This is a loss. Michael used to call me out of the blue, and I picked up every time because I knew it would be the most engaging hour of my workday.
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What a legend: Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
Like @joe-hill.bsky.social, I remember watching 'Salem's Lot on TV when I was a kid. Of course, I wasn't watching from @stephenking.bsky.social's living room. Via @nytimes.com, here's Joe on his dad's classic, which turns 50 next month. @ireadvintage.bsky.social
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James Baldwin didn’t believe in reform; he believed in revolution. “Anything less than a total social reckoning—a complete psychological makeover of white America—was worthless,” Louis Menand writes.
"If your library has a dedicated space for Tolstoy, there should be room for Resurrection, which contains some of the most powerful scenes he ever wrote..."
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John Haskell has been one of my favorite writers for a couple decades now. New book out this fall, a "slim but potent volume...An unconventional and quietly eloquent rumination on what it means to live well." via @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/9781573662147
My son’s reading Animal Farm. He just got to the part where Boxer is taken to “the doctor.” I know this because I heard him exclaim, 2 rooms away, “This is BULLshit!!!”
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It's raining. Again.
“Minden was genuinely convinced that a paperback in the right hands could help crack the cement of totalitarian thinking…”
Winning the Cold War With le Carré and Cosmopolitan Magazine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
Jonathan Lethem on James Salter via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "When someone is such a perfectionist and his prose is so exquisite, there are no bad books. But I think LIGHT YEARS is the one that bears the most rereading and the most contemplation..."
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Exactly.
James Salter's LIGHT YEARS turns 50 next month (which would also have been Salter's 100th birthday) and we have a repackage coming from @ireadvintage.bsky.social that is too beautiful for words.
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Rocket Man is great and all, but recently I've been on a late 70s / early 80s Elton John kick. Enjoy (thread):
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Publishers are joining in the fight against book banning. The CEO of Macmillan, Jon Yaged, says, “The battlefront is really everywhere there's a school, everywhere there's a library, every community. Someone's got to say something, & the publishers are starting to say something.” #Velshi
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
