... while Donna Tartt deplores AI ... Catalogs, canons, and curated lists will become more valuable says Hollis Robbins btw AI has proved of little use in the making of Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/universiti...

Universities would prefer not to.

AI and the degree monopoly

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naming The Secret History / Donna Tartt as your sorta guilty fav ––––– class this act as dropping into and out of Campden College ––––– Beyond Bad and Good or Jenzeits von Güt und geSchlecht ––––– @sibyllacumae.bsky.social @jessesword.com

In her latter days Donna Tartt chooses to boost J F Martel –––––––––––––––– This new essay speaks to me far more than his 2015 book ––– aeon.co/essays/human... ––– Yet I persist in peering into the realm beyond their adored graven images ––– toujours au-delà

Here's a draft entry for a fugitive Donna Tartt text. Has anyone willing to share captured more than the two paragraphs quoted by Hooper?

This substacker just typologized Donna Tartt into a Meyers-Briggs inspired schema for writers ( translating back as INTP ) theultimatewritingguide.substack.com/p/i-wanted-m...

i wanted mbti for writers. so i made one. (The 16 Writing Types)

I spent my formative teen years obsessed with personality tests.

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Hoax & Rumor make up one minor class of Donna Tartt phenomena ––––––– Tartt herself possesses epigone hoaxter tendencies in some measure traceable to maestro Poe ––––––– As within so without this is one of multiple instances of Tarttish grifting by MediaMass ––––––– en.mediamass.net/people/donna...

Did you know that Donna Tartt has refused to let Penguin rejacket The Secret History, which is why the standard paperback has the same cover it did in 1993?

@moshebaum.bsky.social If you like, happy to credit you for discovery of items that expand the listing in section A – Here's a no-library-access item listed as "not seen": A-2023 Donna Tartt. Nahrhafte Glückskekse. Wohndesign Goodlife issue 3 (May-June 2023) 86-87

Dostoyevsky & The Secret History / Donna Tartt ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– astute new essay vestvfu.elpub.ru/jour/article... #booksky

7 of 7 = Dust-Ups & Back-and-Forths Early on, Donna Tartt adopts a prevailing stance of indifference to and ignorance about whatever reviewing has to say about her novels. But ... medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

Seven Takes

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6 of 7 = Never Never Land With the exception of one Russian formalist, who writes in Russian, no commentator has laid very bare how Donna Tartt writes the same novel, again and again and again. medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

Seven Takes

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5 of 7 = Fan Affections a phalanx of fandom can bristle with hostility at critique of "Donna Tartt" medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

Seven Takes

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4 of 7 = Russian Reception & Middlebrow starting from around 2015 the Russian scholarly establishment has mobbed all of Donna Tartt's novels medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

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3 of 7 = Lili Anolik in pursuit of the secret history of Donna Tartt herself a spirit of tribute turns into unanticipated consternation medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

Seven Takes

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2 of 7 = Academic Citation something about Donna Tartt's writing seems to repel academic analysts medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

Seven Takes

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1 of 7 = “Donna Tartt” Ab Ovo • a cosmopolite straight out of Grenada Mississippi • an accumulating body of text twins with a curated celebrity persona • a Cinderella slipperiness medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

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In 1500 words Nurayn Khan exhausts and deplores a tangential harvardness, whose essence is distilled from narrator Richard's attractions to a straightforward elitism. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Secret History / Donna Tartt – #booksky theharvardpoliticalreview.com/tartt-secret...

Harvard and The Secret History - Harvard Political Review

Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” in many ways, mirrors Harvard’s elitist culture, exposing the often harmful social dynamics that exclusive social spaces create.

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This 23 March 2026 podcast owns the "one-off on TSH" podium ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Solid content & engaging rhythm ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Secret History / Donna Tartt #booksky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The Secret History: Dark Academia, Greek Myth, and Murder

Podcast Episode · The Book Club · 24 March · 1hr 23min

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Lotte Houwink ten Cate age 35 looks back twelve years on "distant" immersive reading of The Secret History / Donna Tartt

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Lotte Houwink ten Cate: ‘<b>De verborgen geschiedenis </b>weigert een knieval te maken’ Historicus en schrijver Lotte Houwink ten Cate (35) las De verborgen geschiedenis van Donna Tartt twaalf jaar geleden als student in New York. Bij de herlezing lag het boek onder in de kinderwagen.

–––––––––––––––––––– Three so's say so-so –––––––––––––––––––– Brian Vales @brian-vales.bsky.social who teaches English at Lycée Condorcet Paris 9e will not be joining the cult of Donna Tartt

Is Lili Anolik emulating Donna Tartt's protracting immersion in her fourth novel by foot-dragging on that third & final crack at the Bennington saga? "My desire has to come back" Deal w Scribners notwithstanding –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– www.vanityfair.com/style/story/... –––––––––– #booksky

"Didion & Babitz" Author Lili Anolik Can’t Stop Digging Up Literary Dirt

The Vanity Fair contributing editor, who has also tangled with the tumult of Bennington ’86 and Traci Lords, on why she’ll never tire of writing about “people fighting and fucking and influencing each...

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Statistic: Out of about 102,000 words in Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 7 = "vibe(s)" / 1 = "algorithm" Not-quoted-per-se status = 4 instances of vibe The 1 instance of "algorithm" happens to quote Tartt Fancy that one … @penny.hailey.at

When @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social goes insane w Claude Code to hack out a slice-and-dice on the lit establishment – sinykin.substack.com/p/power-rank... – Donna Tartt unsurprisingly does not make it onto his "weird" list of the Power FiftyOne ( obvs how a Maecenas obviates the NEA )

The Secret History / Donna Tartt as « a narrative that is less concerned with what happens than with how longing transforms perception » Last week from Sarah Maria Lillig this 1254-word essay sarahmarialillig.substack.com/p/looking-be... #booksky

Looking Beneath the Surface of Superficiality

On Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

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«The Secret History» by Donna Tartt (1992) is the origin … of this book … ———————————————————— Happy P-Day to Classicist Sophie Mills 2 February 2026 ———————————————————— Puzzle: Can you spot the textual error in the Seducers paragraph? Hint: metathesis ———————————————————— #booksky

Donna Tartt hot-pink blurbed for Edward St. Aubyn #booksky

… I Want to Burn this Place Down … Maybe that resonant title activated the author-bot because Tartt once posed « Tribulation » as a title possibility for The Little Friend (2002) ? ———————— Tribulation being the burned-down Mississippi Tara that housed the Cleve family back when

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Fuck yeah. Donna Tartt, “an author,” wrote to me.

Suburban Mayhem (2006) resonates with The Secret History / Donna Tartt (1992) • Whydunnit • Two murders • Oblique incest [ More details in following reply-skeet ] www.imdb.com/title/tt0450... #booksky

✣✣✣ in 2025 ✢✣✣ Ruan Felipe Madela Lima orcid.org/0009-0008-63... published two unusually useful academic articles about The Secret History / Donna Tartt

Bunny the antagonist turns into protagonist because Richard is so not there ——————————————— The Secret History / Donna Tartt

lyria@sokerikorppu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Luettua – The Secret History, Donna Tartt (sisältää spoilereita kirjasta) Tämä oli kyllä melkoinen kirja ja on kuulkaa myös vuoden ensimmäinen sellainen. Olen ollut pitkään tietoinen tästä Donna Tarttin The Secret Historysta (suom. Jumalat juhlivat öisin) onhan kirja kuitenkin ysäriklassikko ja…