Bryan Alistair Charles

Dictionnaire Marcel Proust.

Madeleine entry from Dictionnaire Marcel Proust.

Dictionnaire Marcel Proust. Another birthday treat from Moe's. (Cool part is I have loads of credit there just now so it was a freebie!)

Thanks to @insearchofproust.bsky.social for the heads up!
#booksky
#Proust

Looks like I'll be going back tomorrow!

That must be in the rare book room!
You have a copy of that (or something similar) in English don't you?

Ah très beau !! Thank you! (Moe's has a robust selection of used French novels, often one or two by George Sand... I always hope I will find François le Champi but no joy so far--)

Marcel Proust biography by Jean-Yves Tadié

First page of Jean-Yves Tadié's Proust biography in French.

I have read this one in English but could not resist picking it up in the original French when I saw it today on birthday outing at Moe's, one of the world's great bookstores.
#Proust
#booksky

Love this one.

So cool! Starts on my birthday! I would love to pop in sometime too.

I was thinking about your post, dug out my ancient Vintage paperback with the spooky cover, and of course there it is "Mother" (translator Stuart Gilbert ... same guy who did Ulysses guide???).

I am a diehard Blackwing 602 guy, but I must say you got me interested in maybe trying a Ticonderoga #2 again!

Jamie! Great to hear from you! We definitely were cracking up. I'm a writer too & at a certain point my wife whispered of @danielsilvabooks.bsky.social, "I think he's more neurotic than you!" 😂 We both read the new book straight away & loved it. Hope to see you again. Cheers!

A couple of months ago in a coffee shop in Oakland a guy approached me and said, Sorry to bother you, I'm a huge fan of your work.
I hesitated. he said, Are you Daniel Clowes?
I said no, and he apologized and retreated. Both of us embarrassed. I left a few minutes later.

Usually I do too! But the fact that it is Kmart, and that date, the week of 9/11, though obviously placed there before...for numerous reasons everything about it hits hard!

A copy of 2001 mass-market reissue of THE TALISMAN.

This sticker on my copy of THE TALISMAN always cuts me to the bone. @stephenking.bsky.social

10 pages a day is a lovely way to do it!

Cover of THE CRACK-UP, a zine by Bryan Alistair Charles

Page 1 of THE CRACK-UP, a zine by Bryan Alistair Charles

My zine THE CRACK-UP is now available.
Bits of poetry, dreams, cut-ups, movies--
Besotted by #Proust, haunted by 9/11.
To order a copy send $5 to:
The Crack-Up
PO Box 1512
Alameda, CA 94501
#booksky #zines #DIY

There I am!

Sadie Stein summer book recommendation from NY Times.

Sadie Stein summer book recommendation from NY Times.

Nice to see this in today's NY times. Thank you Sadie Stein.
@3313books.bsky.social
#pavements
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/i...
boys are dying on these streets....

These days I always go for new releases on CD--got tired of every album regardless of length being double vinyl for $40.

Ah! I have many CDs with faded McKay's stickers from my time in Knoxville...

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow--Nostradamus movie starring / narrated by Orson Welles. In Gull Lake Intermediate school library circa 85/86.

I found what looks like that same edition, minus the sleeve, in a second hand bookshop in Milan for €20!

That's the one...très beau, et bonne lecture !

Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni in LA NOTTE.

Marcello Mastroianni and Monica Vitti in LA NOTTE.

It is hard to imagine a more gorgeous screen couple than Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni in La Notte. Add Monica Vitti in the second half of the picture and the scale essentially shatters.
#filmsky

YouTube video by SqueezeVEVO Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (Live At The Regal Theatre, Hitchin / 1982)

I agree! The composition is bonkers. A while back I found this version. (I frankly did not realize they rocked this hard, and while nailing every note and melody.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbx_...

J'ai hâte !!

La scène de la fête !!!

Page from a zine called THE CRACK-UP

I made a zine THE CRACK-UP, old school, typewriters, pencil, cut ups, glue sticks...Here is page 11 w/ my kid's drawing of me in apparently very common position, lying down reading #Proust
#zines

Missed that! But my friend Troy's raised Stockton CA hat gets a second of glory as well. We were at that first LA show.

Thought that was you I glimpsed singing along with Cream of Gold.....

Brad Pitt is the crafty aging veteran w/ semi-tragic past who never lived up to his potential.
Damson Idris plays the arrogant rookie who is oozing talent but has much to learn.
Together they must find a way to work together to win the big race and keep team from getting sold.
#filmsky