21 years between.
21 years between.
Related podcast episode: klassiki.online/ester-krumba...
Pre-sunrise Ester Krumbachovรก rabbit hole - esterkrumbachova.org. If ever someone deserved an oversized deluxe retrospective artbook. Make it happen, Rizzoli.
Slack-visioned in the limbo of an empty waiting room, a gauzy taking in of the misnomered escarpment through pitted window, all the while eavesdropping on office-murmured methodologies for eschewing jury duty, as the morning, derelict and idle, maintains its imperceptible grace.
Mix of old and new for my virtual book club over the next six months. Huxley. Hiraide. Austen. Chambers. Sinclair. Ondaatje.
Halfway through Huxleyโs โIslandโ and I swear, if the paperthin structure of the plot remains โconvalescing and philosophizingโโฆ
Had to snag a copy of this one internationally, but looking forward to Blue Pieta and Bhanu Kapilโs โAutobiography of a Performanceโ being in my shortlist rotation now.
Pre-orders: Valeria Luiselliโs โBeginning Middle Endโ and Grace Krilanovichโs โAcid Green Velvetโ.
I find myself in Charleston for a weekend, following 20+ years since the last visit. Of course there will be a bookstore pilgrimage - Buxton Books. And now I find myself in American Gardens with books by Anne de Marcken and Claire Bateman.
I fly so little these days I forget the perspective it can give you.
Brain still abuzz from many of the #CNIfall25 presentations last week. Digesting, mulling, pondering, and so forth.
Cc: @cni-org.bsky.social
Next up for my old friends/new friends virtual book club - S.J. Perelmanโs short story collection โCrazy Like a Foxโ.
Via Elena M. Sarni's "Trailblazing Women Printmakers" -
Oskar Schlemmer's Das Triadische Ballett:
Next up for my old friends/new friends virtual book club - Fatemeh Jamalpourโs โFor the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprisingโ.
I would like nothing more today than to skip work to stay home and read Todd Longstaffe-Gowanโs โEnglish Garden Eccentricsโ - yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781913...
I've lived long enough that small press books I bought decades ago are being reissued as classics under new small press publishers.
Image from โPearls of the Deepโ (1966), a Czechoslovak anthology film based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal.
Saturday Night Mood. #niecyblues #vinyl
The Onyx Boox Palma 2 (a mouthful if ever one) eInkReader has aided in liberating me from the Kindle ecosystem.
Wind blowing through an empty baby bouncer chair abandoned in the grass off the interstate isโฆ something.
Gillian Welch in the morning for what ails you.
Must it sound so eerie.
Among all the imaginary literature courses I daydream of teaching, one of them has always been a class of nothing but memoirs from the children of famous authors.
If ever Iโm going to want a hardback collected works of, itโll be Annie Ernaux.
Night.
New-to-read for my work stack - Julia Alekseyevaโs โAntifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960sโ.
Tonightโs rabbit hole: Diane Luckey AKA Q Lazzarus AKA singer of โGoodbye Horsesโ from THAT scene in The Silence of the Lambs, having a documentary made about her by Eva Aridjis and a compilation album released, a few years after she died in 2022.
#NowWatching - a documentary on Tanaquil Le Clerq.
Whatever became of Small Press Distribution shutting down and screwing everyone over and all their remaining inventory stock just sitting there?
Kickstarter rewards for the Farscape campaign arrived today. Probably the one show Iโve rewatched more than any other.