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Brian Vales
@brian-vales.bsky.social
who teaches English at
Lycée Condorcet Paris 9e
will not be joining
the cult of Donna Tartt
17.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Statistic:
Out of about 102,000 words in
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
7 = "vibe(s)" / 1 = "algorithm"
Not-quoted-per-se status = 4 instances of vibe
The 1 instance of "algorithm" happens to quote Tartt
Fancy that one … @penny.hailey.at
13.02.2026 22:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social goes
insane w Claude Code to hack out
a slice-and-dice on the lit establishment –
sinykin.substack.com/p/power-rank...
– Donna Tartt unsurprisingly does not make
it onto his "weird" list of the Power FiftyOne
( obvs how a Maecenas obviates the NEA )
08.02.2026 06:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of those scarcer entries for
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered and Described
where writing up the description
felt more like joy than job
#booksky
04.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking Beneath the Surface of Superficiality
On Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
The Secret History / Donna Tartt as
« a narrative that is less concerned with what happens
than with how longing transforms perception »
Last week from
Sarah Maria Lillig
this 1254-word essay
sarahmarialillig.substack.com/p/looking-be...
#booksky
04.02.2026 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
«The Secret History» by Donna Tartt (1992)
is the origin … of this book …
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Happy P-Day to Classicist Sophie Mills
2 February 2026
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Puzzle: Can you spot the textual error in
the Seducers paragraph? Hint: metathesis
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#booksky
02.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Donna Tartt
hot-pink blurbed for
Edward St. Aubyn
#booksky
01.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
… I Want to Burn this Place Down …
Maybe that resonant title
activated the author-bot because
Tartt once posed « Tribulation »
as a title possibility
for The Little Friend (2002) ?
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Tribulation being
the burned-down Mississippi Tara
that housed the Cleve family
back when
30.01.2026 19:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
resonates with
The Secret History / Donna Tartt (1992)
28.01.2026 23:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Suburban Mayhem (2006)
resonates with
The Secret History / Donna Tartt (1992)
• Whydunnit
• Two murders
• Oblique incest
[ More details in following reply-skeet ]
www.imdb.com/title/tt0450...
#booksky
28.01.2026 23:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
✣✣✣ in 2025 ✢✣✣
Ruan Felipe Madela Lima
orcid.org/0009-0008-63...
published two unusually useful
academic articles about
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
25.01.2026 17:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bunny the antagonist
turns into protagonist
because Richard is so not there
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The Secret History / Donna Tartt
22.01.2026 07:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is Dark Academia dying?
Rip.
since Sarah Purnell intuits
sunset for Dark Academia
I'll keep an eye peeled
for scarier waning glimmers
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thedarkacademicalsbookclub.substack.com/p/is-dark-ac...
22.01.2026 06:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
... and I'll be interested in your thesis ...
To show format, sample entry below –
a fairly early thesis, easily found,
subsequently cited by other writers
21.01.2026 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"often"
No basis for saying that
according to my findings
21.01.2026 19:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ultraviolet seems to own the spectrum
for covers of books about
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
(and English not the language)
#booksky
20.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The section for "theses"
(ranging from college course essay to PhD)
in Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
right now lists 80-90 items
Many (most?) of them are not in English
You have lots of company
Quite a few are MAs
20.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The newest one that I know of
Il Foglio skeeted it on 15 Sept 2025
20.01.2026 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
citation
First thought about your topic was
Tartt leans more to Victorian than to Romantic?
... Stevenson, Wilde, Rimbaud ...
Then this happened to show up today
(with a monster paywall)
20.01.2026 07:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Searching for sources is hard work
and "the internet" so often
buries what you look for
very deep indeed
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Calluses on the fingertips 🖐️
20.01.2026 01:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Forthcoming Catalogue of Phenomena Generated by Readings of “Donna Tartt”
Announcement via Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
I'm not aware of any published translation into English.
Even so, I have just finished reading the entire book.
(German is the closest I come to Swedish.)
Quite attractive as a physical volume.
Longish entry just written for the forthcoming
Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
19.01.2026 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Experiment:
Use Gemini as an AI bibliographical assistant
Testbed Question:
Find the 2025 essays about Donna Tartt
Conclusion:
Gemini is a tiny clod of sod for a patient plower to bust
#booksky
11.01.2026 23:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
... unwrapped & rapt ...
Christmas Day 2025
this year Sweden published a book about
The Secret History / Donna Tartt
👍 Moa Ekbom 👍 @quosego.bsky.social 👍
#booksky
25.12.2025 22:57 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Donna Tartt talks to Antonio Monda
www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2025...
11.10.2025 23:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Immer unwahrscheinlicher, weil sie nur über das Erwachsenwerden schreiben kann?
05.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Your DNF
My for sure never reread
10.09.2025 02:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
These July & September skeets
from @lizthegringa.bsky.social
map a corner of Tarttlandia
more usefully than
so many of the earnest essays
... Donna Tartt ...
#booksky
06.09.2025 23:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dark Academia in Early 1990s New York City
The Addiction Jostles The Secret History
To illustrate research perspectives
made possible by the forthcoming
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Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena
999+ Sources Discovered & Described
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My new longish essay –
Dark Academia in Early 1990s New York City
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#booksky #blackbooksky #vampires
medium.com/@tartt-abc/d...
30.07.2025 21:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Likely the first fake DT on Bluesky
seems destined to stay best ever
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Ludically it was selling nothing
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The follows soared Nov-Dec 2024
Then came the takedown
bsky.app/profile/tart...
29.07.2025 22:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
