Scott Cheshire
@scheshire.bsky.social
Books, and pets.
www.scottcheshire.com
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Ralph the pug always finds the light…
November 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Ralph the pug always finds the light…
Ralph the pug, chillin’
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Ralph the pug, chillin’
Up next on my Harold Brodkey journey - his monster debut novel (835 pages!): The Runaway Soul…
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Up next on my Harold Brodkey journey - his monster debut novel (835 pages!): The Runaway Soul…
Currently reading and loving Lou Reed, King of New York, by @willhermes.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Currently reading and loving Lou Reed, King of New York, by @willhermes.bsky.social
After reading Brodkey’s two collections, I’ve decided to be a completist. “This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death” tells of his time with & death from AIDS. It is gutting & wise. I was too young when he was around—& controversial—but I’m happy to find him now. He was a genius. Novels are next!
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
After reading Brodkey’s two collections, I’ve decided to be a completist. “This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death” tells of his time with & death from AIDS. It is gutting & wise. I was too young when he was around—& controversial—but I’m happy to find him now. He was a genius. Novels are next!
Finally finished this behemoth, Harold Brodkey’s second story collection, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode. A whopping nearly 600 pages long. It was one of the most thrilling and rewarding reading experiences I’ve had in years.
November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Finally finished this behemoth, Harold Brodkey’s second story collection, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode. A whopping nearly 600 pages long. It was one of the most thrilling and rewarding reading experiences I’ve had in years.
My father-in-law passed away last year. We miss him. His favorite author was John le Carré. I’ve never read him. And now with my wife’s and my mother-in-law’s permission, I have his entire Le Carré collection. I’m excited to read them all.
December 11, 2024 at 7:55 PM
My father-in-law passed away last year. We miss him. His favorite author was John le Carré. I’ve never read him. And now with my wife’s and my mother-in-law’s permission, I have his entire Le Carré collection. I’m excited to read them all.
We just now got tix to see Ravi Coltrane, at Smoke. An early Christmas present. I’m super excited…
December 11, 2024 at 12:47 AM
We just now got tix to see Ravi Coltrane, at Smoke. An early Christmas present. I’m super excited…
Ralph, the glorious pug dog, at home, luxuriating, but at attention…
December 11, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Ralph, the glorious pug dog, at home, luxuriating, but at attention…
I am diving deep into the works of Gary Indiana, and Resentment is about as brilliant as it gets. His crime trilogy is kind of unparalleled in American fiction. Thank you for republishing these, @semiotexte.bskye.social
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 AM
I am diving deep into the works of Gary Indiana, and Resentment is about as brilliant as it gets. His crime trilogy is kind of unparalleled in American fiction. Thank you for republishing these, @semiotexte.bskye.social
*The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,* by Phillip K. Dick, was surreal, weirdly beautiful, and mysteriously consumed with religious question. I loved it.
June 2, 2024 at 10:46 PM
*The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,* by Phillip K. Dick, was surreal, weirdly beautiful, and mysteriously consumed with religious question. I loved it.
Trimming roses, on a Tribeca rooftop…
May 22, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Trimming roses, on a Tribeca rooftop…
Planting arbor vitae, and trimming a mulberry tree, in Bushwick…
May 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Planting arbor vitae, and trimming a mulberry tree, in Bushwick…
Setting preserved moss, in Park Slope
May 17, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Setting preserved moss, in Park Slope
Geum and iris on a Tribeca roof…
May 14, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Geum and iris on a Tribeca roof…
Planting a wisteria box, on the Upper East Side…
May 8, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Planting a wisteria box, on the Upper East Side…
Spring is here, on a rooftop garden, in Tribeca
April 10, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Spring is here, on a rooftop garden, in Tribeca
The lady and the pug saying goodbye to the Bay.
April 5, 2024 at 11:31 PM
The lady and the pug saying goodbye to the Bay.
A great haul from Tim’s Used Books, in Provincetown, Cape Cod, one of our favorite used book stores. I couldn’t resist the Barthelme paperbacks, or the DeLillo hardback. I only have it in softcover. The rest is new to me. Excited to dig in.
April 4, 2024 at 10:57 PM
A great haul from Tim’s Used Books, in Provincetown, Cape Cod, one of our favorite used book stores. I couldn’t resist the Barthelme paperbacks, or the DeLillo hardback. I only have it in softcover. The rest is new to me. Excited to dig in.
Leo likes it here, too.
April 2, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Leo likes it here, too.
Ralph the pug loves it here.
April 2, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Ralph the pug loves it here.
Ralph the pug and I are in Cape Cod, and it’s magnificent.
March 30, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Ralph the pug and I are in Cape Cod, and it’s magnificent.
Just finished Malcolm Lowry’s first novel, Ultramarine. A bit purple, and fascinating regarding how much a writer insists on getting out of the “will he cheat on his lady back home question” and whether or not he will get in a fight with the ship’s resident tough dude. Not a bad intro to Lowry.
March 5, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Just finished Malcolm Lowry’s first novel, Ultramarine. A bit purple, and fascinating regarding how much a writer insists on getting out of the “will he cheat on his lady back home question” and whether or not he will get in a fight with the ship’s resident tough dude. Not a bad intro to Lowry.
Reread Witold Gombrowicz’s COSMOS, and it remains one of the best novels I’ve ever encountered. Strange, beautiful, mad. And then I read for the first time his PORNOGRAFIA. One of the creepiest novel I’ve ever read. What a great pair. Translated by Eric Mosbacher & Alastair Hamilton, respectively.
February 27, 2024 at 3:34 AM
Reread Witold Gombrowicz’s COSMOS, and it remains one of the best novels I’ve ever encountered. Strange, beautiful, mad. And then I read for the first time his PORNOGRAFIA. One of the creepiest novel I’ve ever read. What a great pair. Translated by Eric Mosbacher & Alastair Hamilton, respectively.
I’m thrilled to finally have these two glossy mammoth tomes in my hands: Praiseworthy, and Carpentaria, both by Alexis Wright. Thank you @cacasey.bsky.social for the heads up! She’s never wrong…
February 11, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I’m thrilled to finally have these two glossy mammoth tomes in my hands: Praiseworthy, and Carpentaria, both by Alexis Wright. Thank you @cacasey.bsky.social for the heads up! She’s never wrong…