Kevin Anthony Brown
@kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social
Author | Essayist | Translator | Reviewer
Literary Arts | Performing Arts | The Art of Translation | Visual Arts
«Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024)
Literary Arts | Performing Arts | The Art of Translation | Visual Arts
«Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024)
Reposted by Kevin Anthony Brown
Manuel Puig - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
December 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Manuel Puig - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» - Notebooks, 1985-2025
26 December 2025
Reading Notes/Quotations
“Words cluster like chromosomes, determining procedure.” -- Marianne Moore
#BookSky #poetry #prompt #WriterSky
26 December 2025
Reading Notes/Quotations
“Words cluster like chromosomes, determining procedure.” -- Marianne Moore
#BookSky #poetry #prompt #WriterSky
December 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» - Notebooks, 1985-2025
26 December 2025
Reading Notes/Quotations
“Words cluster like chromosomes, determining procedure.” -- Marianne Moore
#BookSky #poetry #prompt #WriterSky
26 December 2025
Reading Notes/Quotations
“Words cluster like chromosomes, determining procedure.” -- Marianne Moore
#BookSky #poetry #prompt #WriterSky
Am a Feature Film, Documentaries and/or Sports fan, not a TV binge-watcher.
But content like this (and gritty prison shows like «The Mayor of Kingstown») occasionally keeps me up past my bedtime.
Far as I'm concerned hockey is Performance Art, like ballet.
#NewYorkRangers #NYR #RangersNation #NHL
But content like this (and gritty prison shows like «The Mayor of Kingstown») occasionally keeps me up past my bedtime.
Far as I'm concerned hockey is Performance Art, like ballet.
#NewYorkRangers #NYR #RangersNation #NHL
December 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Am a Feature Film, Documentaries and/or Sports fan, not a TV binge-watcher.
But content like this (and gritty prison shows like «The Mayor of Kingstown») occasionally keeps me up past my bedtime.
Far as I'm concerned hockey is Performance Art, like ballet.
#NewYorkRangers #NYR #RangersNation #NHL
But content like this (and gritty prison shows like «The Mayor of Kingstown») occasionally keeps me up past my bedtime.
Far as I'm concerned hockey is Performance Art, like ballet.
#NewYorkRangers #NYR #RangersNation #NHL
Reposted by Kevin Anthony Brown
Jean Toomer - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
December 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Jean Toomer - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
25 December 2025
One week left between the old year and the new.
I see a timeline: the end of late middle age; and the onset of old age.
I have 3 book projects in mind. Not sure how many more I can publish in the time I have left.
Holst: "Neptune, The Mystic".
25 December 2025
One week left between the old year and the new.
I see a timeline: the end of late middle age; and the onset of old age.
I have 3 book projects in mind. Not sure how many more I can publish in the time I have left.
Holst: "Neptune, The Mystic".
December 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
25 December 2025
One week left between the old year and the new.
I see a timeline: the end of late middle age; and the onset of old age.
I have 3 book projects in mind. Not sure how many more I can publish in the time I have left.
Holst: "Neptune, The Mystic".
25 December 2025
One week left between the old year and the new.
I see a timeline: the end of late middle age; and the onset of old age.
I have 3 book projects in mind. Not sure how many more I can publish in the time I have left.
Holst: "Neptune, The Mystic".
Reposted by Kevin Anthony Brown
On this date in 1958, Willie O’Ree makes his NHL debut for the Boston Bruins in a 3-0 victory in Montreal. Haha! Stupid Habs.
January 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
On this date in 1958, Willie O’Ree makes his NHL debut for the Boston Bruins in a 3-0 victory in Montreal. Haha! Stupid Habs.
