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In a Lonely Place - Dorothy B. Hughes #books #literature #noir
Excerpt
May 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Robert Creeley #poetry
Robert Creeley’s poem The Invoice
March 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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2025 in books so far

#books #reading #shortstories
Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
January 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
A photo of Raymond Chandler’s The Lady in the Lake at Last Drop Tavern in San Francisco
April 17, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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I miss reading on the NYC subway

#reading #literature #raymondchandler #noir #hardboiled
A photo of the cover of Raymond Chandler’s The Lady in the Lake on the subway
April 9, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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A Wedding in Hell - Charles Simic
#poetry #writing
A photo of Charles Simic’s poem A Wedding in Hell
March 16, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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#currentlyreading #johncheever #literature
The cover of John Cheever’s The Wapshot Scandal and a rye old-fashioned
March 10, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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This can’t be street legal
A kids jeep ride missing a wheel
February 24, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Gerard Malanga
A poem by Gerard Malanga called “paris to new york non stop”
January 22, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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Charles Bukowski - The Wasted Profession
the wasted profession by Charles Bukowski all the words, you know, it's hard to tell if you're truly on course or on some vanity trip: how much can be said, how much has already been said, and why? other writers' words do me little good, then, why should mine be special? all my words... do they create laughter through the flame? the same poets reading over and over again in the same venues; I am embarrassed for them and for myself: do we really think that we are fashioning speech more unusual than a stock market or weather report? all the words—we type away-on and on—most of us living lives ordinary and without courage are we sick to think that our speech is exceptional? I don't like us and I never did —is there anything worse than a creature who lives only to write poetry?
December 10, 2023 at 11:52 PM
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The very first cable remote I remember having when I was a kid. It was wired, not wireless. The click was so satisfying.
Cablevision’s early cable remote was a wired click box the size of a small keyboard.
December 3, 2023 at 2:49 PM
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The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene
The first paragraph of The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene: The gulls swept over Dover. They sailed out like flakes of the fog, and tacked back towards the hidden town, while the siren mourned with them: other ships replied, a whole wake lifted up their voices - for whose death? The ship moved at half speed through the bitter autumn evening. It reminded D. of a hearse, rolling slowly and discreetly towards the garden of peace', the driver careful not to shake the coffin, as if the body minded a jolt or two. Hysterical women shrieked among the shrouds.
December 2, 2023 at 12:24 AM
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I’ll take it
My top artist of the year on Spotify was Ennio Morricone apparently and I’m not at all ashamed.
December 1, 2023 at 11:20 AM
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An old favorite
Digital facial reconstruction of an old Roman bust of Emperor Vitellius looks like a guy from New Jersey who would hang out with Tony Soprano.
December 1, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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My Letterboxd stats come as a shock to me. The 1950s as my highest rated decade? I suppose it’s due to having the luxury of only picking the best ones after decades of available analysis and film criticism and the benefit of avoiding the mediocrity.
My highest rated decade of films is the 1950s shockingly
November 30, 2023 at 11:24 AM
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A pink house in New Orleans with a white Ford Crown Victoria out front Dandelion vine on a wall with some light leak in Oaxaca A hot dog stand in Manhattan at dusk A religious statue wearing Mardi Gras beads in New Orleans
November 25, 2023 at 10:24 AM
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This man is mentally ill.
November 24, 2023 at 6:45 PM
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Picked up this book of poems by Norman Rosten.
Book cover of Thrive Upon the Rock - New Poems by Norman Rosten Short Prayer - a poem by Norman Rosten
November 24, 2023 at 12:10 AM
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#nowreading
November 18, 2023 at 1:02 AM
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We out here!
.5 selfie shot at a Brooklyn bar in Clinton Hill
November 16, 2023 at 1:01 PM