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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 2d

On my porch.

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 2d

His parents. His poor damaged tattooed brother. A writer narrating an oral history of his own life.

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 2d

Energy - and (self) control? Is listening a way of manipulating? Wondering about this as I read these scenes where men seem to empty themselves. Fascinating how we women can do this.

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 2d

Mesmerizing how Cusk- via the N - lets men talk themselves into confessions, into pain, while she gives up - so far - very little about herself. Listening can become a kind of control.

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 2d

#APSTogether - This October - another guided read by the brilliant and sensitive Yiyun Li - Charles Dickens' Bleak House apstogether.substack.com/p/bleak-hous...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens: A Preview and Reading Schedule

Join us starting October 14 to read Bleak House by Charles Dickens with Yiyun Li

apstogether.substack.com

Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 3d

An essay LASZLO KRASZNAHORKAI wrote - archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....

Someone's Knocking at My Door

A Hungarian novelist awaits a visit from hate and violence personified.

archive.nytimes.com

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 3d

Makes me want to listen to it.

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 3d

#RachelCuskTogether - Have any of you read this year's Nobel prize winner? I have not. Yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

www.nytimes.com

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 5d

You didn’t know my mother.

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 5d

#RachelCuskTogether A small bomb goes off right here. Why does she engage, take on a stranger?
“I remained dissatisfied by the story of his second marriage. It had lacked objectivity; it relied too heavily on extremes, and the moral properties it ascribed to those extremes were often incorrect”

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 8d

Ha. Books relegated to supporting tchotchkes.

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 8d

She is reading him like a book.

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 9d

That’s saying a lot if it’s one of your favorite books as you are the most voracious reader I know! Next to @christina500.bsky.social :) And your mom.