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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Surely this bit about J. M. Barrie isn’t true? (I’ve read a biography of Barrie, but all I remember is that his butler was the inspiration for Jeeves and that Barrie was a basically indefensible problem.)

Alexander Woollcott, from “The Sacred Grove:

I would not mind a home of my own being an affront to every other eye so long as it was full of the accidentals of my own life. I doubt if I am any longer equal to such spasms of quaintness as animated young J. M.
Barrie when, more than forty years ago, he was fur-bishing his first flat in London and used to paste on the back of each piece of furniture a copy of the newspaper or magazine article which had paid for it.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

well I understand the impulse

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

There’s no question that I will always remember that my Wes Anderson Criterion Collection set was bought with the earnings of my interview for the DVD extras of The Outfit.

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