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
22 December 2025
Quotations - Culture, History, Society & Armed Conflicts
"Rien ne vous tue un homme comme d'être obligé de représenter un pays"
Letter from Jacques Vaché to André Breton
Quoted in Julio Cortázar, «Hopscotch»
Let's call it political distancing
22 December 2025
Quotations - Culture, History, Society & Armed Conflicts
"Rien ne vous tue un homme comme d'être obligé de représenter un pays"
Letter from Jacques Vaché to André Breton
Quoted in Julio Cortázar, «Hopscotch»
Let's call it political distancing
December 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
22 December 2025
Quotations - Culture, History, Society & Armed Conflicts
"Rien ne vous tue un homme comme d'être obligé de représenter un pays"
Letter from Jacques Vaché to André Breton
Quoted in Julio Cortázar, «Hopscotch»
Let's call it political distancing
22 December 2025
Quotations - Culture, History, Society & Armed Conflicts
"Rien ne vous tue un homme comme d'être obligé de représenter un pays"
Letter from Jacques Vaché to André Breton
Quoted in Julio Cortázar, «Hopscotch»
Let's call it political distancing
(1/2)
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
(Notebooks, 1985-2025)
Writing Projects - Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews
21 December 2025
The Letters of Julio Cortázar: 1937-1984
(In Progress, anticipated Summer/Fall 2026)
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
(Notebooks, 1985-2025)
Writing Projects - Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews
21 December 2025
The Letters of Julio Cortázar: 1937-1984
(In Progress, anticipated Summer/Fall 2026)
December 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
(1/2)
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
(Notebooks, 1985-2025)
Writing Projects - Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews
21 December 2025
The Letters of Julio Cortázar: 1937-1984
(In Progress, anticipated Summer/Fall 2026)
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
(Notebooks, 1985-2025)
Writing Projects - Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews
21 December 2025
The Letters of Julio Cortázar: 1937-1984
(In Progress, anticipated Summer/Fall 2026)
«Soliloquies:The Progoff Diaries»
Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleagues, Acquaintances & Holidays
21 December 2025
"Despite the ties of blood, we may call a person who knows nothing of our dearest interests and whom we see but once a year a stranger."
[Stendhal, «The Charterhouse of Parma» p. 397]
Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleagues, Acquaintances & Holidays
21 December 2025
"Despite the ties of blood, we may call a person who knows nothing of our dearest interests and whom we see but once a year a stranger."
[Stendhal, «The Charterhouse of Parma» p. 397]
December 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
«Soliloquies:The Progoff Diaries»
Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleagues, Acquaintances & Holidays
21 December 2025
"Despite the ties of blood, we may call a person who knows nothing of our dearest interests and whom we see but once a year a stranger."
[Stendhal, «The Charterhouse of Parma» p. 397]
Family, Friends, Lovers, Colleagues, Acquaintances & Holidays
21 December 2025
"Despite the ties of blood, we may call a person who knows nothing of our dearest interests and whom we see but once a year a stranger."
[Stendhal, «The Charterhouse of Parma» p. 397]
“Anyone can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy.”
Aristotle on Anger
Quoted in «Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024), p. 99
Aristotle on Anger
Quoted in «Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024), p. 99
December 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“Anyone can become angry—that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy.”
Aristotle on Anger
Quoted in «Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024), p. 99
Aristotle on Anger
Quoted in «Countée Cullen's Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History» (Parlor Press, 2024), p. 99
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
(Notebooks, 1985-2025)
20 December 2025
The Performing Arts - Opera
Now Playing: «Intermezzi» (1968); Berlin PO; Karajan DG 139 031 (vinyl)
(Notebooks, 1985-2025)
20 December 2025
The Performing Arts - Opera
Now Playing: «Intermezzi» (1968); Berlin PO; Karajan DG 139 031 (vinyl)
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
(Notebooks, 1985-2025)
20 December 2025
The Performing Arts - Opera
Now Playing: «Intermezzi» (1968); Berlin PO; Karajan DG 139 031 (vinyl)
(Notebooks, 1985-2025)
20 December 2025
The Performing Arts - Opera
Now Playing: «Intermezzi» (1968); Berlin PO; Karajan DG 139 031 (vinyl)
Reposted by Kevin Anthony Brown
The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Pietro Belluschi and Pier Luigi Nervi, San Francisco, USA, 1971
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Pietro Belluschi and Pier Luigi Nervi, San Francisco, USA, 1971
Reposted by Kevin Anthony Brown
Just finished this well-researched and important book. It was a difficult read and while most of the book is infuriating snd horrifying, Westhead does end it by showing the steps people are starting to take to unravel and dismantle toxic hockey culture. Highly recommend.
My new book, WE BREED LIONS: Confronting Canada’s Troubled Hockey Culture is coming this fall.
Hockey in Canada is at crossroads. Current and former junior players have been shockingly open with me. There is much to explore and discuss.
