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Jay Innis Murray

@jayinnismurray.bsky.social

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Got a dictionary and some sharpened pencils and other things like that. Book reviews and sometimes essays on my website. www.thevisionarycompany.net

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Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hello to bluesky.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Self-Portrait in several convex mirrors.

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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

"The novella is lifelike and strange. Ryan creates a wonderfully claustrophobic atmosphere [...] The assurances of a conventional novel are tossed aside ..." Impossible to Say:A Review of Glantz — @jayinnismurray.bsky.social thevisionarycompany.net/2026/01/16/i...

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Impossible to Say: A Review of Glantz (2025) by Tobias Ryan

By Jay Innis Murray As I think about works that are similar to Glantz, the troublingly great novella by Tobias Ryan, some novels by Saramago come to mind, but the itch I cannot scratch away is the …

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Twitter crashes every day now.

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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Impossible to Say: A Review of Glantz (2025) — @jayinnismurray.bsky.social thevisionarycompany.net/2026/01/16/i...

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Impossible to Say: A Review of Glantz (2025) by Tobias Ryan

By Jay Innis Murray As I think about works that are similar to Glantz, the troublingly great novella by Tobias Ryan, some novels by Saramago come to mind, but the itch I cannot scratch away is the …

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Hey. Finally remembered my log-in.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

o andor adorno

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Upper West Side Philosophers, Incorporated

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Not good. Similar here.

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Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Happy 100th to Mrs. Dalloway.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I’m really sorry.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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A Review of On the Calculation of Volume 1 (2024) by Solvej Balle

By Jay Innis Murray New Directions has cleverly chosen November 18 for the publication date of Book 3 of On the Calculation of Volume. Anyone who has read Book 1 can tell you November 18 is the day…

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DanAAAAAAAAAA Boo-rube @dana-berube.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Dale Cooper looks like he smells incredible

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

550th bday for Michelangelo. @six18sfoundry.bsky.social

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Ever read A Pale View of Hills?

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Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Do you have a podcast I missed?

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Holy shit. This is the real thing.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I had fun with that book. Glad you liked it.

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Genese Grill @genesegrill.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Musil Contra Mann: Just a taster for my longer analysis of the complex relationship between these two men (coming soon): open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...

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Musil contra Mann

A particularly nasty dig from Musil's notebooks

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Charles Dickens was born on this day in 1812. There’s a fascinating mini portrait of him in Zadie Smith’s novel The Fraud.

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The Secret Engine of the World: A Review of The Fraud (2023) by Zadie Smith

By Jay Innis Murray … whilst coiled behind all gazes the great Worm of Slavery. — Pynchon, Mason & Dixon The curious reader need not wonder why Zadie Smith wrote a historical novel for her sixt…

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Amazing!

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Yesterday I heard someone say “decisioned.”

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Mine was printed without it somehow.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Does your edition have the Ford introduction the cover claims it has?

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

R&G Are Dead, too.

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Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Huge if true.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I wrote a review of Let the Boys Play (2024) by Nicholas John Turner. Great book. My novel of the year for this year.

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A Review of Let the Boys Play (2024) by Nicholas John Turner

By Jay Innis Murray “Firm ground is not available ground.” – – – AR Ammons, “Dunes” Here is a book that does not flinch. Here is a book about suffering. This is my novel of the ye…

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Kafka’s sisters.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The whale one.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The Gay Science, section 276.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – (Happy birthday to Emily Dickinson)

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

the whole bird (Miss MacIntosh, My Darling)

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Rilke’s birthday again.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

What is that?

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Totally agree.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

William Blake was born on this day in 1757. Obsessed with the color of the sun.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

That yellow dress looks familiar.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Bb minor.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

You save it, because we’re not going to, the cup pleads.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I second Paul’s Salter rec.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Why hasn’t there been a revolt over Christmas being two months long

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Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

One bit of Australian culture I learned about from Let the Boys Play is netball. I’d never heard of it.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Joining the club.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Yes. Love this book.

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Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The people love his cats.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What do their mothers look like tho

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Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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The Sublime Danielle Steel: For the Love of Supermarket Schlock | Los Angeles Review of Books

Dan Sinykin reconsiders the career of Danielle Steel.

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Leaning over to whisper in my date’s ear: “That’s the title.”

Jay Innis Murray @jayinnismurray.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is new to my unfrozen caveman brain. These modern starter packs.