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Leaving this on my tl because it's a beautiful photo, and I took it earlier today by a pond in the park (am in my Impressionist era.) This app is just vanity posts anyways.

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, translated by Michael Glenny. Harper and Row, 1967. Cover art by Mercer Mayer.

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Fin. The Céline / Cronenberg / Nabokov amalgamation I didn't know I needed

Next up Shadow Ticket...and then here's the reading list for the next several months.

Raymond Carver / Cathedral Vintage Contemporaries, 1984

“Can I bum an… IDEA?” —The Man Who Smokes Thoughts (2025)

Lucretius poem was lost for centuries before being found by a Renaissance humanist & scholar named Poggio Bracciolini. Little details like this would make you believe in miracles.

Marx and Engels in the Louvre - Soviet painting by Ivan Vepkhvadze

my penguin modern classics wishlist

Leonora Carrington - The Magician, 1955.

When Edwin Frank says read it, I say “yessir”

has anyone ever read this?

Every Oct, I try to push Shirley Jackson or Mariana Enriquez, but this year, let me persuade you to read María Fernanda Ampuero. These stories capture human rot and socio-political violence. Leaving me with a lingering fear of what we are becoming as a society.

The Third Part of the Night (1971) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

bookculture

It took a century of propaganda, rivers of blood and trillions of dollars to make it seem like communism wasn’t popular with working people.

I did a presentation on this a few hours ago for a Japanese class. The best movie of all time. You absolutely owe it to yourself to watch it if you haven't already while we are still in the spooky season.

“Cubano Chant,” 1964 — Oscar Peterson and his trio redefining what rhythm and precision sound like.