California and Canada and Australia have long provided aid to each other during wildfires. There is no excuse for Republican response to Canadian wildfire smoke, but lets acknowledge that good people help each other globally or we will all end up hating everyone. www.energy.ca.gov/sites/defaul...

First thought was reading of Ulysses, but then i realized it should be American and realized Moby Dick would be brilliant.

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Okay but What would YOUR totally gratuitous White House lawn event be, if YOU were the mad king of a dying superpower

#balzactogether Those descriptions! The boarding house, the people! i know sanitation was different then, but I feel I need to shower my eyeballs after reading 20 pages.

#nyrbwomen26 Lolly Willowes was such a gas to read, I found myself trying to explain the book, the plot to anyone I ran into, and you can imagine how that went! For those still readling I will just say I loved section 2, and section 3 is hard to explain to your favorite barista!

Why are Americans putting up with a regime that has zero respect for its people? My own opinion thinks voting out Trump will never happen in the mid terms. Neither will the Epstein files be released just like he evaded jail from insurrection on Jan 06th. Corrupt political and judiciary

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 7mo ago

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

#rachelcusktogether I am finally almost caught up, wondering about the dogs too, old school discipline-spanking, swatting, but beating is a very strong word. Dogs seem to help the male characters cope with their families? Dogs are easier than people. Has anyone read any of her memoirs?

#nyrbwomen25 I finished Mourning a Breast this morning and feel sad to leave Xi Xi behind, having fallen for her friendship, erudition, her Hong Kong, and her unique way of discussing illness. I have to find more from her--I wonder if NYRB will be coming out with more XI XI?

Purple mashed potatoes for #Thankgiving? Why not with sesame paste from Japan, sesame oil with and without chili, a touch of honey if you want it a bit sweeter?

Love the dual publication of The Week of Colors, Elena Garro & Queen of Spades, Jazmina Barrera. Garro's stories are little magical pearls; Barrera's "bio" of Garro shows a world of Mexican intellectuals not well known in the US. I want more from both! @catranslation.org

#NYRBWomen25 Mourning a Breast is a warm gentle read, XiXi carefully tells her story, letting us join in her daily life, filled with the story of the battle, as cancer is a battle, but also showing us her rich mind, sharing martial arts and her insightful knowledge of literature, what a delight.

#rachelcusktogether Another fantastic first chapter, Someone mentioned the font earlier, I think it might be affecting how I read her. I wonder if she had a say in its choice? I keep thinking of the word tidy, how she sets up her scenes and characters so carefully, then they wander off to???

You have to love the stores in San Francisco...😂👍

online.ucpress.edu/jams/article... This is a fantastic article that should be read by all arts producers and audiences.

The trilogy has been universally praised for doing something thrillingly new with the novel form—a wonderful outcome, but also perhaps indicative of what Cusk suspected: that people would prefer an absent narrator to a specific, female one. Paris Review on Rachel Cusk #rachelcusktogether

#rachelcusktogether Came back to reading Outline after a break for other things, and finished in 2 days, only to see that I am now (slightly) ahead 😂. I wonder what the next volume will bring, a new narrater, a new outline?

San Francisco Bay Area: We’re a group of immigrant writers and translators born in the former USSR, here to push back against the growing threat to freedom of expression. Come to our Lit Crawl event at Ruth’s Table (3160 21st Street) on October 25, 2025, 5 pm. @litquake.org #BayArea

#rachelcusktogether I will forgive Cusk her billionaire start, I am heartily sick of their tales in real life, but I loved the rest of today's read--the meet on the plane, the way she is unraveling the gentleman's story, the lovely description of the oft experienced plane safety ode.

#flauberttogether I loved this line, sadly knowing that I might forget a dear departed husband, just for a moment, when coffee is brought in. ☕ "They brought in the coffee; he stopped thinking about her." That perfect semicolon🤣 It brings back happy memories of #prousttogether ❤️

@neglectedbooks.com #Pilgrimage2026 #DorothyRichardson I read Pilgrimage with Brad and his gang several years ago and loved the deep dive into women’s lives of the early last century. I can’t wait to read again with these glorious new editions.

#flauberttogether remembering the excellent Lydia Davis event from @catranslation.org. I am grateful for the many fabulous translation events I have attended in SF with them.

#nyrbwomen25 I loved reading ICB A House and Its Head and then Angel, E.Taylor, what a great juxtaposition! Two great authors telling us delicious stories of 2 "heads" in all their horrible glory. Thank you @joiedevivre9.bsky.social for this double treat.

The Mark Taper Forum in LA staged The Tempest in 1979,directed by John Hirsch, ANTHONY HOPKINS as Prospero ,Stephanie Zimbalist as Miranda.

Satire beautifully done, turning both the country novel and idyllic villiage living on its head! #IvyCompton-Burnett, A house on its Head. #nyrbwomen25

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

#nyrbwomen25 Things are really heating up in our gentle boring county town. Who will get their just desserts in the end? #AHouseandItsHead #IvyCompton-Burnett

#henryvi_2025 Back from Mexico, and just finished VI part 2. I love the Henriad, such a gift to be reading them now, it is like finding lost Shakespeare plays!Thank you @christina500.bsky.social for a truly great read! When does pt 3 start?

#NYRBWomen25 The Oak and the Ax , NYStories of Elizabeth Hardwick. Love the character portrayals, the switched up success/failure stories of Clara and Henry, I esp. love how she has the supposed lazy failure (esp in go go NY) end up winning. The takedown of Clara is exquisite.

"Ok, give her your key and I will see her in the shop that morning after you're gone. I expect she has been running the joint anyway, the way women do." Sounds like a win for everyone in the final conflict. Marianne surely dodged a bullet! #nyrbwomen25 The Final Conflict, Elizabeth Hardwick.

www.criterion.com/films/228-th... #henryvi_2025 Such a fantastic film, I saw years ago in a fabulous screening with the SF Symphony. Nowadays they show movies such as James Bond and Marvel, not the same magic. It was wonderful on a big screen/lovely score played by great musicians.

#henryvi_2025 I am absurdly happy being back in the world of Henrys and Richards. I listened/read Act 1 yesterday & I wondered where is loyalty? Why did H V engender so much loyalty, why are these noblemen so quarrelsome? I guess these are questions that fit well into today re Europe/USA.