Dan Visel

His travel guides to Florence and Venice (the former of which is being read in A ROOM WITH A VIEW) are wildly catty about basically everyone, living or dead.

Oh fantastic! Thanks so much.

Is there a good way to pick this up in Europe? Does UWashington Press have non-American distribution?

Every copy finds its original eventually.

New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’ (Published 2021)

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There was a really good Edith Schloss memoir a couple of years ago – she connected such wildly diverse scenes!

YouTube video by Échangeurs d'airs Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1975)

add orchestration, maybe bring in Tom Waits if it does well enough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkC...

Penguin put out a 1300-page of a new translation of Eugène Sue's MYSTERIES OF PARIS a few years back – that's great! And a surprisingly quick read.

Furious George by Kim Beeman December 27, 2012 – George Leonard Herter ran a sporting-goods store in Waseca, Minnesota, by day and self-published bizarre cookbooks, travel guides, and hunting books by

My wife wrote about him long ago: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/12... – we somehow have most of his books, though someone ran off with the copy of THE TRUTH ABOUT HUNTING IN TODAY'S AFRICA, AND HOW TO GO ON SAFARI FOR $690.00. Pretty sure @paulcollins.bsky.social is still the expert?

Is there any hope for fixing the used book market online? Or is that just gone forever?

A bright yellow graphic with fireworks, the cover of Circumference, and text reading "Winner of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Magazines/General Excellence.”

The winner of the 2025 #FirecrackerAward in Magazines/General Excellence is @circumferencemag.bsky.social! circumferencemag.com

Jay Leyda really deserves a bio like this himself? He pops up in all sorts of odd places – he was Sergei Eisenstein's lover, for example.

Oh, New York people, I'll be around next week! And this weekend. Let me know if you want to meet up.

The Golden Horde by Nanni Balestrini and Primo Moroni | Seagull Books The Golden Horde is a definitive work on the Italian revolutionary movements of the 1960s and ’70s. An anthology of texts and fragments woven together with an original commentary, The Golden Horde wid...

Mostly from the left, there’s this monster: seagullbooks.org/products/the...

We’re governed by morons

“In his 1865 book Die Urwelt der Schweiz, Oswald Heer notes that Amanz Gressly, who had been admitted to an asylum in the final years of his life, had become tormented by hallucinations that he had transformed into the Gresslyosaurus, his namesake dinosaur” ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gressly... )

And probably you know, but it's worth poking into Joel Agee's AGATHE, which NYRB published a couple years ago? An alternate version. Marguerite Duras made a couple of very minimal film versions of the Ulrich/Agathe narrative—if I remember right, one is mostly a black screen that Duras talks over.

"Done" seems like the wrong word for that book? WWI keeps approaching, the reader knows the Parallel Campaign will never come into play, and the narrative fractures into a thousand drafts, none of which is really an ending.

There's an alternate history of that song that's maybe mostly forgotten – there was a José Feliciano version that did numbers, which was then I think covered by Al Green (on Al Green Gets Next To You), which is maybe why there's a reggae-inflected live version on the second Massive Attack album.

Have you seen Lloyd Bacon/Busby Berkeley's Wonder Bar (1934)? Mostly forgotten because of some deeply embarrassing Al Jolson racism, but that's in the context of a nightclub that's also putting on acts making fun of Russians (?) and tolerating gay people – the past is nothing if not confusing.

Is there a public archive of the Bangkok Post anywhere? A critical anthology of the Bangkok Post over time would be a deeply interesting book.

Can Raccoons Open Carabiners? Shocking Truth Raccoons are cute yet very intelligent and some times disturbing animals. In this article, we will discuss, Can Raccoons Open Carabiners?

Maybe this is just Big Pest Control trying to scare everyone, but they claim that raccoons do understand carabiners: pestcontrolweekly.net/can-raccoons...

Can I ask if "Roseneck" refers to the square near Dahlem?

My Virago paperbacks are still glaring at me from the shelf, maybe that'll be the year for 'em!

I think there's an Iris Murdoch novel about this.

Like Bruce Springsteen going uncredited on Lou Reed's "Street Hassle" – which it turns out Simple Minds covered? What a weird band.

This is really great!

Did they have the vertiginous mirrored room?

ANNIVERSARIES was very pleasant to read one day at a time for a year – though you have to remember to start in August (I think) so that you're matching.

That Kiefer show was in Florence and felt a little over-the-top? A non-Jewish German using a bunch of Hebrew and Jewish iconology seems . . . odd. But curious what you think.