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Sometimes I think only jazz could save us...if people listened and truly felt and understood. Not just Coltrane. There are so many geniuses with rare hearts expressed miraculously. But so few have listened to jazz, that great American artform. It's the little section over there

How much of our lives are misreadings of Freud? How much of our lives are our failures to read Freud because we misread ourselves?

One book to read? Gordon Lish, Annals and Indices. Publishes June 26, 2024. Available at: asterismbooks.com/publisher/bard… Or you could not read it and leave a big whole in your summer/life. Not saying The Iliad, Pride and Prejudice, Ulysses, etc. because you've read those.

Leave it to Gordon Lish to publish a book he considers worth publishing.

Dislike is taste on the way to being defined. Not that definition is possible But puffery is...puffery

This guy was the father of his own sound. Thelonious Monk. And what a name.

This photo of James Joyce and Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company is Bloomsday beautiful.

Not a coincidence that Schopenhauer was a great philosopher on the damage of anger?

Umberto Eco was a deeply learned man who humbly studied the art of learning--and he loved to laugh.

Wow. 1000+ people liked this tweet saying that this brilliant tome by Jacques Barzun is an incredible book. Gotta love X/Twitter sometimes.

Good to see that 2,000 people care about this list of books on culture.

Van Gogh was a visual artist who could think. If one can think, one can write. But not all who write can think.

"We must learn to what extent our thoughts are consistent with our lives, and to what extent compensatory; to what extent ideals are a guide to behaviour, and to what extent they are behaviour itself. We would not deny the mind; but merely remember that as the corrective of wrong

Sounds good. How many pages is it?

Lauren Bacall in Key Largo. OMG. 180 degrees from the Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not. That's acting folks.

That 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice is a landmark, full of moments. Watch it, and again.

My new book will give yet more reason to understand that Shakespeare was Shakespeare and the man who wrote the plays. All writers have influence, including but Shakespeare was the marvel he was. Stay tuned. x.com/marcberley/sta…

"The imagination is the name we give to the mind when it is prepared, if feeling requires it, to see everything change except itself." - Denis Donoghue