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2025 books read. Not pictured, Lutz’s Backwardness. Best of the year: The Mountain Lion by Jean Stafford, with Purdy’s Cabot Wright Begins close behind.

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Frank Moore Colby, 1902.

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@geoffwilt I read Nabokov’s Dozen and immediately bought the Vintage International. People seem to overlook his short stories, but they’re some of the best I’ve ever read.

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@wandr_bkwise The snot-green penguins are the superior penguins.

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Up next (to see where it lands amongst AUGIE and HERZOG)

[Morow Jävis Kærdenax @IneluctableQuak]

AUGIE never worked for me but I’ve reread HERZOG many times & enjoyed HUMBOLDT’S GIFT

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Shameless self-promotion. I was recently published in Wintersweet Magazine’s first issue. Snippet and link below.

https://t.co/wHCzvOt2Ey

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We are a speck of dust in the history of time. If reading is important to you, finding time will be no issue.

[Emmett Stinson @EmmettStinson]

I have always made time for personal reading on top of academic work b/c otherwise it’s too easy to get jaded. I’ll sleep when I’m dead.

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@EmmettStinson Every time her name appears, I am more and more happy with myself that I purchased for cheap a signed copy of Praiseworthy at my local bookstore.

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I don't resile from this.

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@nosubstance Alexis is more of the cultural moment and I can see her being picked over Murnane for that reason. Her fiction of course is fantastic, but my sensibilities favour Murnane.

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@wandr_bkwise I'll eat mine too.

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Cynthia Ozick an outside chance.

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Anne Carson deserves it imo. If Murnane wins I’ll legally change my name to Gerald.

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@shrelpshrelp I feel his chances have passed.

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Anne Carson deserves it imo. If Murnane wins I’ll legally change my name to Gerald.

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Recent arrivals.

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As of this morning, there are now two books that have made me miss my bus stop: White Noise by DeLillo and Brideshead Revisted by Waugh.

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@amillionwindows Brilliant, thank you JM.

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Give me your best albums for reading. Looking to update my good (yet stale) playlist.

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@EmmettStinson I subscribed to LRB for a few years simply to get Adam’s reviews. One of the best.

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@damiankelleher He’s right, but he doesn’t heed his own advice.

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@the7424 Evelyn Waugh by Selina Hastings.

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One of the best opening lines for a biography.

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@SnowsOfTomorrow I’ll report back once I’ve read the book.