Art Kavanagh
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Art Kavanagh
@www.artkavanagh.ie
I write about books and literature: Andrew Marvell, Salman Rushdie, Tana French, that sort of thing. My newsletter, Talk about books, goes out every 2 weeks https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/tabarchive
… and based on a novel by Anders Bodelsen (Think of a Number). I haven’t seen the film since it was released in the late 70s but really enjoyed it and would love to see it again.
December 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sorry, I was wrong about Reader View, so I’ve deleted previous post.
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
And when I try to skip forward to the 30-minute point, it won’t let me, but continues to play from the beginning. Why do people put up with Substack?
December 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I love the idea of Atwood and Bainbridge betting on which of them would have the most nominations without winning.
December 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I’m still on the lookout for a piece of music by Bud Powell titled “Chick Corea”.
December 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
As a critic, Carey was brilliantly insightful about a wide range of authors and periods but he was at his best writing about Andrew Marvell. This past few days I’ve been rereading his lecture “Reversals transposed: An aspect of Marvell’s imagination” (1978), which I haven’t reread often enough.
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Well, we’re getting *some* redistribution of wealth. Unfortunately not in the right direction.
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’m reading a mass market paperback from 1996 at the moment. The paper quality is much better than I was expecting.
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
So does TNFR.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It would be at least as good an idea to break up the United States. Not necessarily into 50 sovereign states but say into 3: California, Orgon and Washington (with maybe Arizona and Nevada, if they were interested), a second bloc from Illinois over to Maine and south as far as Virginia at least.
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Noah be damn’d and all his race accurst,
That in sea brine did pickle timber first.
What though he planted vines! he pines cut down.
He taught us how to drink, and how to drown.
He first built ships and, in that wooden wall
Saving but eight, e’er since endangers all.
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM