Tartt ABCs
@tartt-abc.bsky.social
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered and Described
«Tartt ABCs» is a facet of this project
Investigator – @jonesj.bsky.social
librarian & bibliographer & experimenter
philology • distant reading • digitality
999+ Sources Discovered and Described
«Tartt ABCs» is a facet of this project
Investigator – @jonesj.bsky.social
librarian & bibliographer & experimenter
philology • distant reading • digitality
Donna Tartt talks to Antonio Monda
www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2025...
www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2025...
October 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Donna Tartt talks to Antonio Monda
www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2025...
www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2025...
These July & September skeets
from @lizthegringa.bsky.social
map a corner of Tarttlandia
more usefully than
so many of the earnest essays
... Donna Tartt ...
#booksky
from @lizthegringa.bsky.social
map a corner of Tarttlandia
more usefully than
so many of the earnest essays
... Donna Tartt ...
#booksky
September 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
These July & September skeets
from @lizthegringa.bsky.social
map a corner of Tarttlandia
more usefully than
so many of the earnest essays
... Donna Tartt ...
#booksky
from @lizthegringa.bsky.social
map a corner of Tarttlandia
more usefully than
so many of the earnest essays
... Donna Tartt ...
#booksky
Pessl's inventio = transcribe Donna Tartt ?
—————
art student … labyrinth of wit and murder
a cultural phenomenon … meteoric rise
shunned formal interviews … staged photo ops
astronomical bids … never married
—————
page from
Darkly / Marisha Pessl - 2024
#DarkAcademia #booksky
—————
art student … labyrinth of wit and murder
a cultural phenomenon … meteoric rise
shunned formal interviews … staged photo ops
astronomical bids … never married
—————
page from
Darkly / Marisha Pessl - 2024
#DarkAcademia #booksky
May 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Pessl's inventio = transcribe Donna Tartt ?
—————
art student … labyrinth of wit and murder
a cultural phenomenon … meteoric rise
shunned formal interviews … staged photo ops
astronomical bids … never married
—————
page from
Darkly / Marisha Pessl - 2024
#DarkAcademia #booksky
—————
art student … labyrinth of wit and murder
a cultural phenomenon … meteoric rise
shunned formal interviews … staged photo ops
astronomical bids … never married
—————
page from
Darkly / Marisha Pessl - 2024
#DarkAcademia #booksky
John Banville on Donna Tartt
6 Sept 2011
———
Looks like Banville has
more than one recollection
of that one Miami evening
———
#anecdote
#cosmopolitanism
6 Sept 2011
———
Looks like Banville has
more than one recollection
of that one Miami evening
———
#anecdote
#cosmopolitanism
May 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
John Banville on Donna Tartt
6 Sept 2011
———
Looks like Banville has
more than one recollection
of that one Miami evening
———
#anecdote
#cosmopolitanism
6 Sept 2011
———
Looks like Banville has
more than one recollection
of that one Miami evening
———
#anecdote
#cosmopolitanism
John Banville on Donna Tartt
22 Oct 2024
———
Funny thing
I've had precisely the same experience
without ever spending
even that one evening with the persona
———
The Mysteries of Self-Replication
Echo the Oread
#offstaging
#anecdote
22 Oct 2024
———
Funny thing
I've had precisely the same experience
without ever spending
even that one evening with the persona
———
The Mysteries of Self-Replication
Echo the Oread
#offstaging
#anecdote
May 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
John Banville on Donna Tartt
22 Oct 2024
———
Funny thing
I've had precisely the same experience
without ever spending
even that one evening with the persona
———
The Mysteries of Self-Replication
Echo the Oread
#offstaging
#anecdote
22 Oct 2024
———
Funny thing
I've had precisely the same experience
without ever spending
even that one evening with the persona
———
The Mysteries of Self-Replication
Echo the Oread
#offstaging
#anecdote
Same with me in 2023 ...
see how that happenstance led
to tarttologizing & then on to
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
medium.com/@tartt-abc/t...
——————————
Coming soon ...
my spring 2025
side-trip foray into
The Addiction (1995)
as a kindred emanation
out of 1990s New York City
see how that happenstance led
to tarttologizing & then on to
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
medium.com/@tartt-abc/t...
——————————
Coming soon ...
my spring 2025
side-trip foray into
The Addiction (1995)
as a kindred emanation
out of 1990s New York City
May 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Same with me in 2023 ...
see how that happenstance led
to tarttologizing & then on to
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
medium.com/@tartt-abc/t...
