Eric Passaglia

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*aesthetic

Love everything about this film: the leads, the noir esthetic, and of course the message

A ★★★★★ review of Nouvelle Vague (2025) Well, there was a lot riding on this. A Bout de Souffle has been my favourite film basically since I saw it: a vision of cinematic modernity and cool – cool as modernity, modernity as cool – that I re...

A first shot at a review of NOUVELLE VAGUE, Richard Linklater's homage to A Bout de Souffle, my favourite ever movie. Yeah, it's another 'love letter to cinema', but it's an intelligent document of clear-eyed devotion, written by an honest lover, to something that is genuinely worth loving.

New review: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑆𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 by Juvenal (tr. Peter Green (1967)) www.complete-review.com/reviews/lati...

Ah, thank you!

Which book is this from?

Excellent thread

They mulch you up, your mum and dad

SAITAMA—A Saitama prefectural assembly member came under fire after saying at an Oct. 1 session that “foreigners have no fundamental human rights” in Japan. Masahide Moroi, 56, later said his wording was insufficient due to time constraints, and that he may ask that the remark be stricken from the official record.

Next time I'm on the wrong side of an argument with my wife, I'm going to say "My wording was insufficient due to time constraints". (Moroi's actual comment on Twitter is 質問時間がない中での言葉足らずでありミスです。). www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

One of the best things I’ve done in my life is get poems by heart. Boring meetings/speeches/train delays/medical tests/surgery/chemo — all survivable by unreeling in my mind “The fountains are dry and the roses over” or “yagate shinu” or “Souvent, pour s’amuser” or “Call the roller of big cigars”…

When I told a friend of mine I was reading this he said, “Ah, the happy one!”

She’s great. I’d read some of her short stories in the 80s, but last year I read Another Marvelous Thing and was completely hooked. Now I’m happily reading ALL her books.

“I don't call it gossip," said Misty.
"I call it ‘emotional speculation.'”

—Laurie Colwin, Happy All the Time

Trollope is very sound on churches imo —
(maybe this is one for @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social too)

First edition of Yellow-Dog Contract by Ross Thomas

Bookseller label from Savile Book Shop on P Street in Washington DC. To steal a line from Howlin’ Wolf that he used in another context: “I’m not saying I’m a millionaire, but if I had all the money that I spent in Savile I’d be a millionaire many times over.”

Happy memory time:

Rereading a favorite Ross Thomas novel that bears the bookseller’s label from the long-gone Savile Book Shop in Washington DC.
IFKYK

Excerpt: “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS, in its hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations, may very well become one day the symbol of the decadence that hovers over contemporary literature.”

TESTIMONY AGAINST GERTRUDE STEIN, by Georges Braque, Eugene Jolas, Maria Jolas, Henri Matisse, André Salmon, Tristan Tzara. Published by Servire Press, February 1935

“hollow, tinsel bohemianism and egocentric deformations”

Sven was compact and well made, like a good canoe.

Laurie Colwin, A Big Storm Knocked It Over

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碁の音や芙蓉の花に灯のうつり　
go no oto ya fuyō no hana ni hi no utsuri

the sound of go —
reflection of light
on the hibiscus flower

— Masaoka Shiki

Shiki composed this haiku in 1898.

What’s Going On Marvin Gaye

Saturday morning music

Oh, true love can conquer hate every time
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime
And my darling, one more thing
If you let me, I will take you
To live where love is king

Old OUPs FTW

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Ivy Compton-Burnett

From this:

www.criterion.com/current/post...

Eric Hynes on a character in Errol Morris’s Gates of Heaven

“doltish sublimity” FTW

A passage from Vita Sackville-West’s All Passion Spent

“like little black anchors dropped”

Also from the NMWA today, the Guerrilla Girls in 1992. Same as it ever was.

The Palmist by Leonora Carrington

“The Palmist” by Leonora Carrington, for me one of the highlights today of the “Uncanny” exhibit at NMWA. Many thanks to @nonsuchbook.bsky.social for reminding me that the exhibition ends this weekend!

This is what people mean when they talk about LLMs: Local Literature Machines

Vending machine selling books by DC authors

Off Pennsylvania Avenue —DC authors