Colin Hamilton
@colinhamilton.bsky.social
Occassional writer (The Discarded, The Thirteenth Month). Collector of imaginary books, library lore, and other miscellany. Sucker for the spurious glamor of certain voids.
Bracing for first snow.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bracing for first snow.
From the age of 19, Anton Chekov provided for his family. And others too. He helped found clinics, hospitals, schools, and libraries. He wrote hundreds of stories, thousands of letters, including one that read, “There is a great crocodile ensconced within you, Lika.”
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
By Viv Groskop
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Chekhov at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature
By Viv Groskop
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Chekhov at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
From the age of 19, Anton Chekov provided for his family. And others too. He helped found clinics, hospitals, schools, and libraries. He wrote hundreds of stories, thousands of letters, including one that read, “There is a great crocodile ensconced within you, Lika.”
“The emptier a room the smaller it seems. This is true of minds as well.”
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“The emptier a room the smaller it seems. This is true of minds as well.”
Terrific book, but probably due for a second edition.
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Terrific book, but probably due for a second edition.
@revelliterary.bsky.social, if the writing is equal to the production, this will be amazing. What a beautifully produced magazine. Why we still love the printed word. #books #booksky
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@revelliterary.bsky.social, if the writing is equal to the production, this will be amazing. What a beautifully produced magazine. Why we still love the printed word. #books #booksky
Reposted by Colin Hamilton
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public media as you may not have seen in before. Oliver makes a compelling case that it goes far beyond NPR and PBS, and that what local stations mean to local communities is irreplaceable. @lastweektonight.com #publicmedia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Public media as you may not have seen in before. Oliver makes a compelling case that it goes far beyond NPR and PBS, and that what local stations mean to local communities is irreplaceable. @lastweektonight.com #publicmedia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
www.theparisreview.org/letters-essa... Paris Review Newsletter
The Ceaseless Murmuring of Innumerable Bees by Eliot Weinberger
“The bee has no time for sorrow”
www.theparisreview.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
www.theparisreview.org/letters-essa... Paris Review Newsletter
“I am dying. I haven’t drunk champagne for a long time.” The causal relationship between Anton Chekhov’s last words intrigues.
Hope you don't mind the shout out, @dseuss.bsky.social
Hope you don't mind the shout out, @dseuss.bsky.social
“He refused to give his death a name, but it knew his."
From “The Spurious Glamor of Certain Voids," a new original essay by @colinhamilton.bsky.social about the death of authors.
➡️ buff.ly/SOJr5ua
From “The Spurious Glamor of Certain Voids," a new original essay by @colinhamilton.bsky.social about the death of authors.
➡️ buff.ly/SOJr5ua
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“I am dying. I haven’t drunk champagne for a long time.” The causal relationship between Anton Chekhov’s last words intrigues.
Hope you don't mind the shout out, @dseuss.bsky.social
Hope you don't mind the shout out, @dseuss.bsky.social
Japan now produces more nappies for incontinent adults than for infants. #signsoftheapocolypse www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Japan now produces more nappies for incontinent adults than for infants. #signsoftheapocolypse www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tennessee Williams specified in his will that he should be sewn up in a canvas sack and buried at sea as close as possible to the site where Hart Crane drowned.
Tennessee Williams is buried in a St. Louis cemetery near his mother.
Tennessee Williams is buried in a St. Louis cemetery near his mother.
“He refused to give his death a name, but it knew his."
From “The Spurious Glamor of Certain Voids," a new original essay by @colinhamilton.bsky.social about the death of authors.
➡️ buff.ly/SOJr5ua
From “The Spurious Glamor of Certain Voids," a new original essay by @colinhamilton.bsky.social about the death of authors.
➡️ buff.ly/SOJr5ua
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Tennessee Williams specified in his will that he should be sewn up in a canvas sack and buried at sea as close as possible to the site where Hart Crane drowned.
Tennessee Williams is buried in a St. Louis cemetery near his mother.
Tennessee Williams is buried in a St. Louis cemetery near his mother.
Don't we all love looking, as a wonderful poet observed, at dead things? A good season for that perspective. Thanks to @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social @mattweiland.bsky.social @therumpus.net. Companion piece from a WIP appearing soon in @revelliterary.bsky.social #booksky therumpus.net/2025/11/10/t...
The Spurious Glamor of Certain Voids - The Rumpus
Don’t we all love looking, Diane Seuss wondered, at dead things?
therumpus.net
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Don't we all love looking, as a wonderful poet observed, at dead things? A good season for that perspective. Thanks to @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social @mattweiland.bsky.social @therumpus.net. Companion piece from a WIP appearing soon in @revelliterary.bsky.social #booksky therumpus.net/2025/11/10/t...
“People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote ... “and develop an alienated view of the world.” ... Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“People read Foucault,” the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote ... “and develop an alienated view of the world.” ... Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
When Jack Gilbert’s first book won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, no one knew how to find him. No phone, no address, no trail. Eventually the brother-in-law of his ex-girlfriend tracked him down at an East Village squat. To celebrate, they went for milkshakes.
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
When Jack Gilbert’s first book won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, no one knew how to find him. No phone, no address, no trail. Eventually the brother-in-law of his ex-girlfriend tracked him down at an East Village squat. To celebrate, they went for milkshakes.
“We would spend the whole day doing nothing but criticizing poetry and talking about painting.” A nice life Shen Fu led.
October 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“We would spend the whole day doing nothing but criticizing poetry and talking about painting.” A nice life Shen Fu led.
A mostly tedious writer but fascinating character. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
Gore Vidal: American prophet
The writer understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
www.newstatesman.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A mostly tedious writer but fascinating character. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
Really? Adult content? A link to a wikipedia page "List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events". I think the kids can handle it.
Helpful perspective.
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia
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September 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Really? Adult content? A link to a wikipedia page "List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events". I think the kids can handle it.
Helpful perspective.
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Helpful perspective.
Every once in a while he nails it.
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
September 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Every once in a while he nails it.
This was a painful postcard to find a friend’s counter.
Although I say I am not going out with Colin, he doesn't seem to know it yet.
September 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This was a painful postcard to find a friend’s counter.
“If pure thought led anywhere but in circles he’d have solved the peeling since so it’s therefore time to act, but what is there to do …”
September 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“If pure thought led anywhere but in circles he’d have solved the peeling since so it’s therefore time to act, but what is there to do …”
I didn’t really get this when I read it in 2017. Or I wanted a repeat of his first book, which I love. Now … intrigued.
September 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I didn’t really get this when I read it in 2017. Or I wanted a repeat of his first book, which I love. Now … intrigued.
The Institute for Nonprofit News (inn.org) is a great resource for independent news alternatives that meet high standards, including financial transparency. Some 400+ member orgs all across America.
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Institute for Nonprofit News (inn.org) is a great resource for independent news alternatives that meet high standards, including financial transparency. Some 400+ member orgs all across America.