https://prufrock.substack.com/p/rewilding-europe
https://prufrock.substack.com/p/on-unsettling-literature An unsettling play: Plano, set in Texas, by Will Arbery.
https://prufrock.substack.com/p/on-unsettling-literature An unsettling play: Plano, set in Texas, by Will Arbery.
Memorizing poetry Writer tries to memorize a poem a week
https://thecritic.co.uk/crossroads-of-history/ book on Cyprus
https://thecritic.co.uk/rehabilitating-an-edwardian-genius/ architect Lutyens
"Except there was always the other path. Verse, unlike prose, could be instantly transformative. In summer 1962, Plath broadcast a fine essay on writing poetry and how it differs from writing fiction: ‘How shall I describe it? – a door opens, a door shuts. In between you have had a glimpse: a garden, a person, a rainstorm, a dragonfly, a heart, a city. I think of those round glass Victorian paperweights … You turn it upside down, then back. It snows. Everything is changed in a minute.’"
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/magazine-life-arts/3206637/a-world-without-boys-chapter-books/ Her boys like Freddy the Pig too.
https://booksandideas.net/The-Poor-of-the-Ancien-Regime French book about the French poor of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Sounds like a remarkable book but it is currently only available in French.
https://hudsonreview.com/2024/11/at-lady-violets/ On Anthony & Violet Powell. Anthony was a novelist - I just read a Christopher Hitchens essay about him & his work sounds interesting. He wrote a twelve-book novel. His wife Violet sharpened his work as iron sharpens iron.
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a62962446/haruki-murakami-profile-2024/
"In April 1978, Murakami attended a baseball game at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo. An American player named Dave Hilton hit a double into left field, and when the ‘satisfying crack’ of Hilton’s bat arrived at Murakami’s ears, he thought to himself, apropos of nothing, I think I can write a novel. And he was right.”
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a62962446/haruki-murakami-profile-2024/
"In April 1978, Murakami attended a baseball game at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo. An American player named Dave Hilton hit a double into left field, and when the ‘satisfying crack’ of Hilton’s bat arrived at Murakami’s ears, he thought to himself, apropos of nothing, I think I can write a novel. And he was right.”
https://gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-napoleon-hill-the-greatest-self-he-1789385645
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/12/night-of-the-world Rilke/Holderlin
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/12/night-of-the-world Rilke/Holderlin
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/falling-in-love-with-fanny-and-robert-louis-stevenson/
"The strife was necessary for Stevenson, who believed “the spice of life is battle; the friendliest relations are still a kind of contest.” They fought with and for each other, but in comparing marriage to warfare, Stevenson meant something else. For him, “the man who should hold back from marriage is in the same case with him who runs away from battle,” because Stevenson saw both as a moral test—“an occasion for our virtues.”
"The strife was necessary for Stevenson, who believed “the spice of life is battle; the friendliest relations are still a kind of contest.” They fought with and for each other, but in comparing marriage to warfare, Stevenson meant something else. For him, “the man who should hold back from marriage is in the same case with him who runs away from battle,” because Stevenson saw both as a moral test—“an occasion for our virtues.”
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet
Rory McEwen, the otherworldly artist who made his name at The Spectator Early introducer of the blues to Britain. Extremely good botanical artist.
Rory McEwen, the otherworldly artist who made his name at The Spectator Early introducer of the blues to Britain. Extremely good botanical artist.
https://viamediaevalis.substack.com/p/beowulf-and-the-myth-of-primitive Not in Prufrock but that type of thing.
Both sound really interesting:
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2025/01/iain-mcgilchrists-new-era
Both sound really interesting:
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2025/01/iain-mcgilchrists-new-era
https://blog.ayjay.org/family-matters/ Christopher Lasch
"This [Wendell Berry statement] is effectively the conclusion that Lasch came to by the end of his book: that the conservation of the family is something that can only be achieved by politically and economically radical means. "
"That argument is: The modern economic order simultaneously creates the need for family to be a haven and prevents it from serving as a haven. "
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/barry-malzberg-obituary-science-fiction/ Once wrote a novel in 27 hours. Sounds kind of interesting - PKD liked him.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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