——————————
Coming soon ...
my spring 2025
side-trip foray into
The Addiction (1995)
as a kindred emanation
out of 1990s New York City
see how that happenstance led
to tarttologizing & then on to
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
medium.com/@tartt-abc/t...
——————————
Coming soon ...
my spring 2025
side-trip foray into
The Addiction (1995)
as a kindred emanation
out of 1990s New York City
some Donna Tartt phenomena
exclude themselves from
The Catalogue
one method is
to paywall & to dis-library
& then to come across
as too insignificant
for this cataloguer
to fork out for
may each such phenomenon
self-consume
& disappear
forever
yours too Gyles Brandreth
✣ ✣ ✣ #booksky ✣ ✣ ✣
exclude themselves from
The Catalogue
one method is
to paywall & to dis-library
& then to come across
as too insignificant
for this cataloguer
to fork out for
may each such phenomenon
self-consume
& disappear
forever
yours too Gyles Brandreth
✣ ✣ ✣ #booksky ✣ ✣ ✣
May 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
some Donna Tartt phenomena
exclude themselves from
The Catalogue
one method is
to paywall & to dis-library
& then to come across
as too insignificant
for this cataloguer
to fork out for
may each such phenomenon
self-consume
& disappear
forever
yours too Gyles Brandreth
✣ ✣ ✣ #booksky ✣ ✣ ✣
exclude themselves from
The Catalogue
one method is
to paywall & to dis-library
& then to come across
as too insignificant
for this cataloguer
to fork out for
may each such phenomenon
self-consume
& disappear
forever
yours too Gyles Brandreth
✣ ✣ ✣ #booksky ✣ ✣ ✣
ChatGPT confesses
it has a long way to go
to "know" anything reliable
about the published writings
of Donna Tartt ... unlike
———————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
———————————————————
#booksky
it has a long way to go
to "know" anything reliable
about the published writings
of Donna Tartt ... unlike
———————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
———————————————————
#booksky
April 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ChatGPT confesses
it has a long way to go
to "know" anything reliable
about the published writings
of Donna Tartt ... unlike
———————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
———————————————————
#booksky
it has a long way to go
to "know" anything reliable
about the published writings
of Donna Tartt ... unlike
———————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
———————————————————
#booksky
? The next Donna Tartt ?
blurbles @waterstones.bsky.social
Lead-times in months
15 : TSH / 115 : TLF / 60 : TGF
Back in fall 2013 some "idea"
"excited" Tartt – but
still no content indication
Now into her sixties
Tartt may be too smart to try
to mfg one more teenager
#booksky
blurbles @waterstones.bsky.social
Lead-times in months
15 : TSH / 115 : TLF / 60 : TGF
Back in fall 2013 some "idea"
"excited" Tartt – but
still no content indication
Now into her sixties
Tartt may be too smart to try
to mfg one more teenager
#booksky
April 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
? The next Donna Tartt ?
blurbles @waterstones.bsky.social
Lead-times in months
15 : TSH / 115 : TLF / 60 : TGF
Back in fall 2013 some "idea"
"excited" Tartt – but
still no content indication
Now into her sixties
Tartt may be too smart to try
to mfg one more teenager
#booksky
blurbles @waterstones.bsky.social
Lead-times in months
15 : TSH / 115 : TLF / 60 : TGF
Back in fall 2013 some "idea"
"excited" Tartt – but
still no content indication
Now into her sixties
Tartt may be too smart to try
to mfg one more teenager
#booksky
Russian formalist analysis sees
in the three Donna Tartt novels
—————————————————
a single metatext about growing up
—————————————————
Надежда Сергеевна Шалимова
is onto the case and figures numerously
in
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
—————
#booksky
in the three Donna Tartt novels
—————————————————
a single metatext about growing up
—————————————————
Надежда Сергеевна Шалимова
is onto the case and figures numerously
in
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
—————
#booksky
April 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Russian formalist analysis sees
in the three Donna Tartt novels
—————————————————
a single metatext about growing up
—————————————————
Надежда Сергеевна Шалимова
is onto the case and figures numerously
in
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
—————
#booksky
in the three Donna Tartt novels
—————————————————
a single metatext about growing up
—————————————————
Надежда Сергеевна Шалимова
is onto the case and figures numerously
in
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
—————
#booksky
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@harikunzru.bsky.social
@jrnel.bsky.social
Re: "Donna Tartt phase"
———
Accounts of changes in readings
of Tartt over time
become a subgenre in
———
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
#booksky
@harikunzru.bsky.social
@jrnel.bsky.social
Re: "Donna Tartt phase"
———
Accounts of changes in readings
of Tartt over time
become a subgenre in
———
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
#booksky
April 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
@harikunzru.bsky.social
@jrnel.bsky.social
Re: "Donna Tartt phase"
———
Accounts of changes in readings
of Tartt over time
become a subgenre in
———
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
#booksky
@harikunzru.bsky.social
@jrnel.bsky.social
Re: "Donna Tartt phase"
———
Accounts of changes in readings
of Tartt over time
become a subgenre in
———
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
#booksky
@ferikusu.bsky.social
... se deshincha ...
Si. ¿Pero por qué?
Tartt attributes eight years of writing
to the first part of TSH ...
and two years to the second part
Info in obscure source discovered for
——————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
——————————————————
#booksky
... se deshincha ...
Si. ¿Pero por qué?
Tartt attributes eight years of writing
to the first part of TSH ...
and two years to the second part
Info in obscure source discovered for
——————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
——————————————————
#booksky
March 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@ferikusu.bsky.social
... se deshincha ...
Si. ¿Pero por qué?
Tartt attributes eight years of writing
to the first part of TSH ...
and two years to the second part
Info in obscure source discovered for
——————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
——————————————————
#booksky
... se deshincha ...
Si. ¿Pero por qué?
Tartt attributes eight years of writing
to the first part of TSH ...
and two years to the second part
Info in obscure source discovered for
——————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
——————————————————
#booksky
At some point after 1940
Tallahatchie County farmer
Henry Wesley Tart 1877-1958
and two generations of offspring
added a t onto the Tart surname
∴ Donna Tartt =
first-generation total triple T
#booksky
Tallahatchie County farmer
Henry Wesley Tart 1877-1958
and two generations of offspring
added a t onto the Tart surname
∴ Donna Tartt =
first-generation total triple T
#booksky
March 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
At some point after 1940
Tallahatchie County farmer
Henry Wesley Tart 1877-1958
and two generations of offspring
added a t onto the Tart surname
∴ Donna Tartt =
first-generation total triple T
#booksky
Tallahatchie County farmer
Henry Wesley Tart 1877-1958
and two generations of offspring
added a t onto the Tart surname
∴ Donna Tartt =
first-generation total triple T
#booksky
One fact detailed in the forthcoming
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
———
In an obscure 2003 interview
Donna Tartt says
she has stopped smoking
———
@debwriting.bsky.social
#booksky
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
———
In an obscure 2003 interview
Donna Tartt says
she has stopped smoking
———
@debwriting.bsky.social
#booksky
March 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
One fact detailed in the forthcoming
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
———
In an obscure 2003 interview
Donna Tartt says
she has stopped smoking
———
@debwriting.bsky.social
#booksky
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
———
In an obscure 2003 interview
Donna Tartt says
she has stopped smoking
———
@debwriting.bsky.social
#booksky
Among the hundreds
catalogued already ...
this sharp new take on
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
from @shrimpchipsss.bsky.social
in yaoi zine 5
via @tshirt.bsky.social
#booksky
catalogued already ...
this sharp new take on
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
from @shrimpchipsss.bsky.social
in yaoi zine 5
via @tshirt.bsky.social
#booksky
March 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Among the hundreds
catalogued already ...
this sharp new take on
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
from @shrimpchipsss.bsky.social
in yaoi zine 5
via @tshirt.bsky.social
#booksky
catalogued already ...
this sharp new take on
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
from @shrimpchipsss.bsky.social
in yaoi zine 5
via @tshirt.bsky.social
#booksky
Paragraphs about and outline of
———————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
———————————————————
now posted to Tartt ABCs
medium.com/@tartt-abc/c...
#booksky
———————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
———————————————————
now posted to Tartt ABCs
medium.com/@tartt-abc/c...
#booksky
March 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Paragraphs about and outline of
———————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
———————————————————
now posted to Tartt ABCs
medium.com/@tartt-abc/c...
#booksky
———————————————————
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
———————————————————
now posted to Tartt ABCs
medium.com/@tartt-abc/c...
