Of Human Bondage and the Pain We Mistake for Love Deep-dive cultural criticism, film reviews, and culinary history. Exploring the meaning behind the noise.

New on the blog: Of Human Bondage and the pain people mistake for love. Maugham understood attachment, self-deception, and the ways people keep returning to what harms them. tinyurl.com/4k5bhcb5
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#MonAmour #LoveOfMyLife #Maugham #SomersetMaughamSReader

#WSMaugham #Maugham #1949 #GrahamSutherland

Fall in Green Formed in 2017 by Mark Sheeky & Deborah Edgeley, Fall in Green perform contemporary spoken-word poetry combined with music in an act that is everything from art performance, to classical lieder, to pr...

Happy Square Spoon Day! After months of work our latest album 'Letters From A Square Spoon' is out today. Available to stream on all major platforms, but most importantly to buy on CD from fallingreen.bandcamp.com
#music #poetry #newmusicfriday #squarespoon #Tolstoy #Steiner #Maugham #Wiene

This is my current “reading outside the house book.”
I read it and a lot more Maugham in my early 20’s.

My “inside” book is Paul Auster’s 4321. Only about 150 out of 900+ pages to go.

What are you reading?

#BookSky #Maugham

"The ability to #quote is a serviceable substitute for #wit." - Somerset #Maugham

I love rereading picture books that I loved as a kid, but have not had a desire to reread adult fiction until recently. I've been craving some short stories by Somerset Maugham in a really big way so have finally put some books on hold. I devoured Maugham as a teen. #fiction #shortstories #maugham