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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you can dm me I can help you finding and getting these things.

moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@kurtbusiek.bsky.social hi Kurt, hope your health is well. Is their any update on Astro City The Opus Edition Book One? And generally are their any new Astro City releases planned for the upcoming year? Thanks

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

There are a lot of magazine interviews and articles that she has written but they are only physical

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I highly doubt it’s possible I can upload a scan later. Their are also a lot of magazine features which are not online

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

But only a handful of his works survived the gunpowder explosion that destroyed a quarter of the city in 1654, and among these — and indeed in the history of painting — The Goldfinch stands alone." Published May 5, 2022

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It opens: "Carel Fabritius, who died young, was Rembrandt's most famous pupil and one of Delft's most eminent painters in one of the greatest ages of painting.

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Tartt's chosen painting is Carel Fabritius, The Goldfinch (1654) — the very work at the heart of her 2013 novel. Her single-page meditation faces a full-bleed reproduction of the painting.

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A 400-ish-word essay in the bicentenary anthology of the Mauritshuis, The Hague (English ed. ISBN 978-94-6262-381-1; hardcover quarto, ~416–445 pp. depending on source).

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@tartt-abc.bsky.social Pen Meets Paint: 200 Years Mauritshuis, 200 Writers, 200 Paintings (Waanders / