"The internet is akin to a global prosthesis, allowing access to vast reserves of knowledge and near-perfect planetary communication. But it is also ruining us." Joshua Judd Porter (Joshua Judd Porter) reviews "The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-in…

Any (Robert) Graves heads out there? 👀

honored

Love seeing pairs of girlies at the ballet in their respective all-black and all-white outfits. You get it, girls. One of you is the black swan, one of you is the white. Yes.

Hurricane Fiona battered Atlantic Canada yesterday, including Nova Scotia. A friend of mine, Sandra Barry, just shared this photo of Great Village, immortalised in Elizabeth Bishop’s “In the Village.”

This summer I read all of Gwendoline Riley, a delightful and strange experience that felt like reading one book over and over again. Thank you to Los Angeles Review of Books for letting me write and to Books at NYRB for putting out Riley's two latest.

Brillat-Savarin wrote (in MFK Fisher's translation), "Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are" Adrian is, as always, funny and sweet and thoughtful

Birman Wood—now that’s a book!

A lovely photo of Marguerite Duras (pronounced Duhr-Ass, for all you Francophiles) in this weeks NYTBR. She doesn’t look a day over 30!

incredible deal!

More than anything, I'd like "Morris"

❤️ Harper’s ads ❤️

Golden age of criticism… Can’t wait for everyone to read!

Chuffed to see Elizabeth Bishop's Postcards in today's The TLS Vassar College the-tls.co.uk/articles/indir…

“Elizabeth Bishop delighted in the postcard. It suited her poetic subject matter and her way of life—this poet of travel who was more often on the move than at home.” Langdon Hammer on Elizabeth Bishop’s postcards. theparisreview.org/blog/2023/11/2…