#Indelicacy
#AminaCain
Occasionally a man would walk by and ask what I was doing…I would say…”I am writing down my dreams." When too many men had walked by with this same question…I said, "Your face looks like the butt of a wolf and it's interfering with my concentration."
#booksky
#TheWriteWomen
#AminaCain
Occasionally a man would walk by and ask what I was doing…I would say…”I am writing down my dreams." When too many men had walked by with this same question…I said, "Your face looks like the butt of a wolf and it's interfering with my concentration."
#booksky
#TheWriteWomen
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
#Indelicacy
#AminaCain
Occasionally a man would walk by and ask what I was doing…I would say…”I am writing down my dreams." When too many men had walked by with this same question…I said, "Your face looks like the butt of a wolf and it's interfering with my concentration."
#booksky
#TheWriteWomen
#AminaCain
Occasionally a man would walk by and ask what I was doing…I would say…”I am writing down my dreams." When too many men had walked by with this same question…I said, "Your face looks like the butt of a wolf and it's interfering with my concentration."
#booksky
#TheWriteWomen
April 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
@aminacain @badaude @ReadWomen2014 Here's this month's display, all current faves. We'll rotate monthly. <a href="http://t.co/DNyWgHW8mX" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://t.co/DNyWgHW8mX
November 10, 2024 at 1:51 PM
@aminacain @badaude @ReadWomen2014 Here's this month's display, all current faves. We'll rotate monthly. <a href="http://t.co/DNyWgHW8mX" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://t.co/DNyWgHW8mX
@aminacain Every day I pass a little placard advertising the services of a certain Cahill, Master Graphologist. It tempts me.
November 10, 2024 at 1:13 PM
@aminacain Every day I pass a little placard advertising the services of a certain Cahill, Master Graphologist. It tempts me.
@aminacain I'm wary of the enthusiastic rush, the expectation that the new thing (whatever it is) is going to be better, more fulfilling...
November 10, 2024 at 12:25 PM
@aminacain I'm wary of the enthusiastic rush, the expectation that the new thing (whatever it is) is going to be better, more fulfilling...
@patricknathan @tristan_foster @aminacain I'm joining this conversation to admit that I'm fairly obsessed with octagonal houses.
November 10, 2024 at 11:42 AM
@patricknathan @tristan_foster @aminacain I'm joining this conversation to admit that I'm fairly obsessed with octagonal houses.
@tristan_foster @patricknathan @aminacain The octagon can't be faulted for its unfortunate associations.
November 10, 2024 at 11:42 AM
@tristan_foster @patricknathan @aminacain The octagon can't be faulted for its unfortunate associations.
@aminacain @patricknathan @tristan_foster Has anyone read Marian Engel's The Bear? Great octagonal house in that novel.
November 10, 2024 at 11:42 AM
@aminacain @patricknathan @tristan_foster Has anyone read Marian Engel's The Bear? Great octagonal house in that novel.
@aminacain @nyrbclassics @dbvisel @AhabLives @colindickey Was it excerpted in Cabinet? I remember the praying skeleton on the cover...
November 10, 2024 at 11:36 AM
@aminacain @nyrbclassics @dbvisel @AhabLives @colindickey Was it excerpted in Cabinet? I remember the praying skeleton on the cover...
@aminacain Oh, jealous.
November 10, 2024 at 11:31 AM
@aminacain Oh, jealous.
@aminacain It's true, but rather than be disappointed, I find solace in the small crowd who champion the book & carry it out into the world.
November 10, 2024 at 11:15 AM
@aminacain It's true, but rather than be disappointed, I find solace in the small crowd who champion the book & carry it out into the world.
@aminacain @kennycoble @AhabLives Kenny, we wouldn't go anywhere without you.
November 10, 2024 at 11:15 AM
@aminacain @kennycoble @AhabLives Kenny, we wouldn't go anywhere without you.
@aminacain @AhabLives The eternal questions! And so many mundane and inexplicable reasons why, probably.
November 10, 2024 at 11:15 AM
@aminacain @AhabLives The eternal questions! And so many mundane and inexplicable reasons why, probably.
@aminacain @AhabLives I remember talking to a small publisher who felt he had to publish hardcovers simply to get review attention.
November 10, 2024 at 11:15 AM
@aminacain @AhabLives I remember talking to a small publisher who felt he had to publish hardcovers simply to get review attention.
@martinriker @aminacain It's certainly changing, but the fact that someone thought that (a few years ago) is telling.
November 10, 2024 at 11:15 AM
@martinriker @aminacain It's certainly changing, but the fact that someone thought that (a few years ago) is telling.
@aminacain I've heard so many good things about P & H's, so that's on the itinerary. It's mostly the emptiness and beauty I crave.
November 10, 2024 at 11:03 AM
@aminacain I've heard so many good things about P & H's, so that's on the itinerary. It's mostly the emptiness and beauty I crave.
@aminacain I know of several men who have read her, but I'm not sure if that's a representative sample.
November 10, 2024 at 9:58 AM
@aminacain I know of several men who have read her, but I'm not sure if that's a representative sample.
@aminacain It's one of the best examples I know of successful use of collage/fragments/reappropriation.
November 10, 2024 at 9:03 AM
@aminacain It's one of the best examples I know of successful use of collage/fragments/reappropriation.
@aminacain @riverheadbooks is publishing it in the US next summer if you don't want to pay the import prices.
November 10, 2024 at 8:30 AM
@aminacain @riverheadbooks is publishing it in the US next summer if you don't want to pay the import prices.
@aminacain I haven't. Is it worthwhile?
November 10, 2024 at 8:20 AM
@aminacain I haven't. Is it worthwhile?
@aminacain It reminds me of Spufford's book about Scott: I May Be Some Time. It has the best subtitle: Ice and the English Imagination
November 10, 2024 at 8:20 AM
@aminacain It reminds me of Spufford's book about Scott: I May Be Some Time. It has the best subtitle: Ice and the English Imagination
@aminacain Do you use twitter on your phone? I've accidentally followed accounts by my clumsy thumb.
November 10, 2024 at 8:10 AM
@aminacain Do you use twitter on your phone? I've accidentally followed accounts by my clumsy thumb.
@aminacain Did you read this piece about the "ephemeral real" in that movie? <a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/ephemeral-real-part" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/ephemeral-real-part
The Ephemeral Real, Part I | Los Angeles Review of Books
a boat on its side in the water, removed from the Italian coastline last month … in a film, "The Great Beauty," forever. This is the first article in a series of six.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 8, 2024 at 3:58 PM
@aminacain Did you read this piece about the "ephemeral real" in that movie? <a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/ephemeral-real-part" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/ephemeral-real-part
@aminacain I went back and forth on whether this line of inquiry had merit--but then again, I didn't see the movie [yet] so I'm a bad judge.
November 8, 2024 at 3:58 PM
@aminacain I went back and forth on whether this line of inquiry had merit--but then again, I didn't see the movie [yet] so I'm a bad judge.
@aminacain They're all the way up to Part V but I haven't read past the first one.
November 8, 2024 at 3:58 PM
@aminacain They're all the way up to Part V but I haven't read past the first one.