On Louis XIV, Mitford writes “…he did not think it was right that Christ should speak the language of poor people.” #NYRBWomen25
December 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
On Louis XIV, Mitford writes “…he did not think it was right that Christ should speak the language of poor people.” #NYRBWomen25
#NYRBWomen25 “I came to New York from Syracuse. Well, I didn’t really come to New York, I left Syracuse.” (p. 406) A sentiment resonant for all of us who have left small towns.
November 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
#NYRBWomen25 “I came to New York from Syracuse. Well, I didn’t really come to New York, I left Syracuse.” (p. 406) A sentiment resonant for all of us who have left small towns.
#NYRBWomen25 Ouch, Eve so harsh in her assessment of Canadians on p.213!
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
#NYRBWomen25 Ouch, Eve so harsh in her assessment of Canadians on p.213!
#NYRBWomen2025 On navigating LA the Eve Babitz way: “Sure, you could complain about the heat and the freeways, or you could eat this perfect sandwich and listen to the birds sing.”
October 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
#NYRBWomen2025 On navigating LA the Eve Babitz way: “Sure, you could complain about the heat and the freeways, or you could eat this perfect sandwich and listen to the birds sing.”
#RachelCuskTogether I first read this book 9 years ago and made an underline of a sentence that still strikes me today. “Money is a country all its own.”
October 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
#RachelCuskTogether I first read this book 9 years ago and made an underline of a sentence that still strikes me today. “Money is a country all its own.”
NYRBWomen25 Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes, not sure I’m up for this Medea story today.
August 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
NYRBWomen25 Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes, not sure I’m up for this Medea story today.
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The genius of Flaubert!
Emma's descent recalled Anna's obsessive love and her ambivalence towards her daughter, Elisa, in "Lies and Sorcery" (1948) by Elsa Morante. (Read with @joiedevivre9.bsky.social with #NYRBWomen25 )
Emma's descent recalled Anna's obsessive love and her ambivalence towards her daughter, Elisa, in "Lies and Sorcery" (1948) by Elsa Morante. (Read with @joiedevivre9.bsky.social with #NYRBWomen25 )
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The genius of Flaubert!
Emma's descent recalled Anna's obsessive love and her ambivalence towards her daughter, Elisa, in "Lies and Sorcery" (1948) by Elsa Morante. (Read with @joiedevivre9.bsky.social with #NYRBWomen25 )
Emma's descent recalled Anna's obsessive love and her ambivalence towards her daughter, Elisa, in "Lies and Sorcery" (1948) by Elsa Morante. (Read with @joiedevivre9.bsky.social with #NYRBWomen25 )
Well that got very dark! I miss the shopping and the sex. #flauberttogether
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Well that got very dark! I miss the shopping and the sex. #flauberttogether
#Prousttogether my sources (goodreads) tell me that we started reading Swann‘s Way five years ago on August 14, 2020. Happy belated anniversary @literaturesc.bsky.social et al
August 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#Prousttogether my sources (goodreads) tell me that we started reading Swann‘s Way five years ago on August 14, 2020. Happy belated anniversary @literaturesc.bsky.social et al
#NYRBWomen25 “better that she had never been brought forth into the light, that no fisherman‘s net had hold her up. And she would have gone on winding through the dark waters, unseen, unknown there in her own element, pushing ahead the darkness…feeding on the abundance of the sea…”
August 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#NYRBWomen25 “better that she had never been brought forth into the light, that no fisherman‘s net had hold her up. And she would have gone on winding through the dark waters, unseen, unknown there in her own element, pushing ahead the darkness…feeding on the abundance of the sea…”
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🐈WRITERS AND CATS 🐱
Elsa Morante and her cats!
Morante’s love for cats crept into her writings such as History: A Novel (translated by William Weaver, 1977) featuring Rossella, the striped orange and red cat!
#WITMONTH #womenintranslation #WIT 📚💙
Elsa Morante and her cats!
Morante’s love for cats crept into her writings such as History: A Novel (translated by William Weaver, 1977) featuring Rossella, the striped orange and red cat!
