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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 1d

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Never Stop Writing: Sylvia Plath’s Prose | The Hudson Review

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 2d

Books by László Krasznahorkai
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László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai (1954-) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter, born in Gyula near the border with Romania. In 2025, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his compelling and visionary oeuvr...

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 2d

The Pleasures of Reading Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Master of Doom
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The Pleasures of Reading Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Master of Doom

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for noting this. A fan of both poets, I’ll get Residence on Earth.

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 3d

“The annals of the (Roman) emperors exhibit a strong and various picture of human nature…In the conduct of those monarchs we may trace the utmost lines of vice and virtue; the most exalted perfection, and the meanest degeneracy of our own species.”

—Edward Gibbon

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 3d

How Sober Should a Writer Be?

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Sloane Crosley: “How Sober Should a Writer Be?”

Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 4d

'An unmistakable stab at the USSR': Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner ever?
#Mozart #movies
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'An unmistakable stab at the USSR': Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner ever?

Released 40 years ago this month, Miloš Forman's best picture-winning Amadeus is often accused of historical inaccuracies – but the film's critics could be missing the point.

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 4d

A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER: THE LIFE OF JAMES SCHUYLER
#poets #poetry #biography
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Hymn to a Life

A biography of poet James Schuyler – Hannah Zeavin

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 5d

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The prize committee said the Hungarian writer’s work “reaffirms the power of art.”

Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 5d

The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes – wild times with young Tennyson
#poet #poetrylovers #Biography
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The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes review – wild times with young Tennyson

A masterful account of the poet’s early life during the tumultuous early 19th century crisis of faith

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 6d

The Benefits of Buying Books You’ll Probably Never Read
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The Benefits of Buying Books You'll Probably Never Read

Confused? Get to know the Japanese philosophy of "tsundoku."

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 6d

Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante’s “Neapolitan Quartet”
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The Translator’s Voice — Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante’s “Neapolitan Quartet” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a monthly column from Ian J. Battaglia here at the Chicago Review of Books, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly t...

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 7d

How Lee Miller’s photographs captured the horror of World War Two
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'Lee Miller was the bravest person I ever knew': The pioneering photographer who captured the horror of World War Two

The unflinching gaze of the fearless US artist and war photographer bore witness to both beauty and brutality. Now she is the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Britain.

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 7d

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 7d

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

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Under a Spell Everlasting - The American Scholar

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 7d

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Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory

Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 8d

In a world of constant instability, these artists are testing the limits of endurance. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/t...

He Spent Weeks Crawling Around a Pile of Salt

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 8d

Salvador Dalí talks about his iconic, 'very aggressive' moustache
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Salvador Dalí talks about his iconic, 'very aggressive' moustache

In an exclusive BBC archive interview the Surrealist artist shared the secret behind the most famous moustache in the world.

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 8d

The Kafka Challenge: Translating the Inimitable
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The Kafka Challenge

The Kafkaesque lends itself to translation.

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 8d

In Search of Gertrude Stein:
The life and lasting influence of an American expat
#literature #books #biography

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In Search of Lost Stein

The life and lasting influence of an American expat – Ryan Ruby

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 9d

Richard Holmes, biographer of England’s great poets, reveals the secrets of inhabiting his subjects’ lives. #biography #poetrycommunity #poets www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

How Richard Holmes humanised Tennyson

The biographer of England’s great poets reveals the secrets of inhabiting his subjects’ lives

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 11d

Goethe: A Life in Ideas

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Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light

Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 12d

Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography
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Digesting Dante

Dante invented not only the epic in his vernacular but also a new reading public for it.

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 13d

The Gonzo Foundation is a non-profit organization created to promote literature, journalism and political activism through the legacy of Hunter S. Thompson.

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Home - The Gonzo Foundation

Home - The Gonzo Foundation is a non-profit organization created to promote literature, journalism and political activism through the legacy of H. Thompson.

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Paul Ehrlich @paulehrlich.bsky.social · 14d

“There is a nameless mood abroad in the world today, a feeling in the blood of more than a few people, an expectation of worse things to come, a readiness to riot, a mistrust of everything one reveres.” ― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities