Sam

[Sam @demblehoffer]

For @nplusonemag, I wrote about Michael Hurley and his sublimely strange folk tunes about eating a lot, hanging out with friends, and sometimes being a lonely loner
https://t.co/ElTQJBMBHD

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@tuhintranslates I memorized this poem as a freshman while procrastinating writing a midterm essay. Then Ulysses when finals came around

[Phil Klay @PhilKlay]

“Why, you may be wondering, was this long whine ever written down? It’s not a memoir, not an argument—what is it, anyway? The first draft—very much shorter and even more purple—was a suicide note”

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@sophiefkemp "She wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being"

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

I wondered what type of house Jordi Savall lives in. Looks about right.

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@yaba_badoe @GilesMacDonogh @CarlbergSvAkad The person behind this is an Italian writer named Tommaso Debenedetti. He's been making fake announcements of celebrity deaths under impersonation since the early 2000s. A number of articles have been written about him. Not sure why this isn't better known https://t.co/dmQgY9KfLg

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@Greg_Gerke @davewingrave Like you, I also began to weary of the scrupulously un-self-examining narrator. The late recognition of her own "nasty soul," as David calls it, should have been effective but for me was oversubtle. (Teju Cole's Open City does this extremely well.) Did love the very end though

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@hering_david As dark as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie gets, I will say it did not prepare me for how much more sinister the rest of the novels are: the "curse" of Far Cry From Kensington, the sacrificed innocents of Girls of Slender Means, the bizarre sadism Driver's Seat, etc

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@NickPinkerton Watched this last night at Lincoln Center after seeing this tweet and completely adored it. Thanks for putting it on my radar

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@victoriamoul @MHHuisman In Praise of Folly or something else?

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@souljagoyteller https://t.co/TTZdmjrbV8

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@CapenerSean @TiltingatM3 @drumm_colin Makes sense. The goal with the Wickham is to read something accurate and up-to-date. With the Bloch more so to see what the Annales school was up to and with Huizinga hopefully just to read something beautiful

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@TiltingatM3 @drumm_colin Thanks. I recently read Brown's World of Late Antiquity and Henry Chadwick's Early Church. The second wasn't bad but Brown's writing is so good it's kind of spoiled me on other things

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@TiltingatM3 @drumm_colin Any favorites on the medieval period? Was about to start Wickham's Medieval Europe. Also have Huizinga and Bloch nearby

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@lightumbreIla @wedwooo My first encounter with the prose poem form. Other best collections of prose poems?

[Sam @demblehoffer]

Wonderful

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

Saudi Aramco is perhaps best known as the rapacious national oil company of Saudi Arabia, but since 1949, its U.S. subsidiary has also published an unusual print magazine—a free periodical that, as Krithika Varagur (@krithikavaragur) writes, blends “the recondite trivia of an almanac with the effortful style of the classical general-interest magazine, like Life.”⁠

https://t.co/eiT5Lndk63

[James Vincent @jjvincent]

"The gift was immense, the creative profusion unprecedented, the promise magnificent, the curtailment brutal." - an absolutely gorgeous piece on the life and lieder of Schubert. https://t.co/t4U6nRarzS

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@jjvincent Fantastic piece

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@goodforzer0 @molochofficial Specifically, I think the pattern here is a declarative sentence ("X is Y," e.g. "The ache is low and rhythmic"), followed by 2, 3, or 4 adjective phrases that modify and redescribe the object (in this case the ache, eg "a 2nd heartbeat in my ribs," "steady and insistent," etc)

[Sam @demblehoffer]

@andrewmarzoni Possibly in one of the many LRB pieces he was writing around then. Thanks anyway