i also enjoyed a lot of dudely literature, but it turns out don delillo isn't on bluesky??? so i can't tag him medium.com/@vincennes/v...
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my book of the year was @charlottemendelson.bsky.social 's WIFE, i love "a sense of gathering darkness and misery" vincennes.medium.com/vincennes-re...
ARE YOU A FAN OF LISTS. if so, you might be a fan of this list of the books i read in 2025: vincennes.medium.com/vincennes-bi...
i was in the old ticket office this very evening! livid i missed you
Original dust jacket of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published 100 years ago today
Happy Gatsby day to those who celebrate! Remarkably relevant for 100 years and counting
i would be quite keen to read a literature of context collapse where I understood maybe half of what’s going on
and it doesn’t have to be like that – technology now has some really fun affordances for a writer to play with!
(actual example from the book there, obviously)
i think it’s her attempt at future proofing, although “looked at the social media website on her tablet” will be as nonsensical as “looked at facebook on her ipad” so why not SAY THE THING YOU MEAN
@fizzles.bsky.social reading the new sally rooney and thinking, as i often do, of the capital thread
Alex Mitchell and I are delighted to have Michelle E. Moore’s review essay on our edition, The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921-1924 and David Earle’s excellent, Where All Good Flappers Go, included in this volume too! @vincennes.bsky.social
so does tabular, while we’re on the topic
spatula rhymes with petula
out to my LIST FANS
i made a list too: Vincennes Big List of Books 2024 vincennes.medium.com/vincennes-bi...
i prepared the way by making sure we watched “rivals” before Christmas
Should we do a little kiwi, have a little lime?
tbh the sea, the sea is also a great shout
broadly:
under the net to the time of the angels (inclusive): early, uneven
the nice and the good to the sea, the sea: high imperial phase, all killer
nuns and soldiers to jackson’s dilemma: late, heightened risk of bagginess
here is my review of 2023 reading! vincennes.medium.com/vincennes-re...
the bell is one of my all-time favourites, would love to know what you think of it!