MINGUS’ 5-STAR RAPTUROUS DEADLY HOLIDAY EGGNOG! — CHARLES MINGUS
“Mingus’s holiday eggnog was a concoction so delicious and mind-blowing, you would do anything to make sure that you saw him at Christmas. Over the phone once, he gave me the recipe.” — Janet Co...
www.charlesmingus.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
An understanding friend has kindly sent me the recipe for Charlie Mingus's eggnog. Christmas is saved.
www.charlesmingus.com/blog/news/mi...
www.charlesmingus.com/blog/news/mi...
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Todd Haynes's sublime CAROL is turning ten. I once wrote about it about, it, and the problem of the happy lesbian, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.
The Haynes Code | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews a recent anthology about Todd Haynes as feminist-queer filmmaker.
lareviewofbooks.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Todd Haynes's sublime CAROL is turning ten. I once wrote about it about, it, and the problem of the happy lesbian, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.