Self-Portrait in several convex mirrors.

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 ..."

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Twitter crashes every day now.

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) — @jayinnismurray.bsky.social

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Hey. Finally remembered my log-in.

o andor adorno

Upper West Side Philosophers, Incorporated

Not good. Similar here.

Happy 100th to Mrs. Dalloway.

I’m really sorry.

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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Dale Cooper looks like he smells incredible

550th bday for Michelangelo.
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Ever read A Pale View of Hills?

Do you have a podcast I missed?

Holy shit. This is the real thing.

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

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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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. — 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.

Amazing!

Yesterday I heard someone say “decisioned.”

Mine was printed without it somehow.

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

R&G Are Dead, too.

Huge if true.

A Review of Let the Boys Play (2024) by Nicholas John Turner By Jay Innis Murray “Firm ground is not available ground.” – – – AR Ammons, “Dunes” 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.

Kafka’s sisters.

The whale one.

The Gay Science, section 276.

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

(Happy birthday to Emily Dickinson)