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Kovalam. Martin Parr. 2016.

December 1, 2024 at 10:39 AM

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A successful Thanksgiving experiment: cranberry sauce lightly tadka-fied with beurre noisette, itself spiked with red chili flakes and (alors!) a pinch of hing. My girls, exacting critics both, ready to award me the cordon bleh without a second thought, signalled their satisfaction with silent nods.

December 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM

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Lit Hub

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Georgi Gospodinov and his translator, Angela Rodel, discuss loss and writing about death.

Georgi Gospodinov on the Loss of His Father and Writing About Death

Georgi Gospodinov is one of Bulgaria’s most prolific authors. He is the recipient of the International Booker Prize, the Premio Strega, and the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, among many other …

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November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Kawase Hasui. Pulguk Temple at Kyongju. September, 1939.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulguksa

December 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM

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Ragam Chandrakauns. Sanjay Subrahmanyan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyac...

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December 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM

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Ragam Mayamalavagaula. T. M. Krishna.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGrD...

TM Krishna: Ragam Mayamalavagaula

YouTube video by First Edition Arts Channel

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November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM

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R S Thomas (poet)

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‘The Presence’ - #RSThomas
(Between Here and Now, Macmillan)
#YPresenoldeb #ThePresence
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem -

The Presence.
I pray and incur silence. Some take that silence for refusal.
I feel the power
that, invisible, catches me by the sleeve, nudging
towards the long shelf
that has the book on it I will take down
and read and find the antidote
to an ailment.
I know its ways with me;
how it enters my life,
is present rather
before I perceive it, sunlight quivering on a bare wall.
Is it consciousness trying
to get through?
Am I under
regard?
It takes me seconds
to focus, by which time
it has shifted its gaze,
looking a little to one
side, as though I were not here.
It has the universe
to be abroad in.
There is nothing I can do but fill myself with my own
silence, hoping it will approach like a wild creature to drink
there, or perhaps like Narcissus
to linger a moment over its transparent face.

November 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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Le Gibet, from Gaspard de la Nuit. Maurice Ravel, composer. Martha Argerich, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNQ2...

Martha Argerich Gaspard de la nuit II. Le Gibet

YouTube video by martha argerich

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November 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM

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Updike's letters are a terrific read. I am just at the Harvard stage where he sounds like Psmith in the City, his prose performative even when writing to his parents and grandparents—precocity has its price. He did consume a lot of Wodehouse in his school days, I read elsewhere, but avoids pastiche.

The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 19d

"Updike simply had it: an instinctive feeling for the shape of American sentences, for the murmuring music of nouns and verbs and the way they could pin reality to the page."

John Updike's intimate voice:

John Updike's intimate voice

The novelist’s collected correspondence reveals a narrative of striving, sex and success

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November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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One has no weathered grave to visit; only an ashen mirror in which one is held again in that remembered gaze. One marks the passing in conjunctions of moon, sun, and star; in rituals of rice and sesame, flower and scent of sandal: knowing as he was, so you are, and as he is not, so shall you not be.

November 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM

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Autumn Song. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer. Martha Argerich, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNR...

MARTHA ARGERICH - TCHAIKOVSKY "OCTOBER" "THE SEASONS" - (МАРТА АРГЕРИХ - ЧАЙКОВСКИЙ "ОСЕННЯЯ ПЕСНЬ"

YouTube video by Polly-Сlassic

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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM

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Autumn. Manhattan.

November 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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Autumn Song. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer. Igor Zhukov, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyC5...

The Seasons, Op.37b: October: Autumn's Song

YouTube video by Igor Zhukov - Topic

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November 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM

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A Blown-away Leaf. From 'An Overgrown Path'. Leoš Janáček, composer. Radoslav Kvapil, piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLxB...

An Overgrown Path, JW 8/17 Book 1: No. 2, A Blown-Away Leaf

YouTube video by Radoslav Kvapil - Topic

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November 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM

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Les Sons Et Les Parfums Tournent Dans L'air Du Soir. Claude Debussy, composer. Ivan Moravec, piano.
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1967 - Ivan Moravec - Debussy - Les Sons Et Les Parfums Tournent Dans L'air Du Soir

YouTube video by MJ's Vinyl Channel

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November 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM

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La Terrasse Des Audiences Du Clair De Lune. Claude Debussy, composer. Ivan Moravec, piano.
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1967 - Ivan Moravec - Debussy - La Terrasse Des Audiences Du Clair De Lune

YouTube video by MJ's Vinyl Channel

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November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM

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Autumn ablaze. New Jersey.

November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM

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London Review of Books

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‘To Murch, who has won three Academy Awards and been nominated for six more, film editing is a sensual “full-body” experience: “a kind of dance, a choreography of images and sounds in the flow of time, forged in movement, eventually crystallising into permanence”.’

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John Lahr · Every Blink: Walter Murch makes the cut

The film frame is both Walter Murch’s canvas and his found object. In his editing suite, whether mechanical or digital...

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October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM

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R S Thomas (poet)

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‘The Seasons’ - #RSThomas
(Mass for Hard Times, @BloodaxeBooks)
#Hydref #Autumn
#Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd
#Poet #Poetry #Poem

Text of poem -

Autumn.
Happy the leaves burnishing their own downfall. Life dances upon life's grave.
It is we who inject
sadness into the migrant's cry. We are so long in dying - time granted to discover a purpose in our decay? Could we be cut open, would there be more than the saw's wound, all humanity's rings widening only towards ageing?
To creep in for shelter under the bone's tree is to be charred by time's lightning stroke. The leaves fall variously as do thoughts to reveal the bareness of the mind's landscape
through which we must press on towards the openness of its horizons.

October 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM

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Early autumn. Manhattan.

October 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM

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Kate Teltscher

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The Chinese fan palm and cobra lily by Vishnuprasad from Henry Noltie’s Flora Indica, a masterpiece of botanical-art-historical detective work.
The book accompanies a stunning exhibition at Kew Gardens.
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