Gerald Howard
@ghoward1950.bsky.social
Retired book editor, terminal bookworm, soon to be first-time author with THE INSIDER: MALCOLM COWLEY AND THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. I like movies too.
And what, after all, is better than "Waterloo Sunset" or "Twentieth Century Man"?
November 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
And what, after all, is better than "Waterloo Sunset" or "Twentieth Century Man"?
Sorry, I can't watch this. I'd end up rolled up in a ball on the floor from longing.
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Sorry, I can't watch this. I'd end up rolled up in a ball on the floor from longing.
And how about those endnotes, huh? Wasn't that a blast?
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
And how about those endnotes, huh? Wasn't that a blast?
I share your grief. TRAVESTIES was life changing for me as well. And I'm not gilding the lily, it really was.
November 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I share your grief. TRAVESTIES was life changing for me as well. And I'm not gilding the lily, it really was.
If I could have a brain transplant from anyone else on earth, I'd choose Tom Stoppard's, and no one else even comes in a close second.
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If I could have a brain transplant from anyone else on earth, I'd choose Tom Stoppard's, and no one else even comes in a close second.
What are you reading?
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
What are you reading?
If you find yourself on Cape Cod, do drop by the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouthport. Pretty interesting.
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If you find yourself on Cape Cod, do drop by the Edward Gorey House in Yarmouthport. Pretty interesting.
I've done something like this twice, and both times had to go to urgent care to get "stitched up." Ouch!
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I've done something like this twice, and both times had to go to urgent care to get "stitched up." Ouch!
Iwona shoot myself.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Iwona shoot myself.
As someone who just wrote one: I used to think this, but the as-the-twig-is-bent principle leads me to respectfully disagree. The genealogy stuff, though, YAWN.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As someone who just wrote one: I used to think this, but the as-the-twig-is-bent principle leads me to respectfully disagree. The genealogy stuff, though, YAWN.
As for a man of five and seventy -- that would be me -- fuggedaboudit.
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
As for a man of five and seventy -- that would be me -- fuggedaboudit.