#WITMONTH #womenintranslation #WIT 📚💙
August 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🐈WRITERS AND CATS 🐱
Elsa Morante and her cats!
Morante’s love for cats crept into her writings such as History: A Novel (translated by William Weaver, 1977) featuring Rossella, the striped orange and red cat!
#WITMONTH #womenintranslation #WIT 📚💙
Elsa Morante and her cats!
Morante’s love for cats crept into her writings such as History: A Novel (translated by William Weaver, 1977) featuring Rossella, the striped orange and red cat!
#WITMONTH #womenintranslation #WIT 📚💙
The Wizard of Oz
The Outsiders
Napoleon Dynamite
The Outsiders
Napoleon Dynamite
today's online parlor game:
Name up to three films whose lines you endlessly quote in all sorts of contexts.
As is traditional, I'll go first:
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Love and Death
• The Sunshine Boys*
*So yes, films based on plays are fine.
Name up to three films whose lines you endlessly quote in all sorts of contexts.
As is traditional, I'll go first:
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Love and Death
• The Sunshine Boys*
*So yes, films based on plays are fine.
August 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The Wizard of Oz
The Outsiders
Napoleon Dynamite
The Outsiders
Napoleon Dynamite
Happened upon this edition today. Ready for our final instalment of #anthonypowelltogether
July 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Happened upon this edition today. Ready for our final instalment of #anthonypowelltogether
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“We can sleep together if you want, but you should know I’m only doing it ironically.
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― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
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― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
July 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“We can sleep together if you want, but you should know I’m only doing it ironically.
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― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
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― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
The preface of my edition describes the novel as, “The first sex and shopping novel.” I’m in!!! #FlaubertTogether
July 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The preface of my edition describes the novel as, “The first sex and shopping novel.” I’m in!!! #FlaubertTogether
#NYRBWomen25 “As for Lydia, she has set foot in the United States once, when a marshmallow roast had taken her a few yards inside North Dakota, some sixty years before.”
July 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
#NYRBWomen25 “As for Lydia, she has set foot in the United States once, when a marshmallow roast had taken her a few yards inside North Dakota, some sixty years before.”
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A message from the Toronto Public Library
June 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A message from the Toronto Public Library
“…depression…is nothing other than a congealed and immobile rage, a wave that strikes the shore just as the temperature plummets and halts its forward path.”
#knausgaardtogethertheseasons
P.128
#knausgaardtogethertheseasons
P.128
June 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“…depression…is nothing other than a congealed and immobile rage, a wave that strikes the shore just as the temperature plummets and halts its forward path.”
#knausgaardtogethertheseasons
P.128
#knausgaardtogethertheseasons
P.128
It's a long one, so you have my apologies! Get the episode anywhere you listen to your podcasts.
Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/teffi-rasputin
Spotify: tinyurl.com/rasputin-teffi
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Spotify: tinyurl.com/rasputin-teffi
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me by Teffi & In The Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
Podcast Episode · The Slavic Literature Pod · 06/13/2025 · 1h 50m
tinyurl.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Out Today: A new sub-series I'm called "For Your Consideration," solo episodes covering books I think are worth reading.
We're tackling creative license on your own life in Teffi's Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me -- plus Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods.
We're tackling creative license on your own life in Teffi's Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me -- plus Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods.
June 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Billionaires are so lonely and money can’t fill the void of authentic emotional and/or intellectual connection.
June 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Billionaires are so lonely and money can’t fill the void of authentic emotional and/or intellectual connection.
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the people who felt that having to wear masks and go to school online during the pandemic was fascist, have created an actual fascist state and see no problem with it
June 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
the people who felt that having to wear masks and go to school online during the pandemic was fascist, have created an actual fascist state and see no problem with it
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Driving to the gym, windows down, blasting the audiobook for Middlemarch like it’s the song of the summer.
June 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Driving to the gym, windows down, blasting the audiobook for Middlemarch like it’s the song of the summer.
#NYRBWOMEN25 “We are all hiding from each other,…”
May 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
#NYRBWOMEN25 “We are all hiding from each other,…”