Jé Wilson
@jewilsn.bsky.social
Wrote about sailors, life rafts, and fish for the Dec 18th Holiday Issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
That Sinking Feeling | Jé Wilson
Memoirs of survival at sea plunge the reader deep into the heart of human nature.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Wrote about sailors, life rafts, and fish for the Dec 18th Holiday Issue of @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
“Was this one-eyed fish a revolutionary capable of awakening the carp population from their sloth? If so, what a glorious example of character in fish!”
This odd little book has not disappointed.
This odd little book has not disappointed.
November 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Was this one-eyed fish a revolutionary capable of awakening the carp population from their sloth? If so, what a glorious example of character in fish!”
This odd little book has not disappointed.
This odd little book has not disappointed.
To sum up the timeline instead of retweeting it all, it's this to infinity now
April 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
To sum up the timeline instead of retweeting it all, it's this to infinity now
In old movies, the bathrobe is something you put on when you're sopping wet. Is this because of filming constraints (too much nudity/awkwardness/time involved in toweling off within the scene) or were bathrobes a different breed of thing in the 1940/50s? My fav, from Young Man w/ a Horn:
March 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
In old movies, the bathrobe is something you put on when you're sopping wet. Is this because of filming constraints (too much nudity/awkwardness/time involved in toweling off within the scene) or were bathrobes a different breed of thing in the 1940/50s? My fav, from Young Man w/ a Horn:
Reposted by Jé Wilson
“Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities...at the margins of society—in industrial suburbs, on isolated farms, beside disused railway tracks, and in other places not claimed by the prosperous.” —Jé Wilson
Real Misfits in Real Gardens | Jé Wilson
The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.
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February 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities...at the margins of society—in industrial suburbs, on isolated farms, beside disused railway tracks, and in other places not claimed by the prosperous.” —Jé Wilson
Reposted by Jé Wilson
Some other movies to think about.. I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher, esp. La Chimera, for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Real Misfits in Real Gardens | Jé Wilson
The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.
www.nybooks.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Some other movies to think about.. I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher, esp. La Chimera, for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Some other movies to think about.. I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher, esp. La Chimera, for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Real Misfits in Real Gardens | Jé Wilson
The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.
www.nybooks.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Some other movies to think about.. I wrote about Alice Rohrwacher, esp. La Chimera, for @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
My favorite time on the other site was a couple of years ago when people wrote in describing their deranged and terrifying salvia trips. I saved a bunch of them for posterity, i.e., here. Happy New Year.
January 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
My favorite time on the other site was a couple of years ago when people wrote in describing their deranged and terrifying salvia trips. I saved a bunch of them for posterity, i.e., here. Happy New Year.
Impossible not to picture the stylish but illegal one
November 21, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Impossible not to picture the stylish but illegal one
February 16, 2024 at 4:42 PM
In costume news, just encountered an alluring-verging-on-sexy Great Pacific Garbage Patch
October 23, 2023 at 6:42 PM
In costume news, just encountered an alluring-verging-on-sexy Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Found one riding the subway. At first I thought "they've won" but if anything can slow the spread of lanternflies, it's the MTA
October 3, 2023 at 7:42 PM
Found one riding the subway. At first I thought "they've won" but if anything can slow the spread of lanternflies, it's the MTA
If you're going to get panned by Musil, get panned for your "moospolstrigen Stil"
September 30, 2023 at 2:07 PM
If you're going to get panned by Musil, get panned for your "moospolstrigen Stil"
Reposted by Jé Wilson
It's in Ellen Harvey's Disappointed Tourist project @greg.org
www.disappointedtourist.org/view-paintin...
www.disappointedtourist.org/view-paintin...
September 29, 2023 at 12:02 PM
It's in Ellen Harvey's Disappointed Tourist project @greg.org
www.disappointedtourist.org/view-paintin...
www.disappointedtourist.org/view-paintin...
Even the dogs in Chekhov are Chekhovian & say things like "Yes, at times I suffer unbearably, but please excuse it"
September 24, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Even the dogs in Chekhov are Chekhovian & say things like "Yes, at times I suffer unbearably, but please excuse it"
Marianne Moore's advice in Women’s Wear Daily, 1965: "The best cosmetic is lemon juice and sour cream (or fresh). Hair should not be synonymous with a hurricane." Armholes should be "roomy but snug." Esquire asks her what her "most paradoxical quality" is: "Like to be inconspicuous but look well."
September 23, 2023 at 7:27 PM
Marianne Moore's advice in Women’s Wear Daily, 1965: "The best cosmetic is lemon juice and sour cream (or fresh). Hair should not be synonymous with a hurricane." Armholes should be "roomy but snug." Esquire asks her what her "most paradoxical quality" is: "Like to be inconspicuous but look well."
One nostril means Latin, the other means Greek..
allpoetry.com/Queer-Things
allpoetry.com/Queer-Things
September 22, 2023 at 4:33 PM
One nostril means Latin, the other means Greek..
allpoetry.com/Queer-Things
allpoetry.com/Queer-Things
“I am quite aware that the reader does not want to know all this; but I am bound to tell him.” Rousseau, apologizing for describing a room.
September 20, 2023 at 3:40 PM
“I am quite aware that the reader does not want to know all this; but I am bound to tell him.” Rousseau, apologizing for describing a room.
Charlotte Bronte, aged 34, writes to her dad about the animals she saw at the zoo: "Some of the American birds make inexpressible noises."
September 20, 2023 at 2:06 PM
Charlotte Bronte, aged 34, writes to her dad about the animals she saw at the zoo: "Some of the American birds make inexpressible noises."