#booksky
@gordonmacmillan.bsky.social
speculates around the possibilities
of novel #4 from
an over-mystified Donna Tartt
——————————————————
• Definite inklings of content preceded
#2 and #3 by … years
• Well over 100 Tartt interviews exist
speculates around the possibilities
of novel #4 from
an over-mystified Donna Tartt
——————————————————
• Definite inklings of content preceded
#2 and #3 by … years
• Well over 100 Tartt interviews exist
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
@gordonmacmillan.bsky.social
speculates around the possibilities
of novel #4 from
an over-mystified Donna Tartt
——————————————————
• Definite inklings of content preceded
#2 and #3 by … years
• Well over 100 Tartt interviews exist
speculates around the possibilities
of novel #4 from
an over-mystified Donna Tartt
——————————————————
• Definite inklings of content preceded
#2 and #3 by … years
• Well over 100 Tartt interviews exist
Le petit livre de Chloé Saffy
a trouvé sa place parmi les
————————————————————
999+ Sources Discovered and Described
de
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
————————————————————
@lefeusacreeditions.bsky.social
@mariannetramoy.bsky.social
a trouvé sa place parmi les
————————————————————
999+ Sources Discovered and Described
de
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
————————————————————
@lefeusacreeditions.bsky.social
@mariannetramoy.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Le petit livre de Chloé Saffy
a trouvé sa place parmi les
————————————————————
999+ Sources Discovered and Described
de
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
————————————————————
@lefeusacreeditions.bsky.social
@mariannetramoy.bsky.social
a trouvé sa place parmi les
————————————————————
999+ Sources Discovered and Described
de
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
————————————————————
@lefeusacreeditions.bsky.social
@mariannetramoy.bsky.social
Anecdotal metric just in
from @danziger.bsky.social
===
Students not adapting to a world
obsessed with STEM & FIRE
===
Fantasy? Having a student life
& skipping all the classes
===
World of murder ... à la Tartt
from @danziger.bsky.social
===
Students not adapting to a world
obsessed with STEM & FIRE
===
Fantasy? Having a student life
& skipping all the classes
===
World of murder ... à la Tartt
February 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Anecdotal metric just in
from @danziger.bsky.social
===
Students not adapting to a world
obsessed with STEM & FIRE
===
Fantasy? Having a student life
& skipping all the classes
===
World of murder ... à la Tartt
from @danziger.bsky.social
===
Students not adapting to a world
obsessed with STEM & FIRE
===
Fantasy? Having a student life
& skipping all the classes
===
World of murder ... à la Tartt
> Field Note <
Marc Harrington is using
quotation from a 7 May 2012 letter
from Donna Tartt to Claude Fredericks
to promote publishing of extracts
from the Fredericks journal at
@extracts.substack.com
Marc Harrington is using
quotation from a 7 May 2012 letter
from Donna Tartt to Claude Fredericks
to promote publishing of extracts
from the Fredericks journal at
@extracts.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
> Field Note <
Marc Harrington is using
quotation from a 7 May 2012 letter
from Donna Tartt to Claude Fredericks
to promote publishing of extracts
from the Fredericks journal at
@extracts.substack.com
Marc Harrington is using
quotation from a 7 May 2012 letter
from Donna Tartt to Claude Fredericks
to promote publishing of extracts
from the Fredericks journal at
@extracts.substack.com
Insightful report on contextual use
————————————————
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
————————————————
by medievalist Zachary Hines
at Ohio State University–Lima
————————————————
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
————————————————
by medievalist Zachary Hines
at Ohio State University–Lima
January 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Insightful report on contextual use
————————————————
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
————————————————
by medievalist Zachary Hines
at Ohio State University–Lima
————————————————
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
————————————————
by medievalist Zachary Hines
at Ohio State University–Lima
12 September 2024
into Catalan
appears to be
the most recently published
translation of
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
January 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
12 September 2024
into Catalan
appears to be
the most recently published
translation of
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
It looks like «Donna Tartt»
first emerges on the Bluesky platform
in a «rediscovering» by @annagat.bsky.social
~~~
A consummate cosmopolitan
intros an Interintellect round-up
with a mini-memoir of youthful yearning
~~~
The white-hot branding iron
glows in the fascinating fire
~~~
#scrollbacking
~~~
January 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
It looks like «Donna Tartt»
first emerges on the Bluesky platform
in a «rediscovering» by @annagat.bsky.social
~~~
A consummate cosmopolitan
intros an Interintellect round-up
with a mini-memoir of youthful yearning
~~~
The white-hot branding iron
glows in the fascinating fire
~~~
#scrollbacking
~~~
The Bluesky account
@donna-tartt.com
persisted as a phenomenon
for at least 285 days
from first recorded observation Mar 4
to last recorded observation Dec 14
@donna-tartt.com
persisted as a phenomenon
for at least 285 days
from first recorded observation Mar 4
to last recorded observation Dec 14
December 28, 2024 at 7:29 AM
The Bluesky account
@donna-tartt.com
persisted as a phenomenon
for at least 285 days
from first recorded observation Mar 4
to last recorded observation Dec 14
@donna-tartt.com
persisted as a phenomenon
for at least 285 days
from first recorded observation Mar 4
to last recorded observation Dec 14