Pre-order here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/775299...
Hockey in Canada is at crossroads. Current and former junior players have been shockingly open with me. There is much to explore and discuss.
Pre-order here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/775299...
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Just finished this well-researched and important book. It was a difficult read and while most of the book is infuriating snd horrifying, Westhead does end it by showing the steps people are starting to take to unravel and dismantle toxic hockey culture. Highly recommend.
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» - Journals, 1985-2025
18 December 2025
Reading Notes
“It is thus that petty despotisms reduce to nothing the value of public opinion.” [Stendhal, «The Charterhouse of Parma», p. 390]
18 December 2025
Reading Notes
“It is thus that petty despotisms reduce to nothing the value of public opinion.” [Stendhal, «The Charterhouse of Parma», p. 390]
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» - Journals, 1985-2025
18 December 2025
Reading Notes
“It is thus that petty despotisms reduce to nothing the value of public opinion.” [Stendhal, «The Charterhouse of Parma», p. 390]
18 December 2025
Reading Notes
“It is thus that petty despotisms reduce to nothing the value of public opinion.” [Stendhal, «The Charterhouse of Parma», p. 390]
Writing Projects - Articles, Essays & Reviews
17 December 2025
Reviewed Kevin Young's Library of America Anthology «African-American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song» in 2020.
Discovered Thomas Sayers Ellis' "View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School," pp., 786-87.
17 December 2025
Reviewed Kevin Young's Library of America Anthology «African-American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song» in 2020.
Discovered Thomas Sayers Ellis' "View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School," pp., 786-87.
December 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Writing Projects - Articles, Essays & Reviews
17 December 2025
Reviewed Kevin Young's Library of America Anthology «African-American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song» in 2020.
Discovered Thomas Sayers Ellis' "View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School," pp., 786-87.
17 December 2025
Reviewed Kevin Young's Library of America Anthology «African-American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song» in 2020.
Discovered Thomas Sayers Ellis' "View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School," pp., 786-87.
The Performing Arts/Improvised Music
Craig Marvin Taiborn, piano
Selected Discography:
Avenging Angel (2010) ECM
Biography:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_T...
Craig Marvin Taiborn, piano
Selected Discography:
Avenging Angel (2010) ECM
Biography:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_T...
Craig Taborn - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The Performing Arts/Improvised Music
Craig Marvin Taiborn, piano
Selected Discography:
Avenging Angel (2010) ECM
Biography:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_T...
Craig Marvin Taiborn, piano
Selected Discography:
Avenging Angel (2010) ECM
Biography:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_T...
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
Research & Development
15 December 2025
The New York Review Books Classics spring catalog is just out.
As a reviewer, I gravitate toward books from Archipelago, FSG, New Directions, NYRBC and trade-oriented university presses.
cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...
Research & Development
15 December 2025
The New York Review Books Classics spring catalog is just out.
As a reviewer, I gravitate toward books from Archipelago, FSG, New Directions, NYRBC and trade-oriented university presses.
cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
Research & Development
15 December 2025
The New York Review Books Classics spring catalog is just out.
As a reviewer, I gravitate toward books from Archipelago, FSG, New Directions, NYRBC and trade-oriented university presses.
cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...
Research & Development
15 December 2025
The New York Review Books Classics spring catalog is just out.
As a reviewer, I gravitate toward books from Archipelago, FSG, New Directions, NYRBC and trade-oriented university presses.
cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews
9 December 2025
3500-word essay about:
Julio Cortázar's novella «A Certain Lucas» (New Directions); «Hopscotch» (Rabassa, trans.); and
«Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar» (Archipelago).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_C...
Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews
9 December 2025
3500-word essay about:
Julio Cortázar's novella «A Certain Lucas» (New Directions); «Hopscotch» (Rabassa, trans.); and
«Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar» (Archipelago).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_C...
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews
9 December 2025
3500-word essay about:
Julio Cortázar's novella «A Certain Lucas» (New Directions); «Hopscotch» (Rabassa, trans.); and
«Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar» (Archipelago).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_C...
Articles, Essays, Interviews & Reviews
9 December 2025
3500-word essay about:
Julio Cortázar's novella «A Certain Lucas» (New Directions); «Hopscotch» (Rabassa, trans.); and
«Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar» (Archipelago).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_C...
