I put on my writer hat for the first time in years just to review @mkblyth.bsky.social on inflation for @thenation.com
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02.12.2025 17:57
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I put on my writer hat for the first time in years just to review @mkblyth.bsky.social on inflation for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Holding out for this sweatshirt I saw once but have never found for sale - homemade?
The full set of academic hand gestures is archived here. #bouncingonimaginaryhandtrampolines
Civilization will collapse and there will still be the Venmo feed of transactions by random old contacts with their settings on public
Latest addition to the collection of crime writing read by Walter Benjamin:
- Gaston Leroux, Perfume of the Lady in Black
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
The only thing that worked for me when I had lost the habit was scheduling reading time the way you would exercise or music practice. An hour a day is not hard and can be totally life changing. Try some in the morning - bedtime actually isn’t great because your mind can be too tired.
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“And IHOP, originally, was always in an A-frame building, which is seen as Scandinavian. And they had flags. Scandinavian flags on strings, banners hanging on the front of the restaurants …” Never even occurred to me to wonder why they call it IHOP!
“In America, we only have maple syrup, or fake maple syrup, like Aunt Jemima, who’s another racist mascot. But according to IHOP, in Sweden, where they were pretending they were from, there was, you know, boysenberry syrup. There was lingonberry syrup or something like that.”
“The story of IHOP was all about internationalism, but not the generic kind. it was like IKEA—Scandinavian. It was the International House of Pancakes, and it was international because, you know, there were various syrups of the world there.”
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Rec’d for the Walter Benjamin memorial library of crime fiction Döblin’s Two Women and a Poisoning, book #962 on Benjamin’s list of reading - right before he read The Magic Mountain for the first time, so c. February 1925.
OK! OK! Nobody panic! Or better yet, EVERYBODY PANIC so at least we're all on the same page. Your Name Here has a publisher: @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Your Name Here has a release date. (September 23) Your Name Here has a cover! Now all Your Name Here needs is your preorder!
Two more ordered for the Walter Benjamin commemorative crime writing collection:
- Alfred Döblin, Two Women and a Poisoning (Text Books, 2021)
- Hans Aufricht-Ruda, The Case for the Defendant (Little, Brown, 1929)
He kept a (mostly) complete list of all the books he read - someone put it online here prixwb.hypotheses.org/6503
Wow. Impressive! Fortunately for me there are not so many Maigrets before 1940 when WB died - but he did also read a few of the other Simenons - the last on his list is The Strangers in the House.
Two of many by Simenon …
Sven Elvestad, The Case of Robert Robertson (Knopf, 1930)
Maurice Leblanc, The Exploits of Arsène Lupin (Harper, 1907). Pretty rough shape but holding it together.
Sigurd Christiansen, Two Living and One Dead (Liveright, 1932) - looks like more of a crime thriller than a detective novel as such
Emmanuel Bove, The Murder of Suzy Pommier (Little, Brown 1934)
My new hobby is to collect every detective novel read by Walter Benjamin - in English translation if there is one. Some are pretty obscure …
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My book is alive! Just in time for the revolution, as I expected it would be when I began my research [gulp] ten years ago.
(Ah, where Boas was born in 1858.)
I had always assumed that it must be some exotic locale but the building is clearly this cathedral in Minden, Germany.
Then I found this guy on here ALSO posted a Boas book! bsky.app/profile/harv...