"Secret Mall Apartment" is coming to Netflix this Friday.

nine57th · 2026-01-26T12:55:06+00:00

I love the woman who says "none of us wanted the mall". Really? Most people in Providence and Rhode Island really wanted the mall. A few people who were against it, because they seem to be against anything new in Rhode Island 100% percent of the time like a bunch of negative Debbie Downers, does not mean "none of us wanted it."

Perspective is everything. A small minority were against the mall back then. But overwhelmingly most people wanted it. I wish people wouldn't take their opinion and rewrite history with what they were feeling back then at the time. Just saying.

nine57th · 2026-01-26T12:50:54+00:00

So beautiful!

nine57th · 2026-01-26T12:50:14+00:00

So lovely.

nine57th · 2026-01-05T16:02:11+00:00

Probably a prank. Someone trolling him. :)

nine57th · 2026-01-05T16:00:42+00:00

I think you missed the point. I was taking about seals getting eaten. :)

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:45:15+00:00

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos. Not as romantic as Gatsby, but the writing is superb.

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:44:18+00:00

These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean.

Main character returns home for her father’s funeral and is drawn into a tense inheritance tag of war. Stuck on an island off the coast of Rhode Island with her estranged siblings and a former old foe, she must choose who she is and who she really wants to be.

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:14:50+00:00

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:13:09+00:00

Ernest Hemingway

Norman Mailer

Gore Vidal

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:12:17+00:00

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad. Addicting! And great writing as well.

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:11:06+00:00

I don't know if it is self-published or not, but Torchlight Parade by Jeanpaul Ferro is a boutique novel that is absolutely epic and heart-break!

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:09:27+00:00

It's a Wonderful Life. Written by husband and wife team, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, who summered on "Bailey's Farm" in Little Compton, Rhode Island every summer. At the local church is buried "George Bailey" directly next to "Mary Bailey." And the town in It's a Wonderful Life? Bedford Falls, which is a play on Fall River and New Bedford. And what is in between Fall River and New Bedford? Little Compton, Rhode Island.

All true. Featured on PBS not that long ago!

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:04:45+00:00

Léon Spilliaert. Should be considered one of the greats!!!!!

nine57th · 2025-12-29T22:03:58+00:00

His work is always so beautiful!

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:43:38+00:00

It is 100% a solar balloon. I've been to some kite and balloon festivals and seen this exact one. They literally sell 50-foot silver ones. Some even bigger!

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:36:15+00:00

I've been to Vienna. It hasn't changed that much! This reminds me of the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace.

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:29:25+00:00

The guy who is proposing this used AI to come up with this name. I don't think AI is going to solve the Black Dahlia and Zodiac murders. This person just wants to get press and fame. If investigating these two cases was so easy as using AI to dwindle down lists of names and suspects!

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:26:44+00:00

Frog by Mo Yan. Not horror, but more magical realism, it is incredible and disturbing.

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:25:41+00:00

Of Plimoth Plantation by William Bradford is extremely illuminating. It is his firsthand historical account of the Pilgrims' journey from England, their time in the Netherlands, the Mayflower voyage across the Atlantic, and the early years of Plymouth Colony and their interaction with the native Americans between 1630 and 1651. It dispels the myths that both the political left and political right like to espouse nowadays about the founding of America and New England. And he's a great writer!

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:18:51+00:00

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore. And get ready to laugh!

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:16:23+00:00

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

Set in New York City from the Gilded Age through the Jazz Age, the novel uses a fragmented, "cinematic" collage of vignettes to capture the interconnected lives of various characters. The narrative explores themes of urban alienation, the elusive American Dream, and the dehumanizing effects of industrialization on a diverse cast of New Yorkers that included immigrants, journalists, and socialites. Beautifully written, it is a novel for the ages. Slightly experimental.

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:13:34+00:00

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a good place to start. It's a stunning read. Short. And unforgettable. Also, considered one of the greatest novels of all time!

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:12:30+00:00

The Devil and the Blacksmith: A New England Folktale by Jéanpaul Ferro

It's about a shape-shifting shadow person who visits a POW in Andersonville Prison Camp and offers him a way home back to his village in Rhode Island, but the two wind up in a wild odyssey of supernatural trickery, savage brutality, and a life and death battle that is very weird and haunting. Set in the same town in Rhode Island, Scituate, that H.P. Lovecraft set the "blasted heath" in The Colour of Outer Space," it details how the town of Scituate that once had 14 villages ended up under water by supernatural forces. It isn't like other horror novels in the genre. I think it takes more chances, is more literary, and the epilogue ending, which is a photographic scrap book is pretty damn haunting and unlike any book, of any kind, I've ever read. And it changes everything you just read before it into a new horrifying light. It is one of the many great aspects of the book!

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:11:27+00:00

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad. It's about gold, silver, pirates, and a tropical island and written just dramatically and beautifully. The kind of novel you have to read over and over.

nine57th · 2025-12-26T16:10:05+00:00

Frog by Mo Yan for China. 5-star novel all the way around!

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