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true-antagonist · 3 years
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SUNDAY BOOK RECOMMENDATION 🥃 “I’m asking you, Esther, take a good look at all these mad people. For they are mad. And consider the subtle thread that brings them all together here. Not so subtle as that either, Esther, since their personalities are so deeply rooted in it. What an odd force to unite so many varied personalities! Something they all want....and when they’ve had it, their reactions will be different. Some will feel themselves defiled. Others will want another try at it. Others will feel that they haven’t found what they were looking for and will be back here tomorrow night.” 🥃 John Horne Burns’ story is one of those famous ruined-talent stories but, thankfully, before all that misery he wrote The Gallery. This book is my favorite WWII era novel and just one of my TOP FIVE books I’ve ever read. I finished this book two years ago on Christmas Eve and I have no idea why because this book is pitch dark but wonderfully rendered work that captures the muddled feelings of rage, cynicism and desperation of soldiers and civilians alike. I think I’ve been thinking of this book recently because I’m slowly working my way through my current WWII read (check the current read highlight) or maybe because it was Veterans Day earlier this week. Probably more the former because this book is brilliant but completely unpatriotic. Which is fine because war is terrible in every way for everyone involved and more people should remember that. 🥃 : #johnhorneburns #thegallery #wwiifiction #newyorkreviewofbooks #veternsday #remberanceday #🥀 #darkacademia #richardpapen #classiclit #classicliterature #literary #literarycommunity #bookstagram #lightacademia #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram #blackwritersofinstagram #weirdblackgirl #protectweirdblackgirlsatallcosts #deadauthors #romanticacademia #biblophile #gothicacademia #asecondofwhimsy #romanticism #booksbooksbooks #fallvibes #deadpoetssociety (at Galleria Umberto I) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHoQ70_hb77/?igshid=mvp2ioaiqwa
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magpiebookshop · 6 years
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Back issues of the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books are free for the taking! #londonreviewofbooks #newyorkreviewofbooks #bookshop #readallthebooks (at Magpie Bookshop)
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mikemcgregor · 7 years
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After today's news cycle I needed to revisit someone who truly inspired me by their brilliance. Robert Silver was ridiculous. He edited a 10K word piece by memory in the middle of our shoot; without breaking eye contact he told his second assistant that the second sentence in the 8th paragraph needed a new verb. By memory at 87. #genius #newyorkreviewofbooks #robertsilver #original
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lawrence-art · 5 years
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Art Talk - July 2019
“Now You See Me, Now You Don’t.”
Tallman, Susan
The New York Review of Books
July 18, 2019, p15-16
The Self-Portrait: From Schiele to Beckmann
An exhibition at the Neue Galerie
Feb. 28 – June 24, 2019
New York City
The subject of this article, the self-portrait, is a subject that immediately got my attention.  I missed the exhibition at the Neue Galerie. However; the most interesting part of Ms. Tallman’s article was not her description of the individual paintings, but her explanation of the background behind the genre of self-portraiture in Germany between the wars.
Ms. Tallman warns against the assumption that the self-portrait is a true reflection of the life of the artist who created it.  Tobias Natter, the curator of the exhibition, writes that “Schiele’s disturbing poses do not at all coincide with the way he was described by his contemporaries…he appears to have struck them as calm, relaxed, and agreeable.”
According to Tallman, “For all its romantic appeal, the idea of the self-portrait as kind of X-ray of the soul suggests a certain naivete about what artists actually do.  A painting of drawing is not a snapshot – it doesn’t capture a single moment, either interior or exterior.  It is a construction, strategized and artificial, that may dissemble or disclose.”  
Towards the close of her article, Tallman writes “self-portraits can serve myriad purposes.”  For artists, what may be the most basic need is the need “to leave a record of one’s existence:  I made this.  I was here.”
#newyorkreviewofbooks, #self-portrait, #NeueGalerie, #arthistory, #lawrence-studio
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true-antagonist · 3 years
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BOOK RECOMMENDATION SUNDAY! Picking some titles that I have finished but have stuck with me. ♊️ “What was it it? Say. Tell me. No, you won’t- you never do, have, will. It wasn’t fair. They had come from the same cell, had lived nine months curled around one another. They should have already learned each other’s secrets. And he had given his up, all of them. Is that the way it was supposed to be with twins? Gemini, Castor and Pollux? I already told you all my secrets-all of them. But you keep yours, you hide them. Miserly, sly, secretive Holland, angry half the time, indifferent the rest; twins are supposed to be together, aren’t they? Aren’t they?” ♊️ Thomas Tryon (1926-1991) originally pursued acting but turned to writing after suffering legendary cruelty at the hands of Otto Preminger (for more about Preminger’s famous mistreatment of actors listen to the podcast “ You Must Remember This “ particularly the ones focused on Jean Sebring). This an subtly eerie and shape-shifting novel that is perfect reading for October. And yet, it is more then just a psychological thriller set around twins. It’s also a meditation (really a lament) about childhood, lost innocence, regret, pain and memory. I’ll say no more as it’s good to know almost nothing about this book before you get to the twist ending. Happy reading, y’all! ♊️ : #booksrecommendation #spookyreads #october #theother #thomastryon #newyorkreviewofbooks #classiclit #classicliterature #literary #literarycommunity #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram #🥀 #blackwritersofinstagram #weirdblackgirl #protectweirdblackgirlsatallcost #deadauthors #biblophile #asecondofwhimsy #romanticism #BooksBooksBooks #fallvibes #spookyseason #halloween2020 #🎃 (at Hartford, CT) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGN63CmFtrf/?igshid=mykg1g3xjxht
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mikemcgregor · 7 years
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Gutted to learn Robert Silvers passed away earlier this week. He was undoubtedly one of the smartest people I have ever met. In the middle of our shoot he corrected one of the two assistants he required to keep up with his work load on a grammatical correction in one sentence of a 10k word piece without ever breaking eye contact. The world is definitely a less interesting to place without him. #robertsilvers #newyorkreviewofbooks #genius #hero
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tonyzaret · 9 years
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Another edition of the 1st vlog for smart people, the New York Review of the New York Review of Books!
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littlepichon · 11 years
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New York Review of Books article. Jay Epstein gets an A from Nabokov...
If Nabokov had given me an A... no wait. Scratch that. If Nabokov had so much as smirked in my direction it would've been the end of me. Really. I mean:
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita."
I'm in no way crying at the beauty of this book it's just very dusty next to this book. Very dusty ineed. Sob.
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chriswidman-blog · 11 years
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“Are there more idiots in the world today percentagewise than in some earlier ages?” asks Teofil Pancic, a columnist for Belgrade’s weekly Vreme. His answer is that it only seems so, because today they are more visible, more audible, and, of course, connected by the Internet. In the past, he wittily observes, everyone was his own idiot, isolated not only from the rest of mankind, but also from his fellow idiots, so that when something stupid occurred to him, there was no chance of it instantly becoming known to idiots in Tasmania and Uzbekistan.
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