Paul Ehrlich
@paulehrlich.bsky.social
Freelance journalist back in Manhattan after many years based in Hong Kong and Bangkok.
Simone Weil's The Need for Roots. Wonderful stuff. Strange mind, but focused. She has new thoughts.
September 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Simone Weil's The Need for Roots. Wonderful stuff. Strange mind, but focused. She has new thoughts.
The Odyssey, newly translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC, is wonderful—and I’ve read three other translations. His in-depth knowledge of Homer coupled with an ear for the rhythm and language of the poet, makes Odysseus’s journey come vividly alive.
September 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Odyssey, newly translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC, is wonderful—and I’ve read three other translations. His in-depth knowledge of Homer coupled with an ear for the rhythm and language of the poet, makes Odysseus’s journey come vividly alive.
Circe’s this craft, the trim-coifed goddess. Ezra Pound, Canto I
September 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Circe’s this craft, the trim-coifed goddess. Ezra Pound, Canto I
He saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…
September 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
He saw the best minds of his generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…
September 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“a benign dementia that should be engulfing America” from Love In America by Marianne Moore
September 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“a benign dementia that should be engulfing America” from Love In America by Marianne Moore
Time to travel again with Kerouac and his restless cast of seekers “mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time.”
September 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Time to travel again with Kerouac and his restless cast of seekers “mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time.”
Guys like good old Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius were no fools. Though stoicism is not a final philosophy, it’s got a lot to it.
September 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Guys like good old Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius were no fools. Though stoicism is not a final philosophy, it’s got a lot to it.
“Communicating doors, long barred, reopened in my brain.” Proust
September 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“Communicating doors, long barred, reopened in my brain.” Proust
Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War. How composers Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, and Britten lived through the war and Holocaust, and transformed their experiences into music.
September 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War. How composers Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, and Britten lived through the war and Holocaust, and transformed their experiences into music.
from John Cheever’s The Wapshot Chronicle
September 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
from John Cheever’s The Wapshot Chronicle
These two volumes are a superb history of modern poetry. #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrytwitter #poetrylovers
September 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
These two volumes are a superb history of modern poetry. #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrytwitter #poetrylovers
Opening of Benjamin Labatut’s superb novel, When We Cease To Understand The World
September 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Opening of Benjamin Labatut’s superb novel, When We Cease To Understand The World
I have always found that Rabelais' wisdom approaches the transcendent while taking the nouminal world for what it is.
September 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I have always found that Rabelais' wisdom approaches the transcendent while taking the nouminal world for what it is.
September 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Blake saw angels in the trees. It would be a mistake not to believe him. Maybe it’s only the poets that can be trusted these days. #poets #poetrycommunity
September 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Blake saw angels in the trees. It would be a mistake not to believe him. Maybe it’s only the poets that can be trusted these days. #poets #poetrycommunity
September 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke
September 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke
Proust on the Giotto chapel, from the volume, The Fugitive
September 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Proust on the Giotto chapel, from the volume, The Fugitive
Anyone read Mann’s mammoth Joseph and His Brothers? I’ve read everything else by him, but not this. Reviews welcomed. #literature #booktwt
September 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Anyone read Mann’s mammoth Joseph and His Brothers? I’ve read everything else by him, but not this. Reviews welcomed. #literature #booktwt