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Ryan Roberts
@biblioryan.bsky.social
Community College Librarian, Bibliographer, Book Collector, Julian Barnes aficionado
January 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Reposted by Ryan Roberts
“People suspicious of change frowned on the Whole Foods erected...on 125th Street. Why shouldn’t Harlem have what most of Manhattan took for granted, other people answered. Harlem’s rehabilitation was in becoming like everywhere else.” —Darryl Pinckney
Baldwin’s Spell | Darryl Pinckney
In James Baldwin’s writing and public appearances, the social and personal, the spoken and written dissolve into one.
www.nybooks.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Reposted by Ryan Roberts
great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.
January 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Visited the light show at the Chicago Botanic Gardens and took some photos of some of the more interesting light displays.

#visualarts #photosky
December 18, 2024 at 12:31 AM
I enjoy when fun books arrive in the mail from distant countries. The simple pleasures of a bibliographer …

#julianbarnes #booksky #bibliography
December 18, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Haven’t purchased many graphic novels recently. Besides Ducks and the new Chris Ware (and based on my liking nearly all that you see here), what am I missing? #graphicnovels
December 2, 2024 at 8:25 PM
People should follow @msrachelcooke.bsky.social because she’s a wonderful writer and a lovely person.
December 2, 2024 at 8:20 PM
November 26, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Shelf of books written by English poet, critic, editor, and biographer Ian Hamilton. His poetry pamphlets are too thin to be noticed here, but perhaps I’ll post those separately? Anyone interested in seeing such things?

💙📚 #booksky #ianhamilton #jdsalinger #poetry
November 20, 2024 at 3:22 AM
We like books here, yes? Well, here’s a portion of one shelf mostly dedicated to different editions of Julian Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending. Book collecting is a disease, I’m told. 💙📚

#booksky #julianbarnes #bibliomania
November 17, 2024 at 5:19 AM
This sculpture stuns me. Such beauty …

[Antonio Corradini, Veiled Woman (circa 1717), Louvre] #sculpture #artsky #louvre
November 16, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Julian Barnes’s *The Noise of Time* is a good read during these dark times. The great composer Shostakovich facing creative and personal dilemmas while living in Stalinist Russia. Totalitarianism pitted against artistic expression. #julianbarnes #tyranny #shostakovich
November 13, 2024 at 11:38 PM
If you haven’t read *Burning the Books* by Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social, now is the time. I don’t imagine the attacks to libraries, free thought, or books in general will stop anytime soon.

#Booksky #BookBanning #Libraries
November 13, 2024 at 1:46 PM
I either read or listen to the audiobook of Julian Barnes’s *Nothing to Be Frightened of* every other year. It offers an engaging and honest view of death, religion, and family relationships. Life altering. #julianbarnes #death
November 13, 2024 at 3:22 AM