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Reminded at this time of year of the insomniac Nabokov who, while celebrating thanksgiving with Edmund Wilson, went wandering in his home that night and wrote a crazy poem about Wilson’s refrigerator, which, as he puts it, was ‘awake’ too 🧊🎉

very satisfying payoff to this sentence. a real surprise, lovely to see

It Happened To Me: I asked an old man for directions in the Irish countryside and he said 'well, I wouldn't start from here'

We all have that one friend whose jewel-encrusted tortoise collapsed under its own weight

Beautiful

Shakespeare was born on this day, & also died on this day. Which makes it all the more remarkable that he produced such a vast body of work

Pleased to report, following a recent visit, that Gail’s have finally changed their teapots. Thank you to everyone who supported the campaign

Robert Graves sequel: Hello to All This

The perfect joke doesn’t exi-

Yet more misinformation

The quiet carriage on LNER trains has been renamed ‘the quieter carriage’, which feels like an admission of defeat on a societal scale

Just for the joy of it, this is York’s superb railway station before the curve was cluttered with improvements.

The new Champions League format looks interesting

E. J. van der Mijle's mice-skeleton orchestra, as photographed by Lena Herzog.

great cover

At long last my piece on the Passport Bros for The Baffler is here! thebaffler.com/salvos/bang-th…

I wrote about Aliocha Coll, the two Attila’s, and the paradox of writing “for the future” in the era of too-late capitalism, for Review 31 (link below)

Hi yes this is more of a cri de coeur than a question

"I’m really encouraged by the new generation." We talk to Whit Stillman as the filmmaker tours the UK with 35mm screenings — discussing Austen, Trollope, Waugh, James, film vs digital, AI misinformation & publishing on film Interview by Daniel review31.co.uk/interview/view…