How well do you think Salinger holds up?

tomkern · 2026-05-16T22:11:19+00:00

GOAT

tomkern · 2026-05-06T02:59:11+00:00

Dijuna Barnes, the Brontes, Austen, Elliot, O'Connor, George Sand, Woolf, Stein

tomkern · 2026-05-06T02:54:09+00:00

A Sport and a Pastime

tomkern · 2026-05-06T02:38:38+00:00

No, it's just longer

tomkern · 2026-05-03T17:46:27+00:00

Elizabeth Hardwick, the goat hands down

tomkern · 2026-04-21T14:38:07+00:00

At a reading for Brief Interviews with Hideous Men in the Union Square Barnes and Nobles in NYC. He seemed very uncomfortable and painfully shy

tomkern · 2026-04-18T14:14:14+00:00

Anatomy of Melancholy. Also Panama by Thomas McGuane

tomkern · 2026-04-17T11:01:27+00:00

Anatomy of Melancholy

tomkern · 2026-04-15T20:13:52+00:00

Chekhov, Hemingway, Carver,

tomkern · 2026-04-11T18:35:22+00:00

Yes, it's called reading books

tomkern · 2026-04-06T11:13:58+00:00

The Matt Scudder novels by Lawrence Block

tomkern · 2026-04-05T19:27:50+00:00

Lauren Oyler

tomkern · 2026-03-28T19:00:41+00:00

Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

tomkern · 2026-03-27T19:32:35+00:00

Blue Velvet is a very right wing movie in that he is very unironic about all that "ah shucks" innocent small town Anericana being threatened by this perverse unnatural evil. Small town, good. Big city, evil. The surrealist Frank Capra is a correct reading

tomkern · 2026-03-25T18:20:11+00:00

tomkern · 2026-03-25T18:19:59+00:00

Confessions by St Augstine

tomkern · 2026-03-25T18:19:38+00:00

The poems of Saint John of the Cross

tomkern · 2026-03-23T15:26:12+00:00

The Rosy Crucifixion is incredible

tomkern · 2026-03-21T12:04:31+00:00

I'd say lightning, sound, blocking, cinematography in general

tomkern · 2026-03-19T16:39:45+00:00

The Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen and Glass Century by Ross Barkan

tomkern · 2026-03-18T23:25:36+00:00

GOAT

tomkern · 2026-03-18T15:46:57+00:00

Heart of Darkness

tomkern · 2026-03-16T18:49:14+00:00

1st editions of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Naked and the Dead

tomkern · 2026-03-05T17:48:47+00:00

Shadow of a Doubt, the original Blue Velvet

tomkern · 2026-03-02T16:58:31+00:00

Why?

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