books, images, place
LITERARY VOYAGERS forthcoming from Belt Publishing
Andrew Wittkop
The whole thread is amazing icym the incredible Brontë news yesterday.
"That sentence alone is enough to send indie Berliners of a certain age into a spell of Sebaldian melancholy so extreme it can only be resolved by a twenty-minute angry nap." Read @ajbwells.bsky.social's piece to find out what the sentence was! open.substack.com/pub/theaufla...
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Thoreau
idle as a painted ship / upon a painted ocean
Ivan Aivazovsky, "Landscape with Sailing Ship" (1874)
Some photos I took on a walk in Toledo‘s Old West End neighborhood today.
Looking for new perspectives on German history? This month's reviews: @ajbwells.bsky.social on rock in the GDR, me on Alice Miller's search for her family's story, and John Owen on interwar Weimar (the city, not the republic).
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
A copy of Odawa historian Andrew Blackbird's 1887 book History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan with birchbark binding and porcupine quillwork decoration by his sister Margaret Boyd.
Packing for a visit to Oberfranken and realizing I'm bringing an A-list crew of Bluesky translators along @wordkunst.bsky.social @unpaginated.bsky.social @dances-with-voles.bsky.social @genesegrill.bsky.social
