Steve Shilstone

@steveshilstone.bsky.social

octogenarian dadaist writer [Vineyard's Children (hippie novel) Chance (baseball novel)] and admirer of Jimmy the Joyce, Ginnie the Woolf, Sammy the Beck, Gertie the Stein, Lew the Carroll, Ed the Lear, etc and so on for quite a long list indeed

“You won’t recognize Miss Brooks at first, for she is wearing her hair curled over her head. This is too bad, for it makes her look just like a thousand other attractive girls.” — a critic on Louise’s new look for Evening Clothes (1927)

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MORE DASHIELL HAMMETT NOIR FROM 100 YEARS AGO 💙📚 #booksky The girl, remembering her advantage over me, went at him hot and heavy in Italian, a language in which I knew only four words, Two of them are profane and the other two obscene. I said all four.