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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 11d

Accessible but veiled.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · 26d

Letter to a friend.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Aug 12

Your Malkasten is lovely.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Aug 3

Be glad: the house is mined, it will fall.

- Robinson Jeffers
The Broken Balance

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 31

&, speaking of Shattuck, did you see this?
www.nyrb.com/products/the...

The Forbidden Experiment

“Before dawn on January 9, 1800, a remarkable creature came out of the woods near the village of Saint-Sernin in southern France.” So begins Roger Shattuck’s book about the so-called Wild Boy of Aveyr...

www.nyrb.com

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you, Kim!

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 31

Absolutely! There is also this one, Satie Remembered – which is quite wonderful (but strangely not part of Penman's bibliography).

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 29

Same here, a little nervous (even though I really liked his Fassbinder book last year). Yes, "a delight" sums it up, so far.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 29

2/3 through I am loving it.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 21

My painting "No Omen but Awe" is on view at the permanent collection gallery at the Bolinas Museum. Come west & stop by.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you for your comment, Neal. Yes, "a spell across the day" & all days.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 19

Very few get the biographer they deserve—R. Crumb got lucky. Dan Nadel's wonderfully candid chronicle does not recoil, moralize, or whitewash. It's my book of the month at the New Museum. @newmuseum.bsky.social.

Full review here:
www.newmuseum.org/articles/boo...

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jul 14

Edward Gorey, who painted his toenails black on the day Gertrude Stein died.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jun 21

A mighty fine book.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Jun 21

"...a handful of dust." || Postcard to a friend.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · May 30

And I the apparition, I the spectre.

- Whitman

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · May 29

This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night.
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Man was not to be associated with it.

– Thoreau, The Maine Woods

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · May 25

Thank you, Kim. Such a special place.

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Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social · May 23

If you find yourself in New York City, please stop by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in Tribeca to see Louise Despont's beautiful solo exhibition—Afterlifes. I'm working on a book with Louise & wrote the exhibition's accompanying text, which can be found here:

nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/...

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · May 6

For k.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · May 6

Speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken.

- George Eliot

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · May 3

Yuri Knorozov, who studied Mayan hieroglyphic writing.
Why is there no book about him?

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ha. Thanks, Neal. Cioran's fervent pessimism inspires as antidote. Like anti-venom to cure a snake bite. Much more effective than those self-help titles everywhere...
But some snake bites last forever.

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Apr 18

Got myself some birthday presents @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social

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Herbert Pföstl @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social · Apr 1

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