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Losing it over this therapy horse that vigorously plays the piano to wake kids up from anesthesia

"His eyebrows grew thick and the way one brow was raised, combined with the side slip of his mouth, made him look like some shrewd man about to pick up a faulty rifle, hit the bull's-eye five times running at a fair, and moan afterwards." - Pritchett, "When My Girl Comes Home"

“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” I talked with my friend Megan Quigley, modernism scholar extraordinaire, about T. S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Total dream of a conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/2oIzEN…

"She was sitting up in bed, and she had the pleased, shining, new, ashamed look, rather wet and cunning, of a golden spaniel that has been dressed up in shawls by children and is presently going to make a bolt for it into the garden." - V. S. Pritchett, "Citizen"

My July column for Commonweal Magazine about Fanny Howe and Chloe Garcia Roberts commonwealmagazine.org/bookmarks-tony…

"The stories play out in an America that feels inhabited exclusively by souls troubled by some half-remembered truth." Nicholas Russell on the fiction of Joy Williams: commonwealmagazine.org/passing-away-t…

I wrote on translation and unmaking in the lyric essays of Chloe Garcia Roberts for Commonweal Magazine commonwealmagazine.org/bookmarks-tony…

“Things then did not delay in turning curious.” - “The Crying of Lot 49”

"Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth." - "The Crying of Lot 49"

i love you Richard Brody. everybody must read this. newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

"He always spoke in an alert, exhausted way about women, like someone at a shoot waiting for the birds to come over." - V. S. Pritchett, "The Key to My Heart"

From Quentin Bell's life of Ruskin, and a perfect example of why I love concise biographies as opposed to doorstoppers (although I love doorstoppers too):

"Is that so?" said Mr. Armitage. "I'm afraid he has an unpunctuated moral sense." - V. S. Pritchett, "Blind Love"

My friend is a French aristocrat, highly cultured, luxurious Paris apartment, jewel-encrusted tortoise. Legit does not want to find a gf but instead seeks ever more refined aesthetic experiences

"His face looked like a white blown-out paper bag." - V. S. Pritchett, "A Debt of Honour"

"Deep. Sinister. And they're all in on it together." "Too paranoid for you?" "Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much." - Thomas Pynchon, "Bleeding Edge"

"It was a dogma in the minds of both sisters that they were (in different but absolute ways) who they were, what they were, on their own and immovable in unwisdom. This was their gift, the reward for a childhood that had punished them." - V. S. Pritchett, "The Cage Birds"

"It was one of the calamities of old age that one's memory went and one forgot a quite considerable number of exasperations and awful things in which, contrary to general expectation, one had been startlingly right." - V. S. Pritchett, "The Skeleton"

This "journey among the believers & those who were trying in their imperfect & individual ways to accommodate and harness symbols of belief towards artistic ends left this one-time believer engaged & troubled & in fresh perplexity in the best possible way" nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…