MarkKohut

Consultant/Reader/writer

[Jay Kuo @nycjayjay]

Phang: “Per his lawyer, Blanche has produced to the judge the unredacted handwritten FBI interview notes of a victim who alleges sexual & physical abuse by Felon Trump.”
She actually made it happen! Badass.

[andrew dallos @adallos]

No Kings Rally In NYC #NoKingsDay

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

I do not think that is Dylan looking reflective at all....that is not such a look from him....it is a posed something else which I won't try to define. A put-on look to the sky,;his eyes are closed too...

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Bob Dylan looking deeply reflective on a muddy New York City street back in 1983. Photographer Lynn Goldsmith caught this incredible, moody portrait right around the time Dylan was working on his Infidels album. What is your favorite track from his 1980s catalog?

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

Any chance you could share those notes?...I will be discussing this great story in my upcoming LIFELONG LEARNING class...to bring them you and a recent lecture would be wonderful and they would love it, I know...

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Speaking of Coney Island, I’m wrapping up lecture notes on Delmore Schwartz’s “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” for tomorrow and looking forward to thinking aloud about dreams, Dostoevsky, Dante, Beckett and fiction.

[Metalanguage 🔑 @metalanguage_os]

@materialcritic Wittgenstein: the world is everything that is the case. Adorno: the whole is the false. someone get these two a couples therapist lol

[Matt Steichen @Matt_Stike]

I thoroughly enjoyed this article about Bob Dylan fandom: https://t.co/tZRjjb3tQT

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

I do not think the conclusion follows....the 'modern, accessible " style is now as dated as much older poetry in English; she did not do a great Dante.....we are still reading Dante in newer cooler language...Ciardi's translation is still in mass market, still readable.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

One thing I think about often is how in the 1950s, Dorothy Sayers’ translation of the Divine Comedy was known as “the people’s Dante” because it was written in a modern, accessible style beloved by millions. Because we’ve largely stopped teaching poetry, few can now read it.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

An anecdote: When I was a philosophy grad student, I worked at a small grocery store. One time, I was talking to a coworker and said something like, “Well, that’s just objectively true, right?”

She replied sarcastically: “You study philosophy and you believe in objective truth? Good luck with that!” She really seemed to think I couldn’t possibly believe in something so outlandish as objective truth.

The moral of this story is that I have no idea what the average person thinks philosophy is.

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

Wittgenstein, of course, of course even if he ignored and scorned me....he wouldn't talk to me probably but if I could listen to him talking to whoever....

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

You can spend ONE afternoon with:

• Gottlob Frege
• Bertrand Russel
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• W.V.O. Quine

Who are you choosing?

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

We have created an academic culture in which analyzing a novel's political implications is treated as more sophisticated than admiring its beauty.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

On the Cornell 7 and Jane Doe: I don't know if anyone reads or follows LA Magazine? I don't.

But they have been intensely covering the situation, and failed to publicly disclosed what is a glaring conflict of interest, while promising a "bombshell" to come.

The attorney for Winston Lee, one of the Cornell 7 who is from a very prominent and wealthy South Korean family (his grandfather is a former prime minister), has hired Teny Geragos, a high profile attorney, to represent him.

The co-owner of LA Magazine is Mark Geragos, Teny's dad. Their relationship has not been publicly disclosed as a conflict of interest in their coverage. One of the LA Magazine reporters is promising a "bombshell" to discredit Jane Doe. Just making you all aware.

H/t to David Denney for bringing this to my attention.

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie....Remains of the Day...homage to catalonia...We....

[James Martell @James_Martell_]

preparing a last intro to literature course with a theme at this college... the theme: "fascism."
...give me your recommendations, les amis, pronto!

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

You meant "illegality"

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee @SFRCdems]

Today, @SenatorShaheen and six bipartisan senators issued a statement regarding the legality of Russian diesel fuel imports to the United States.

🔗 Full release: https://t.co/r4fpB9mwn7

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

What we called a 'selling' blurb in publishing. Knausgaard much more known and liked than Houeelbecq. Who is disliked a lot by many good readers. So, he's "already great"--jump aboard. And, If you haven't been reading this already great writer, "keep abreast" with this new one.

[Moonstruck❤️‍🔥 @godspeed_aflame]

currently interested in subtly backhanded blurbs

[Eloise Davies @elo_dav]

What an excellent week for new books! Today’s congratulations to my brilliant former colleague @tmbejan. Excited to read.

https://t.co/ANeH3Sol21

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

Yes!....better than Marlowe actually.l...

[Rick Oehling @RickOehling]

@MarkKohut Georges Simenon's Maigret

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

Philip Marlowe.

[Paul Krause @paul_jkrause]

After Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, who is the best detective or private investigator in literary fiction?

[Garth Greenwell @GarthGreenwell]

Alexander Chee's brilliant first novel was first published 25 years ago. I was honored to write an introduction for the anniversary edition, & I’m grateful to @NewYorker for publishing it today. https://t.co/fr79DKWe3S

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

I think they price it like horseraces....who bets on whom and priced so they can't lose....Pynchon will never win and Murakami is a West fave always...one reason the house wins BIG...

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

Nobel Lit Prize odds...

I don't exactly know how they price this market unless there are leaks but it's v exciting to see Murakami and Pynchon so high today...

announcement on Thursday 7am EDT

[MarkKohut @MarkKohut]

Crane's The Open Boat
Cather, Paul's Case
Nabokov, A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Murakami, a Perfect Day for Kangaroos.

[😶‍🌫️patrick preziosi😶‍🌫️ @PatrickPreziosi]

Diane Williams, Pornography
Anna Kavan, I Am Lazarus
Tomoko Yoshida, Dunderhead
(Obligatory Cheever mention: The Five-Forty-Eight or The Summer Farmer)