Just thinking about the JP Morgans grinding poors under their heels and then reading about them in their fancy copies of Zola
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just thinking about the JP Morgans grinding poors under their heels and then reading about them in their fancy copies of Zola
Voltaire, women's fashion - not sure that's in keeping with my image of JPM. A 2-part Medici biography is more like it
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voltaire, women's fashion - not sure that's in keeping with my image of JPM. A 2-part Medici biography is more like it
Arrived at J Pierpont Morgan's house ready to judge him hard for his library
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Arrived at J Pierpont Morgan's house ready to judge him hard for his library
My smallest of quibbles is that I think KR is quite systematically exploding contemporary genres. And perhaps for the sake of that same urge to revolution that Josh Connor's character tries to elide
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My smallest of quibbles is that I think KR is quite systematically exploding contemporary genres. And perhaps for the sake of that same urge to revolution that Josh Connor's character tries to elide
A bit late for #ModWrite this week because I was at my Monday 9 a.m. volunteer student book club. To the Lighthouse! Ecocritical Woolf! Students literally shouting NO WAY over some of the best square brackets in Anglophone fiction!
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A bit late for #ModWrite this week because I was at my Monday 9 a.m. volunteer student book club. To the Lighthouse! Ecocritical Woolf! Students literally shouting NO WAY over some of the best square brackets in Anglophone fiction!
Allgrims also make bookshelves look good, big recommend!
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Allgrims also make bookshelves look good, big recommend!
Yesterday evening like a little cocoon – at a bookshop literally named the Big Red Bookstore, on a sweet couch, grilling @markhussey.bsky.social about his superb new book, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel, to a full room of regular "common readers"
October 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Yesterday evening like a little cocoon – at a bookshop literally named the Big Red Bookstore, on a sweet couch, grilling @markhussey.bsky.social about his superb new book, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel, to a full room of regular "common readers"
Chantal, stop making me feel feelings dammit
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Chantal, stop making me feel feelings dammit
We were so tired but Ray made something amazing from the fridge: warmed pita in the covered basket, duck fat potatoes, shredded masala chicken, babaganoush, tomatoes, hummus, pickled jalapeños
September 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
We were so tired but Ray made something amazing from the fridge: warmed pita in the covered basket, duck fat potatoes, shredded masala chicken, babaganoush, tomatoes, hummus, pickled jalapeños
Midtown going to seed nowadays tsk tsk
July 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Midtown going to seed nowadays tsk tsk
New version of the "this is fine" meme just dropped
July 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
New version of the "this is fine" meme just dropped
If you're an Eliot scholar you're pretty intrepid, meaning you traipse about the English countryside in 32°c summer heat chasing follies the poet might have seen
July 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
If you're an Eliot scholar you're pretty intrepid, meaning you traipse about the English countryside in 32°c summer heat chasing follies the poet might have seen
So fun bringing some Stuart Hall energy to the T S Eliot Summer School 🌱
July 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
So fun bringing some Stuart Hall energy to the T S Eliot Summer School 🌱
Academics identifying with gargoyles from medieval times to now
July 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Academics identifying with gargoyles from medieval times to now
In England where they still use atlases
July 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
In England where they still use atlases
(Agreeing from afar as I didn't grow up in the US)
If you are in the mood for a novel or audiobook that's about the bullied queer gen x minority types (plus meth epidemic), reliable sources tell me this is pretty great!
If you are in the mood for a novel or audiobook that's about the bullied queer gen x minority types (plus meth epidemic), reliable sources tell me this is pretty great!
June 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
(Agreeing from afar as I didn't grow up in the US)
If you are in the mood for a novel or audiobook that's about the bullied queer gen x minority types (plus meth epidemic), reliable sources tell me this is pretty great!
If you are in the mood for a novel or audiobook that's about the bullied queer gen x minority types (plus meth epidemic), reliable sources tell me this is pretty great!
Took way too long to get this one, brain is fully CUNYfied
June 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Took way too long to get this one, brain is fully CUNYfied
People are marching, and my book has its first review! So grateful and delighted - thank you, @johnmorgenstern.bsky.social 🌻
June 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
People are marching, and my book has its first review! So grateful and delighted - thank you, @johnmorgenstern.bsky.social 🌻
Left the flower pots out last winter, turns out birbs stashed acorns in them all. What's the opposite of fafo?
June 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Left the flower pots out last winter, turns out birbs stashed acorns in them all. What's the opposite of fafo?
A story in triptych:
- Guys, please read books
- Things written in books fundamentally shake us
- By reading more we can solve many problems, see?
- Guys, please read books
- Things written in books fundamentally shake us
- By reading more we can solve many problems, see?
May 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A story in triptych:
- Guys, please read books
- Things written in books fundamentally shake us
- By reading more we can solve many problems, see?
- Guys, please read books
- Things written in books fundamentally shake us
- By reading more we can solve many problems, see?
Favourite film set in the place where you live?
I'm cheating a little bc I don't live in Calcutta, and this still isn't in the city proper anyway, but who can resist such a glorious sun filtered tree?
I'm cheating a little bc I don't live in Calcutta, and this still isn't in the city proper anyway, but who can resist such a glorious sun filtered tree?
May 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Favourite film set in the place where you live?
I'm cheating a little bc I don't live in Calcutta, and this still isn't in the city proper anyway, but who can resist such a glorious sun filtered tree?
I'm cheating a little bc I don't live in Calcutta, and this still isn't in the city proper anyway, but who can resist such a glorious sun filtered tree?