Mark Sarvas
@marksarvas.bsky.social
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
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“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
— Tom Stoppard.
— Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
— Tom Stoppard.
— Tom Stoppard.
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Vintage Stoppard as performed by Oldman & Roth. Delightful stuff. youtu.be/u3xIs0aajN4?...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Vintage Stoppard as performed by Oldman & Roth. Delightful stuff. youtu.be/u3xIs0aajN4?...
Devastated to learn of the passing of Tom Stoppard. Have seen every new play since The Real Thing and met him a couple of times. My letter to him is in his papers at the Ransom Center and we just booked a trip to see his Arcadia at the Old Vic. I adored his work. RIP
November 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Devastated to learn of the passing of Tom Stoppard. Have seen every new play since The Real Thing and met him a couple of times. My letter to him is in his papers at the Ransom Center and we just booked a trip to see his Arcadia at the Old Vic. I adored his work. RIP
Downgrading this take to pretty dopey fare, a C- at very best. Gets worse as it goes on.
Down Cemetery Road is a generic good time, elevated by its two leads.
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Downgrading this take to pretty dopey fare, a C- at very best. Gets worse as it goes on.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
Fuck turkey. I made a chicken paprikash …
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Fuck turkey. I made a chicken paprikash …
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Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.
Do Trump next!
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Do Trump next!
Gonna make up some business cards that say "Wait, wait, wait" in case I ever meet IC ...
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Gonna make up some business cards that say "Wait, wait, wait" in case I ever meet IC ...
Share a '90s movie you think deserves more love ...
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Share a '90s movie you think deserves more love ...
Blood in the water. And please get rid of Gillibrand while you're cleaning house ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
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November 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Blood in the water. And please get rid of Gillibrand while you're cleaning house ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Newest addition to the family.
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Newest addition to the family.
I think Comey is a prig and a martinet ... BUT ... quite pleased to see this, obviously.
A federal judge has ruled that former insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan was invalidly appointed as interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and has dismissed the indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Comey and James Cases Dismissed Over Halligan’s Invalid Appointment
A federal judge has ruled that former insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan was...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I think Comey is a prig and a martinet ... BUT ... quite pleased to see this, obviously.
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Derek Mahon, born on this day in 1941
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Derek Mahon, born on this day in 1941
The Agency is a much better series than Slow Horses.
Discuss.
Discuss.
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Agency is a much better series than Slow Horses.
Discuss.
Discuss.
"We believed that a taste for ambiguity can make for a decent feast, and I admired the two-mindedness of my friends, resisting the masks of resolution."
- On Friendship, Andrew O'Hagan (@faberbooks.bsky.social)
- On Friendship, Andrew O'Hagan (@faberbooks.bsky.social)
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"We believed that a taste for ambiguity can make for a decent feast, and I admired the two-mindedness of my friends, resisting the masks of resolution."
- On Friendship, Andrew O'Hagan (@faberbooks.bsky.social)
- On Friendship, Andrew O'Hagan (@faberbooks.bsky.social)
We visited Greenwich in October, where we got to see the progression of Harrison's clocks. The leap from number three to the portable number four was simply staggering to take in.
The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century
The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century
In the early eighteenth century, a pocket watch could keep reasonably accurate time, give or take a minute per day. This may not sound too bad, given how we now regard even the most advanced technolog...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
We visited Greenwich in October, where we got to see the progression of Harrison's clocks. The leap from number three to the portable number four was simply staggering to take in.
Saw this in October and loved every moment of it. This profile is the next best thing to being there ...
Although the audiences filling the Noël Coward Theatre for Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” may be lured by Stephen Fry’s celebrity, “they stay for Wilde’s wit, and for Fry’s powers in embodying it,” Rebecca Mead writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/m50fOK
Stephen Fry Is Wilde at Heart
The polymathic entertainer has had a lifelong bond with the wittiest—and the most tortured—of writers. And now he’s starring in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
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November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Saw this in October and loved every moment of it. This profile is the next best thing to being there ...
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I am not paying Ryan Lizza for that
absolutely the fuck not
absolutely the fuck not
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I am not paying Ryan Lizza for that
absolutely the fuck not
absolutely the fuck not
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ryan lizza is a bad person
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
ryan lizza is a bad person
My periodic rant that it's FUCKING CRIMINAL that you cannot seem to stream Jon Amiel's TUNE IN TOMORROW on any service known to humankind.
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
My periodic rant that it's FUCKING CRIMINAL that you cannot seem to stream Jon Amiel's TUNE IN TOMORROW on any service known to humankind.
I think I might be the only Beatles fan who prefers Real Love to Free as a Bird ...
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I think I might be the only Beatles fan who prefers Real Love to Free as a Bird ...
Cleared my desk of all obligations today so I can give Anthology 4 the attentive listening it deserves. (In My Life Take 1 is already a highlight ... )
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Cleared my desk of all obligations today so I can give Anthology 4 the attentive listening it deserves. (In My Life Take 1 is already a highlight ... )
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Is literature, as Philip Roth once prophesied, now a “cultic” concern? Writers from around the world weigh in.
Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum
There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Is literature, as Philip Roth once prophesied, now a “cultic” concern? Writers from around the world weigh in.