Tracy Quan
@tracyquannyc.bsky.social
Author, broadcaster, emerging poet. Novels https://tinyurl.com/DMCG-ebook Essays https://tinyurl.com/47huhbn5 Verses https://tinyurl.com/mst8umpv, https://tinyurl.com/3emu88we & https://tinyurl.com/2e2n94ky
What a fun evening! On June 3, Poetry-delphia turned out to welcome Poetry for Dummies, 2d edition. We packed Fergie's Pub (a hearty thanks), wondrous poets read wondrously, and I got to lick the fur of my new foal and nose it forth to trot into the world. Even sold a few books!!
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Don’t Worry - Dan Power - Literary Matters
anything that needs doing can be done fires grow easily and burn themselves out on the sun every day is a perfect day but down here it’s dark and the leaves are always falling you leave the same house...
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Breakfast with Ishmael: www.pequodpod.com/2623386/epis...
Episode 6: Breakfast - PequodPod
Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.Hope you're hungry because this is a big boy breakfast! Hot rolls, pea coffee, beefsteaks done rare! In this episode, Tristan, ...
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Egad, almost created bright pink wallpaper for the Stack and it made my eyes hurt. No.
librivox.org/british-and-... A treat for your ears. Open access audio book. Some highlights: When I Knew Stephen Crane by Willa Cather; Walt Whitman in Europe by R Zubof; The Pretty Things... column by an 1886 Cosmo girl. Early Cosmo! Volume One! Bellona Times has a good, clear reading voice.
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I think all of you know this by now, but: my walking tours for @fullstorybaltimore.tours are totally original and incorporate months of primary-source research + secondary-source reading. This new one has been a ridiculous many-month, multi-archive research effort, & I've put my whole heart into it
Why don't you... imagine how you might look attired in upholstery even though it's heatwave season? With apologies to Diana VREELAND! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
This Fall, Consider Dressing Like Your Living Room
Jacquard, velvet, shaggy shearling and tapestry — all staples of interior design — are cropping up in wardrobes.
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How the Bayeux Tapestry got its groove back... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/a...
The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long and Bumpy Road to London (Gift Article)
French art experts insisted the fragile 900-year-old masterpiece could never travel. Political will, cutting-edge engineering and unorthodox diplomacy proved them wrong.
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Ha ha. I muted everything w a certain person's name because the pics are unbearable. Now some things stand out more: for example Pauline Hansen's poll results and Harvard body parts. But hey, at least I am not seeing wall to wall jowls.
💙📚 On RTHK just now, had a wonderful time discussing Lucy Sante's 2022 book "Nineteen Reservoirs," a history of NYC's water supply, along with "Maybe the People Would Be the Times," her exquisite essay collection (2020). "I wanted to speak the beautiful language of my time." Baudelaire
The governor who stepped up when seniors were schlepping to New Jersey for their annual shots? Or a descent into the inferno of barbarism? Some decisions are easy, New York. And necessary!
Tracy Quan@tracyquannyc.bsky.social · 6d agoAnd just like that, our civilization is on the line. I knew this was looming, but I chose not to focus. Now it’s all I can think about. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
And just like that, our civilization is on the line. I knew this was looming, but I chose not to focus. Now it’s all I can think about. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Hochul, Blakeman campaign in NYC with less than 3 months until Election Day
Hochul spent time on the Lower East Side promoting a food benefits program for kids, and Blakeman was in Flushing, Queens, with business leaders.
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The Best Clothing Stores in New York www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Just for fun fellow fashionistas!! #fashion, #fun To read all gift articles just register once with the Nyt (this is free)
The Best Clothing Stores in New York (Gift Article)
New York is, was and always will be a shopping town. These are the stores that keep it vibrant and alive.
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Viewpoint diversity at the south bank book market under Waterloo bridge.
Rather than jumping onto the ressentiment bandwagon, people like us might want to have a think about this unfortunate phenomenon.
Tracy Quan@tracyquannyc.bsky.social · last wk.A tourist from PA carries a loaded firearm to my former/frequent workplace, where many sex workers earn a living, where hospitality staff work... endangering everyone in the area, commits a murder. Some who should know better are behaving like children today, as if this were a cartoon. It's not.
A tourist from PA carries a loaded firearm to my former/frequent workplace, where many sex workers earn a living, where hospitality staff work... endangering everyone in the area, commits a murder. Some who should know better are behaving like children today, as if this were a cartoon. It's not.
Good, let's move on. There is nothing sadder than the spectacle of a suburban mind attached to a firearm, achieving notoriety through violence.
free party concept: silent disco but everyone is just listening to The Power Broker audiobook
Beautiful and well told. I felt my pulse slowing and my world softening as I read this biography of a local collector's unique business.... villagepreservation.org/2026/08/12/b...
Business of the Month: The End of History, 548 Hudson Street - Village Preservation
Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village, the East Village, or NoHo: click he...
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Reading about my fave heretics, the Cathars, and musing about liberal support for the current pope. It's a slippery slope ... and no I'm not a fan of the ppl he excommunicated. But the Cathars!
How do people using non motorized bikes view the current road situation? Is it safe? Is it viable?
Happy Birthday, Enid Blyton. ♌️🦁 (11 August 1897)
Tracy Quan@tracyquannyc.bsky.social · 2w agoOn the question of JKR's books and social views: I prefer Enid Blyton. 🤷♀️
On the question of JKR's books and social views: I prefer Enid Blyton. 🤷♀️
Imho, a tongue in cheek reference to Game o Thrones was intrusive and unnecessary. The piece is interesting enough without it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/a...
How the Bayeux Tapestry Got to the British Museum (Gift Article)
French art experts insisted the fragile 900-year-old masterpiece could never travel. Political will, cutting-edge engineering and unorthodox diplomacy proved them wrong.
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