Bob Wake

Father, husband, reader, writer, filmgoer, publisher

[Bob Wake @BobWake]

My short story “Mending Ruth” is now in print and online at Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine. Couldn’t be more pleased with the sharp layout and design.

[Bob Wake @BobWake]

My short story, “Mending Ruth,” which won the 2024 Wisconsin People & Ideas Fiction Contest, has taken “Honorable Mention” for the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction.
https://t.co/lX4AaDjAdH

[Bob Wake @BobWake]

“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!”

[Bob Wake @BobWake]

RIP John Barth (1930-2024)

[Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk]

Michael Hofmann's translation of Kafka's hilarious little story Poseidon, via @magistrabeck's Personal Anthology today https://t.co/gmXrEWp2q6

[UW-Madison Comm Arts @uwcommarts]

The Communication Arts community has lost one of it truly stellar figures. David Bordwell, the Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has left behind an enduring legacy in the art of cinema. https://t.co/65o7jxnLMU

[Matt Bucher @mattbucher]

Here is a little thing I wrote about DFW's use of email that I guess I had never put on my website before so I posted it today: https://t.co/Ht8232ghz6

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

This week Nonesuch Records celebrates its 60th anniversary. So I'm sharing my 60 favorite Nonesuch albums (in a 3-part article).

Here are some (thread below).

[Bob Wake @BobWake]

When Oprah’s Book Club tackles Fosse’s Septology

[Susie Goldsbrough @sgoldsbrough1]

I profiled Mr Fitzcarraldo. Best enjoyed in Hackney with a well thumbed Sartre under your arm

https://t.co/pOMfdzjCIK

[Rafaela Bassili @sallyjaygorce]

For @NotebookMUBI, I went long on the films of Nicole Holofcener, the '90s indie dramedy, and the importance of mid-range movies: https://t.co/jYd9wKSzte

[New Yorker Fiction @NYerFiction]

A New Yorker Interview: Merve Emre talks with Lydia Davis. https://t.co/yT9ExoHVpc

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

Terrific, blistering piece from @billlueders on Robin Vos, "the most prominent Republican in state government and, as countless episodes attest, kind of a jerk."

His style is "peevish, petulant, reflexively retributive" and "governance by temper tantrum."
https://t.co/Jwsv9qjcp0

[GQ Magazine @GQMagazine]

As a young boy, Martin Scorsese says “watching films came out of a necessity from the illness of asthma. And it came out of a loneliness, which I still have.” https://t.co/K7nROisnEV

[Jennifer Wilson @JenLouiseWilson]

For @NewYorker, I wrote about nationalism (in politics and publishing), Eastern Europe, and Coetzee's new novel: a love story that speaks in tongues.
https://t.co/TmvjC5RbcG

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

"Welles’s interrogation of Kafka’s subtext wouldn’t mean much if the director hadn’t found a cinematic language equal to the novelist’s distinctive effects: the tonal vertigo that seems to excavate the underside of ordinary existence..." https://t.co/nniVldc6p5

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

A word on F. Scott Fitzgerald's birthday; I'm obsessed with his doomed relationship with Hollywood; a few words about it, along with a confession of my ambivalent feelings toward The Great Gatsby and its cinematic connections: https://t.co/Ncg2BR9q4t
https://t.co/G2gOf29OqB