Tobias Lambrecht
@blechtram.bsky.social
Bürolist. Literature, blues discographies, audio pieces. Co-organising sonohr.ch, writing for literaturschweiz.ch / viceversaliteratur.ch, did read for literatur.ch 2025/26, not doing anything obscure on textlambrecht.com
At this point, the LRB will just ride this wave to the veryn end and eventually quote-post the entire article, bit by bit (rightly so!)
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 7h ago‘There are more female characters than in most Nolan movies, thanks to the source material. But none of them has much to say, in contrast to the characterisations in the poem.’ @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Christopher Nolan’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reading Peter Blegvad's "Milk" – it's formatted like a on-demand-Word-document, and it's just a bunch of quotes he assembled about, well, milk. But it's expectably odd in a minor way, and leads me to things I didn't know, like this scarfolk.blogspot.com
Hope dies Hope das Hope dies das see what I did there @mmvlct.bsky.social
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Scenes from Helena, a 1924 German silent epic about the Trojan War
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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for those interested, you can get a glimpse of Nolan's PTSD-Odysseus in Homer's text, book 8 (linked is Samuel Butler's translation which hilariously uses the gods' latin names, from Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/files/1727/1...
Wilson's review is an absolute riot, and while she reads some of Nolan's decisions gleefully against their intent, I really like how she exposes the core issue: It's an ideologically vapid piece of war-heroism (really nailing the "there's no such thing as an anti-war film"-adage), and…
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
lrb.co.uk
the guy who coined the ‚honey badger don‘t care‘ phrase
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
Die Altphilologin Katharina Wesselmann ist für Geschichte der Gegenwart ins Kino gegangen. Was macht Christopher Nolan aus den Ambivalenzen der berühmten literarischen Vorlage? geschichtedergegenwart.ch/ein-unkompli...
Ein (un)komplizierter Held: Christopher Nolan saniert die Antike
Die Altphilologin Katharina Wesselmann ist für Geschichte der Gegenwart ins Kino gegangen und hat dabei zugeschaut, wie Christopher Nolan die Ambivalenzen der berühmten literarischen Vorlage zu Action...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch
"What are you doing?" -"I'm bored." "Why are you bored? You've got a million things to do." -"I am BORED because it's FUN." Bested again by the 10-year old
Just bought and re-read Jim Woodring's Weathercraft aber consuming it in a library back when it came out, so here I am posting a New Yorker article from 2022 www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
The Cute and Horrifying World of Jim Woodring
In “One Beautiful Spring Day,” the cartoonist takes his orders from the imaginary world that he creates.
newyorker.com
Memphis Minnie's complete recordings on CD/LP textlambrecht.com/music-and-al...
Habe bei viceversa (jetzt bei literaturschweiz.ch) etwas zu den aktuellen Romanen von Martina Clavadetscher und Charles Lewinsky geschrieben www.literaturschweiz.ch/literaturfen...
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