Harris Wheless

Writer from NC | Nonfiction MFA @iowa_nwp | Writing @oxfordamerican @nprmusic @indyweek @BWDR | [email protected]

[Harris Wheless @harris_wheless]

I have a piece up on @nprmusic today! I wrote an overview of NC's experimental folk scene, exploring how local musicians are finding throughlines between old-time, Primitive guitar, drone, electronica, and more https://t.co/w6HOhZ9P5I

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

Robert Creeley being cheeky

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Fifty years ago today, Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" was published in the pages of @NewYorker. What a poem!

[Harris Wheless @harris_wheless]

Read this in a 19th cent russian lit course in college. Loved picturing this guy traveling by cart in the caucasus. A bad cover in translation classic

[Aatif Rashid @Aatif_Rashid]

Modern Library has a lot of terrible cover (Swann’s Way with the pillow), but this one is so bad it’s unintentionally a work of genius—because maybe a nineteenth century Russian Byronic hero would in fact dress like this today.

[Wie Dan🍃 @LudditeHacker]

Tolstoy on Chekhov and Shakespeare

[luis reséndiz @lapetitemachine]

hoy es un buen día para recordar aquel poema de leonard cohen sobre kanye west, una de las últimas cosas que escribió antes de morir

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

the mysterious, dreamlike, and psychedelic landscapes of eccentric 17th-century dutch painter hercules seghers (1589-1638).
he influenced artists like rembrandt and surrealists like max ernst. german filmmaker werner herzog called him a “forgotten genius”

[Bilge Ebiri @BilgeEbiri]

Photo from the 1975 soccer match between the crews of Pasolini’s SALO and Bertolucci’s 1900.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Remembering one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Jean-Pierre Melville, on his 108th birthday!

Breathless (1960)
Director: Jean-Luc Godard

[pavement archive @pavementarchive]

27 years ago today, Silver Jews released their third album, American Water.

The record marked Stephen Malkmus’s return to the band, with contributions on vocals, lead guitar, and songwriting.

What’s your favorite track? ♡

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

Tonight’s Dickinson envelope poem, itself a fragmentary sail, a dart in the wind, a Velocity scrapped out from Eternity:

[Harris Wheless @harris_wheless]

@DavidLambertArt Awesome, thanks! Have seen all those but pursued. Will have to check that one out

[Harris Wheless @harris_wheless]

@PersonalRecords @CIGARETTEMOVIES 🥲

[phillip crymble @phillipcrymble]

Lorine Niedecker, born on this day in 1903

[Jaroslav's Pen @Jaro_Hasek]

Jaroslav Hašek was born this day in 1883.

Celebrate the occasion by reading one of his previously untranslated short stories, translated into English for the first time ever (link in reply):

[RealClearBooks & Culture @RealClearBooks]

https://t.co/rA1aCzBFGb
Thursday reads: @harris_wheless for @clereviewbooks, @valerie_reads for @unherd, @matthewspecktor for @the_met_review, @dolanmart_in for @the_point_mag, @NickBurns for @NewLeftReview, @Celestemarcus3 for @bookforum, and @lola_seaton for @NewStatesman.

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"Now, at long last, we have an Allen biography. In Greaves, Allen has found the kind of friend, curator, and collaborator every great artist deserves."

@harris_wheless on Brendan Greaves's recent biography of Terry Allen @HachetteBooks
https://t.co/FrE7B9DpUZ

[Harris Wheless @harris_wheless]

Happy to say I reviewed the new Brendan Greaves biography of the great Terry Allen for @clereviewbooks (thanks to @Cary_O_Cary for the edits!) https://t.co/gMARBralG2

[jamie @jmsnftzptrck]

James Wright's perfect poem

[Harris Wheless @harris_wheless]

@ryleywalker You deserve it. Hope it’s cool and relaxing