“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”
There was a lovely Faber compilation once
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
There was a lovely Faber compilation once
Post a perfect album from 1989
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989
“Maria lit candles in silver-branched candlesticks. They were old candles, and had burned unevenly, so that the flames quivered in the air on either side of their silver stems; like someone balancing with outstretched arms on a rope.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Maria lit candles in silver-branched candlesticks. They were old candles, and had burned unevenly, so that the flames quivered in the air on either side of their silver stems; like someone balancing with outstretched arms on a rope.”
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Trollope is very sound on churches imo —
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
September 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Trollope is very sound on churches imo —
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
Happy memory time:
Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK
Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK
September 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Happy memory time:
Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK
Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK
“hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations”
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations”
Saturday morning music
Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king
Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king
August 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Saturday morning music
Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king
Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king
Eric Hynes on a character in Errol Morris’s Gates of Heaven
“doltish sublimity” FTW
“doltish sublimity” FTW
August 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Eric Hynes on a character in Errol Morris’s Gates of Heaven
“doltish sublimity” FTW
“doltish sublimity” FTW
“like little black anchors dropped”
August 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
“like little black anchors dropped”
Also from the NMWA today, the Guerrilla Girls in 1992. Same as it ever was.
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Also from the NMWA today, the Guerrilla Girls in 1992. Same as it ever was.
“The Palmist” by Leonora Carrington, for me one of the highlights today of the “Uncanny” exhibit at NMWA. Many thanks to @nonsuchbook.bsky.social for reminding me that the exhibition ends this weekend!
August 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“The Palmist” by Leonora Carrington, for me one of the highlights today of the “Uncanny” exhibit at NMWA. Many thanks to @nonsuchbook.bsky.social for reminding me that the exhibition ends this weekend!
Off Pennsylvania Avenue —DC authors
August 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Off Pennsylvania Avenue —DC authors
What an amazing book this is
July 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What an amazing book this is
A periodic rewatch of this last night in order to restore my faith in, well, everything…
June 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
A periodic rewatch of this last night in order to restore my faith in, well, everything…
What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
June 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
here we go
ngl not going outside this week
ngl not going outside this week
June 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
here we go
ngl not going outside this week
ngl not going outside this week
What a book to find in the wild today. And what a blurb.
June 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What a book to find in the wild today. And what a blurb.
Now playing, because every day is Fred Hopkins Appreciation Day.
But truly all three are awesome here
But truly all three are awesome here
June 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Now playing, because every day is Fred Hopkins Appreciation Day.
But truly all three are awesome here
But truly all three are awesome here
I always thought this was a modern expression, but here is Henry James using it in 1881.
May 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I always thought this was a modern expression, but here is Henry James using it in 1881.
Yes, she was. This is from Nicola Beauman’s book:
May 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Yes, she was. This is from Nicola Beauman’s book:
