Jé Wilson

That Sinking Feeling | Jé Wilson Memoirs of survival at sea plunge the reader deep into the heart of human nature.

Wrote about sailors, life rafts, and fish for the Dec 18th Holiday Issue of @nybooks.com

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

“Was this one-eyed fish a revolutionary capable of awakening the carp population from their sloth? If so, what a glorious example of character in fish!”

This odd little book has not disappointed.

reposting, rather

Robert Fludd's black square from 1617

To sum up the timeline instead of retweeting it all, it's this to infinity now

Good to know!! Evidence is mounting for a once flourishing existence of the towel bathrobe

In old movies, the bathrobe is something you put on when you're sopping wet. Is this because of filming constraints (too much nudity/awkwardness/time involved in toweling off within the scene) or were bathrobes a different breed of thing in the 1940/50s? My fav, from Young Man w/ a Horn:

Real Misfits in Real Gardens | Jé Wilson The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.

“Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities...at the margins of society—in industrial suburbs, on isolated farms, beside disused railway tracks, and in other places not claimed by the prosperous.” —Jé Wilson

Real Misfits in Real Gardens | Jé Wilson The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.

Some other movies to think about.. I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher, esp. La Chimera, for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Real Misfits in Real Gardens | Jé Wilson The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.

Some other movies to think about.. I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher, esp. La Chimera, for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

My favorite time on the other site was a couple of years ago when people wrote in describing their deranged and terrifying salvia trips. I saved a bunch of them for posterity, i.e., here. Happy New Year.

Impossible not to picture the stylish but illegal one

Not rude! I fully endorse private thanks. I'm all for getting rid of the acknowledgments section.

Wrote about Barbara Comyns

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

In costume news, just encountered an alluring-verging-on-sexy Great Pacific Garbage Patch

thank *you* for doing this!

yep, i couldn’t resist the cause. good luck with the weights!

They're moving in

Found one riding the subway. At first I thought "they've won" but if anything can slow the spread of lanternflies, it's the MTA

If you're going to get panned by Musil, get panned for your "moospolstrigen Stil"

It's in Ellen Harvey's Disappointed Tourist project @greg.org
www.disappointedtourist.org/view-paintin...

It's in Ellen Harvey's Disappointed Tourist project @greg.org
www.disappointedtourist.org/view-paintin...

Thanks!

Even the dogs in Chekhov are Chekhovian & say things like "Yes, at times I suffer unbearably, but please excuse it"

"One should almost be able to reverse back and front of anything but a jacket; as the French and some Italians cut a shoe that fits either foot."

Marianne Moore's advice in Women’s Wear Daily, 1965: "The best cosmetic is lemon juice and sour cream (or fresh). Hair should not be synonymous with a hurricane." Armholes should be "roomy but snug." Esquire asks her what her "most paradoxical quality" is: "Like to be inconspicuous but look well."

One nostril means Latin, the other means Greek..
allpoetry.com/Queer-Things

I'm sure I will!

haha, yes. next book! am looking forward to your current one btw ... keeping an eye on the post.