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Eric Passaglia
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marchand de nuages
“…no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
There was a lovely Faber compilation once
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 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.”
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Joe E. Brown?
October 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Trollope is very sound on churches imo —
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)
September 23, 2025 at 12:43 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
September 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations”
September 9, 2025 at 4:14 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
August 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Old OUPs FTW
August 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Eric Hynes on a character in Errol Morris’s Gates of Heaven

“doltish sublimity” FTW
August 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“like little black anchors dropped”
August 8, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Also from the NMWA today, the Guerrilla Girls in 1992. Same as it ever was.
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 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!
August 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Off Pennsylvania Avenue —DC authors
August 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
What an amazing book this is
July 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A periodic rewatch of this last night in order to restore my faith in, well, everything…
June 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
June 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
here we go

ngl not going outside this week
June 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What a book to find in the wild today. And what a blurb.
June 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Now playing, because every day is Fred Hopkins Appreciation Day.

But truly all three are awesome here
June 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I always thought this was a modern expression, but here is Henry James using it in 1881.
May 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Yes, she was. This is from Nicola Beauman’s book:
May 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
May 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM