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Andrew Ervin
@andrewervin.bsky.social
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Husband. Golden retriever’s human. Novelist. Critic. Ally. Grognard. Yunker. Philly sports fan. Adjunct educator.
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 9d
“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.”

My latest for LitHub:

lithub.com/tending-to-t...
Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work
In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 2d
a phillies baseball player stands on the field
ALT: a phillies baseball player stands on the field
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Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social · 2d
Did @andrewervin.bsky.social introduce Krasznahorkai to the American masses? (aka Philly alt weekly readers c. 2001)
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Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?
My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine mo…
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 2d
I might’ve been the first to review Krasznahorkai in America. Now up at LitHub:

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Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?
My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine mo…
lithub.com
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 2d
lithub.com/is-this-the-...
Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?
My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine mo…
lithub.com
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 2d
That sounds right. Thanks.
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 2d
Hey @samadams.bsky.social were you my editor for this in Jan. 2001?
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 3d
I’m very happy to see Krasznahorkai win it. In 2001, having recently moved back from Budapest, I published what was probably his first American review. It was in the now defunct Philly City Paper.
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 3d
How’d that series turn out?
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 3d
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Chase Utley.
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 3d
David Grossman would be a great choice
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 3d
For the record, and I quote: “Gunter gleiben glauchen globen.”
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 3d
I wonder if David Grossman is going to win the Nobel Prize tomorrow.
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 5d
This one isn’t over but if any team shows up in Philly and takes the first two games you have to give them credit
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 6d
I have a Kinks record playing and it’s so much better than listening to the game.
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 7d
Game night pizza
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 7d
ha!
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 7d
My Nobel prize prediction: Andrey Kurkov or Helen Garner
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 7d
The Dodgers are a bunch of jabronis and crumb bums.
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Philadelphia Phillies (Bot) @notphillies.bsky.social · 7d
Locked and loaded

#RedOctober
Phillies lineup, October 4 vs. Dodgers, NLDS Game 1. 6:38pm game time on TBS/94WIP. Turner SS Schwarber DH Harper 1B Bohm 3B Marsh LF Realmuto C Kepler RF Bader CF Stott 2B Sánchez LHP
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you for reading it
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 8d
@andrewervin.bsky.social looks for answers to (impossible) questions about American democracy in recent books by Luke Kemp and Richard Mabey.
Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work
In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…
buff.ly
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 9d
“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.”

My latest for LitHub:

lithub.com/tending-to-t...
Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work
In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…
lithub.com
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 9d
The end of the Cubs-Padres game was an utter travesty. Wow.
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 13d
I’m disappointed in Bill Burr
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Andrew Ervin @andrewervin.bsky.social · 13d
Honestly, I don’t like badmouthing other sports franchises, only my own, but the Mets were such absolute dicks last fall.
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Absolutely Hammered @ahpod.bsky.social · 13d
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