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Jay Innis Murray

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Got a dictionary and some sharpened pencils and other things like that. Book reviews and sometimes essays on my website. www.thevisionarycompany.net

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Self-Portrait in several convex mirrors.

17.01.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Impossible to Say: A Review of Glantz (2025) by Tobias Ryan By Jay Innis Murray As I think about works that are similar to Glantz, the troublingly great novella by Tobias Ryan, some novels by Saramago come to mind, but the itch I cannot scratch away is the …

"The novella is lifelike and strange. Ryan creates a wonderfully claustrophobic atmosphere [...] The assurances of a conventional novel are tossed aside ..."

Impossible to Say:A Review of Glantz β€” @jayinnismurray.bsky.social

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17.01.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter crashes every day now.

16.01.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Impossible to Say: A Review of Glantz (2025) by Tobias Ryan By Jay Innis Murray As I think about works that are similar to Glantz, the troublingly great novella by Tobias Ryan, some novels by Saramago come to mind, but the itch I cannot scratch away is the …

Impossible to Say: A Review of Glantz (2025) β€” @jayinnismurray.bsky.social

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16.01.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey. Finally remembered my log-in.

06.09.2025 23:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

o andor adorno

24.05.2025 11:05 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Upper West Side Philosophers, Incorporated

22.05.2025 10:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not good. Similar here.

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Happy 100th to Mrs. Dalloway.

14.05.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m really sorry.

06.05.2025 22:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Review of On the Calculation of Volume 1 (2024) by Solvej Balle By Jay Innis Murray New Directions has cleverly chosen November 18 for the publication date of Book 3 of On the Calculation of Volume. Anyone who has read Book 1 can tell you November 18 is the day…

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24.04.2025 11:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dale Cooper looks like he smells incredible

21.03.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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550th bday for Michelangelo.
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06.03.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Ever read A Pale View of Hills?

20.02.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you have a podcast I missed?

08.02.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Holy shit. This is the real thing.

08.02.2025 14:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I had fun with that book. Glad you liked it.

07.02.2025 23:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Musil contra Mann A particularly nasty dig from Musil's notebooks

Musil Contra Mann: Just a taster for my longer analysis of the complex relationship between these two men (coming soon):
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07.02.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Secret Engine of the World: A Review of The Fraud (2023) by Zadie Smith By Jay Innis Murray … whilst coiled behind all gazes the great Worm of Slavery. β€” Pynchon, Mason & Dixon The curious reader need not wonder why Zadie Smith wrote a historical novel for her sixt…

Charles Dickens was born on this day in 1812. There’s a fascinating mini portrait of him in Zadie Smith’s novel The Fraud.

07.02.2025 11:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing!

24.01.2025 15:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yesterday I heard someone say β€œdecisioned.”

23.01.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine was printed without it somehow.

23.01.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Does your edition have the Ford introduction the cover claims it has?

22.01.2025 17:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

R&G Are Dead, too.

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Huge if true.

19.12.2024 10:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Review of Let the Boys Play (2024) by Nicholas John Turner By Jay Innis Murray β€œFirm ground is not available ground.” – – – AR Ammons, β€œDunes” Here is a book that does not flinch. Here is a book about suffering. This is my novel of the ye…

I wrote a review of Let the Boys Play (2024) by Nicholas John Turner. Great book. My novel of the year for this year.

13.12.2024 02:34 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kafka’s sisters.

12.12.2024 15:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The whale one.

12.12.2024 12:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Gay Science, section 276.

11.12.2024 23:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –

(Happy birthday to Emily Dickinson)

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