This 23 March 2026 podcast
owns the "one-off on TSH" podium
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Solid content & engaging rhythm
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The Secret History / Donna Tartt
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Lotte Houwink ten Cate age 35
looks back twelve years
on "distant" immersive reading of
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
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Three so's say so-so
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Brian Vales
@brian-vales.bsky.social
who teaches English at
Lycée Condorcet Paris 9e
will not be joining
the cult of Donna Tartt
Is Lili Anolik emulating
Donna Tartt's protracting
immersion in her fourth novel
by foot-dragging
on that third & final crack
at the Bennington saga?
"My desire has to come back"
Deal w Scribners notwithstanding
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Statistic:
Out of about 102,000 words in
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
7 = "vibe(s)" / 1 = "algorithm"
Not-quoted-per-se status = 4 instances of vibe
The 1 instance of "algorithm" happens to quote Tartt
Fancy that one … @penny.hailey.at
When @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social goes
insane w Claude Code to hack out
a slice-and-dice on the lit establishment –
sinykin.substack.com/p/power-rank...
– Donna Tartt unsurprisingly does not make
it onto his "weird" list of the Power FiftyOne
( obvs how a Maecenas obviates the NEA )
One of those scarcer entries for
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered and Described
where writing up the description
felt more like joy than job
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The Secret History / Donna Tartt as
« a narrative that is less concerned with what happens
than with how longing transforms perception »
Last week from
Sarah Maria Lillig
this 1254-word essay
sarahmarialillig.substack.com/p/looking-be...
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«The Secret History» by Donna Tartt (1992)
is the origin … of this book …
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Happy P-Day to Classicist Sophie Mills
2 February 2026
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Puzzle: Can you spot the textual error in
the Seducers paragraph? Hint: metathesis
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Donna Tartt
hot-pink blurbed for
Edward St. Aubyn
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… I Want to Burn this Place Down …
Maybe that resonant title
activated the author-bot because
Tartt once posed « Tribulation »
as a title possibility
for The Little Friend (2002) ?
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Tribulation being
the burned-down Mississippi Tara
that housed the Cleve family
back when
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
resonates with
The Secret History / Donna Tartt (1992)
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
resonates with
The Secret History / Donna Tartt (1992)
• Whydunnit
• Two murders
• Oblique incest
[ More details in following reply-skeet ]
www.imdb.com/title/tt0450...
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✣✣✣ in 2025 ✢✣✣
Ruan Felipe Madela Lima
orcid.org/0009-0008-63...
published two unusually useful
academic articles about
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
Bunny the antagonist
turns into protagonist
because Richard is so not there
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The Secret History / Donna Tartt
since Sarah Purnell intuits
sunset for Dark Academia
I'll keep an eye peeled
for scarier waning glimmers
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thedarkacademicalsbookclub.substack.com/p/is-dark-ac...
... and I'll be interested in your thesis ...
To show format, sample entry below –
a fairly early thesis, easily found,
subsequently cited by other writers
"often"
No basis for saying that
according to my findings
Ultraviolet seems to own the spectrum
for covers of books about
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
(and English not the language)
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The section for "theses"
(ranging from college course essay to PhD)
in Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
right now lists 80-90 items
Many (most?) of them are not in English
You have lots of company
Quite a few are MAs
The newest one that I know of
Il Foglio skeeted it on 15 Sept 2025
citation
First thought about your topic was
Tartt leans more to Victorian than to Romantic?
... Stevenson, Wilde, Rimbaud ...
Then this happened to show up today
(with a monster paywall)
Searching for sources is hard work
and "the internet" so often
buries what you look for
very deep indeed
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Calluses on the fingertips 🖐️
I'm not aware of any published translation into English.
Even so, I have just finished reading the entire book.
(German is the closest I come to Swedish.)
Quite attractive as a physical volume.
Longish entry just written for the forthcoming
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
Experiment:
Use Gemini as an AI bibliographical assistant
Testbed Question:
Find the 2025 essays about Donna Tartt
Conclusion:
Gemini is a tiny clod of sod for a patient plower to bust
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... unwrapped & rapt ...
Christmas Day 2025
this year Sweden published a book about
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
👍 Moa Ekbom 👍 @quosego.bsky.social 👍
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Donna Tartt talks to Antonio Monda
www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2025...
Immer unwahrscheinlicher, weil sie nur über das Erwachsenwerden schreiben kann?
Your DNF
My for sure never reread
These July & September skeets
from @lizthegringa.bsky.social
map a corner of Tarttlandia
more usefully than
so many of the earnest essays
... Donna Tartt ...
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