Steve Holt

There’s more to life than books, you know, but not much more

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I feel bad when I follow interesting people on Twitter and then they follow back, probably just to be polite. I need a way to tell them it’s okay, there’s nothing here but pictures of books that I buy and don’t read.

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@InherentWise @SanStar00 Casi

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I noticed there’s a new edition and translation of Graciliano Ramos’s Barren Lives, but I can’t find anything about the publisher, “Sofia Publisher.” Is this a real translation?

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@Eternauta1 ¡Que lindo!

https://t.co/nbhzExooap

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There really should be a plaque here.

Childhood home of Roberto Arlt.

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@claustralis There was a brief interlude when they had great cover design.

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@DrewalsoKermit @DAMendelsohnNYC No, just the 13 stones with the text of Balckbird on them. Somehow I’ve never taken that walk.

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@DrewalsoKermit @DAMendelsohnNYC It pains me that the Hartford apartment where she really started Hadrian is just an apartment. No signs or markers.

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@_Mark_Walsh_ Someone nominated Good Morning, Midnight but it didn’t make the top 100.

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@medic_southside @hectorschector Beautiful. Hillwalking in Scotland is so picturesque.

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@medic_southside I was going to say that second one looks like Loch Lomond before I checked your profile.

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@elladorn_ She did suggest her ex-husband as a potential stand in!

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@hideeveryflower @helendewitt @eric_weinberger Now the reaction videos above seem a little gross and intrusive; $175k with no strings attached, except you have to perform how grateful you are over Zoom.

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@nguyenhdi Like all my tweets should come with a preface: “Because something is wrong with me,” I bought a lot of books, watched eight movies in a weekend, investigated inane Twitter drama…

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@nguyenhdi @TheEsteemedFox Howard’s End is an all-timer

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Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.

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Has anyone written about how odd it is that current litfic writers are basically all university employees?

If your book hits, you cash in by getting a university teaching job since you can no longer make a living from writing.

Is this why mainstream lit is so dire now?

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We’re going to have to quarantine all post-AI data in the future, just like how all post-WWII iron is contaminated with nuclear fallout.

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Brilliant work from Apple’s translate function on the iPhone.

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Ever since I returned from Argentina, I’m trying out new wines. Tonight: this Cab Franc

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@dollysgom Sí, todavía tengo todos mis discos de the Cure aunque ahora ni tengo reproductor. Mi hijo me los pide prestado.