Couldn’t help but think of visual parallels between the ending of 400 Blows and the ending of Palestine ‘36.

21 years between.

Ester Krumbachová: the ghost of the Czech New Wave Writer Rachel Pronger discusses the polymath career of this vital but elusive figure of the Czech New Wave.

Related podcast episode: klassiki.online/ester-krumba...

Pre-sunrise Ester Krumbachová 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 Huxley’s “Island” and I swear, if the paperthin structure of the plot remains “convalescing and philosophizing”…

Had to snag a copy of this one internationally, but looking forward to Blue Pieta and Bhanu Kapil’s “Autobiography of a Performance” being in my shortlist rotation now.

Pre-orders: Valeria Luiselli’s “Beginning Middle End” and Grace Krilanovich’s “Acid Green Velvet”.

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. Perelman’s short story collection “Crazy Like a Fox”.

Via Elena M. Sarni's "Trailblazing Women Printmakers" -

Triadisches Ballett von Oskar Schlemmer - Bauhaus (Best Quality) YouTube video by Aitor Merino Martínez

Oskar Schlemmer's Das Triadische Ballett:

Next up for my old friends/new friends virtual book club - Fatemeh Jamalpour’s “For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising”.

English Garden Eccentrics A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens   In English Garden Eccentrics, renowned landscape architect and ...

I would like nothing more today than to skip work to stay home and read Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s “English Garden Eccentrics” - 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 “Pearls of the Deep” (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 is… something.

Gillian Welch in the morning for what ails you.

Must it sound so eerie.

Baby Driver he first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack—a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father...

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 I’m going to want a hardback collected works of, it’ll be Annie Ernaux.

Night.

New-to-read for my work stack - Julia Alekseyeva’s “Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s”.

Teaser for the documentary Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus YouTube video by evasophia

Tonight’s rabbit hole: Diane Luckey AKA Q Lazzarus AKA singer of “Goodbye Horses” 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?