rommy
banner
rommy.nyc
rommy
@rommy.nyc
In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B. Hughes #books #literature #noir
May 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Robert Creeley #poetry
March 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
2025 in books so far

#books #reading #shortstories
January 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It was an affair of fat green kidneys laid down on an egg yolk background.

Raymond Chandler
The Lady in the Lake
#literature #raymondchandler #books
April 17, 2024 at 12:57 AM
I miss reading on the NYC subway

#reading #literature #raymondchandler #noir #hardboiled
April 9, 2024 at 1:30 AM
I wish I were old enough to know what it would’ve been like to make out to Spandau Ballet’s True in the bucket seats of my 1986 Datsun.
April 4, 2024 at 10:38 AM
A Wedding in Hell - Charles Simic
#poetry #writing
March 16, 2024 at 11:03 PM
John Cheever’s writing reminds me so much of Carson McCullers’ writing. Oof.
March 15, 2024 at 11:34 PM
It was a harsh and an ugly light, stretched like some upholstery webbing beneath the damask of the year.

John Cheever
The Wapshot Scandal
#literature #writing #books
March 15, 2024 at 11:30 PM
He felt uncommonly happy in this sparsely populated place; felt some marked loosening of his discontents.

John Cheever
The Wapshot Scandal
#literature #writing #books
March 13, 2024 at 12:08 PM
March 10, 2024 at 5:15 PM
This can’t be street legal
February 24, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Happy birthday, Miss Nina Simone
February 21, 2024 at 11:56 AM
6am on a Monday in an Uber to JFK and my dude is blasting Tina Turner and Gloria Gaynor and I could never hate on it. He’s fiercely catapulting me into the week.
February 5, 2024 at 11:17 AM
The tiny flame of the lighter flickered between us, as perishable as the atmosphere which our exaggerated politeness had created. The merest breath would have extinguished the one, the least incautious gesture or word would have destroyed the other.

Christopher Isherwood
The Last of Mr. Norris
January 29, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Once again the air reeks of microwaved popcorn. Once again I am only who I am.

George Saunders
Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz
January 28, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Reposted by rommy
You call it nostr
I call it bitcoin forum
January 22, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Gerard Malanga
January 22, 2024 at 1:29 PM
The irony that the screening of American Fiction I attended last night consisted of an audience almost entirely made up of white folks on MLK Jr. day is not lost on me.
January 16, 2024 at 2:11 PM
If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

Alan Watts
January 8, 2024 at 1:55 AM
It seemed to him the room of an inhibited bachelor. It was dimly horrifying, like timid secret desires for unattainable intimacies.

Graham Greene
The Confidential Agent
January 6, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Reposted by rommy
Anxious Corridor
Kansuke Yamamoto
1940
December 11, 2023 at 9:23 PM
I always assumed that the term commiserate had an element of misery associated with it. To experience misery with someone else.

Com-miser-ate. No?

Alas, it just means to sympathize with someone according to the internet.
December 21, 2023 at 2:04 PM
This whole trend of Brooklyn bodegas turning into unsanctioned weed shops is disappointing my BEC and chopped cheese cravings. The weed shop that sells chopped cheeses would make an absolute killing.
December 21, 2023 at 1:44 PM