Reposted by Kevin Anthony Brown
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» (Table of Illustrations)
Travel Journal
La Chinesca, Mexicali, Baja California
#Chinatowns #Museums #Borderlands
Travel Journal
La Chinesca, Mexicali, Baja California
#Chinatowns #Museums #Borderlands
October 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» (Table of Illustrations)
Travel Journal
La Chinesca, Mexicali, Baja California
#Chinatowns #Museums #Borderlands
Travel Journal
La Chinesca, Mexicali, Baja California
#Chinatowns #Museums #Borderlands
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
Reading Notes
4 December 2025
On my way to the used book sale, I saw this email:
"For the next 36 hours, New York Review Books is offering 40% off all series titles."
Snagged six brand new classics instead, saved over $50 & got free S&H.
Christmas came early.
Reading Notes
4 December 2025
On my way to the used book sale, I saw this email:
"For the next 36 hours, New York Review Books is offering 40% off all series titles."
Snagged six brand new classics instead, saved over $50 & got free S&H.
Christmas came early.
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
Reading Notes
4 December 2025
On my way to the used book sale, I saw this email:
"For the next 36 hours, New York Review Books is offering 40% off all series titles."
Snagged six brand new classics instead, saved over $50 & got free S&H.
Christmas came early.
Reading Notes
4 December 2025
On my way to the used book sale, I saw this email:
"For the next 36 hours, New York Review Books is offering 40% off all series titles."
Snagged six brand new classics instead, saved over $50 & got free S&H.
Christmas came early.
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» (Notebooks, 1985-2025)
Research & Development
2 December 2025
Remembering Richard Howard--poet, essayist, critic, lexicographer.
Translator of Stendhal's «The Charterhouse of Parma», many other works from French into English.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
Research & Development
2 December 2025
Remembering Richard Howard--poet, essayist, critic, lexicographer.
Translator of Stendhal's «The Charterhouse of Parma», many other works from French into English.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» (Notebooks, 1985-2025)
Research & Development
2 December 2025
Remembering Richard Howard--poet, essayist, critic, lexicographer.
Translator of Stendhal's «The Charterhouse of Parma», many other works from French into English.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
Research & Development
2 December 2025
Remembering Richard Howard--poet, essayist, critic, lexicographer.
Translator of Stendhal's «The Charterhouse of Parma», many other works from French into English.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...
Notebooks
Writing prompts I've scattered throughout my «Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» posts were adapted from the Ira Progoff journaling method.
«At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability» (1975).
Cycling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUi...
Writing prompts I've scattered throughout my «Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» posts were adapted from the Ira Progoff journaling method.
«At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability» (1975).
Cycling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUi...
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Notebooks
Writing prompts I've scattered throughout my «Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» posts were adapted from the Ira Progoff journaling method.
«At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability» (1975).
Cycling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUi...
Writing prompts I've scattered throughout my «Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries» posts were adapted from the Ira Progoff journaling method.
«At a Journal Workshop: Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability» (1975).
Cycling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrUi...
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
Timelines - Breakthroughs/Epiphanies
30 November 2025
Didn't plan it. Just worked out that way. Finished reading «Hadji Murat» as I approached Stendhal's Battle of Waterloo. I see what the Tolstoy fuss is all about. Count Leo admired «The Charterhouse of Parma»
Timelines - Breakthroughs/Epiphanies
30 November 2025
Didn't plan it. Just worked out that way. Finished reading «Hadji Murat» as I approached Stendhal's Battle of Waterloo. I see what the Tolstoy fuss is all about. Count Leo admired «The Charterhouse of Parma»
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
«Soliloquies: The Progoff Diaries»
Timelines - Breakthroughs/Epiphanies
30 November 2025
Didn't plan it. Just worked out that way. Finished reading «Hadji Murat» as I approached Stendhal's Battle of Waterloo. I see what the Tolstoy fuss is all about. Count Leo admired «The Charterhouse of Parma»
Timelines - Breakthroughs/Epiphanies
30 November 2025
Didn't plan it. Just worked out that way. Finished reading «Hadji Murat» as I approached Stendhal's Battle of Waterloo. I see what the Tolstoy fuss is all about. Count Leo admired «The Charterhouse of Parma»
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM