Peter Schmader

“I just said that, Mr. Kerby.” | Mrzutý 🧵

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“As klezmer music played from his phone, he ran his hand across the spines of ‘The Russian Theater after Stalin’ and ‘The Kurdish Question in Iraq.’ He tenderly held up a book of poems by Abraham Reisen, a Yiddish writer he was smitten with.”

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“One afternoon last month, Uminer stood amid the leaning towers, savoring his unruly paradise while he still could.—@AlexVadukul https://t.co/xnzqhLBMYT

[Jason P. Woodbury @jasonpwoodbury]

Victoria Williams, "You R Loved"

Live on Leno, 1995.

Full video: https://t.co/65ZJ3uBMA5

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

@JayJenni @groveatlantic @ransomcenter Beautiful, Jay. I would prize that, too. In January I got to see “Arcadia” at the Old Vic. We are lucky.

[Grove Atlantic @groveatlantic]

Happy Tom Stoppard Day! Today the British literary world is celebrating the great Tom Stoppard.
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[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“We are in the land of more.”—@SophieHaigney https://t.co/XqzRLRHaz3

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“(Technically, one client was briefly engaged to Shemp Skarsgård, but things were called off when it came to light that she had lied on her application about liking coffee.)—Sarah Hutto https://t.co/hhPL05vJjN

[What're you giving me with the flying fish @RomanPBone1]

Can't believe I nearly missed her birthday.

The luminous Pamela Brown. One of my favourite introductions to a character, in one of my favourite films. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945). 🎬

[Sophie Haigney @SophieHaigney]

It’s a Warren Zevon Anthony Powell summer because I say so

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“There was, as many people pointed out, a certain irony to Trump’s going to bat for a birthright citizen. But I didn’t really see it. Trump doesn’t care about consistency. What he does care about is Trump.”—@louisahthomas https://t.co/QwEmzylCdt

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“Sport rarely offers such a clean epilogue. This one, unfortunately, might.”—@lilimichelena https://t.co/xR87a47uSC

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

Out in the street the Gilles celebrate.

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

I am rarely this delighted.

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

I am rarely this delighted.

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

This is nice. Small café in Binche. M and Mme Praetere, owners, serving veal in a shallot, mushroom, and cream sauce. We’re watching. They locked the door. I’m enjoying myself. Pâté after supper.

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

This is nice. Small café in Binche. M and Mme Praetere, owners, serving veal in a shallot, mushroom, and cream sauce. We’re watching. They locked the door. I’m enjoying myself. Pâté after supper.

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“Sometime between 85 and 43 B.C., the Roman writer Publilius Syrus arrived at a judgment that would gain traction never. In a poetic phrasing, he called a beautiful face a ‘mute
recommendation.’ Alas, no one told Instagram.”

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“If anything, we are moving toward a world where more and more of us will identify as face blind, unable to determine whose stretched, perfectly flushed skin belongs to whom.”—@GiniaNYT https://t.co/jEHXda91rI

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

Both pissed as newts, they slumbered as the ship went / round and round.

You don't need navigation when you don't care where / you're bound.

—Basil Ransom-Davies

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“At 2am, Mayor Randy Attaway lay in bed, praying for quiet, fearful of the locals’ complaints. But they never came.”—@charlotteharpur https://t.co/NckQZECOGq

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

Here’s to Nicholas Henriquez @NewYorker and his entry for “Eight Great American Novels”: “A dagger of a novel, brief and lethal, ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ is the great American apostasy—West reminds us that life does scant giving, and much taking away.” 🥂

[Peter Schmader @jpschmader]

“Disunion is as rich a vein in American political history as union is.”—Jill Lepore https://t.co/8hQDEP7Tzy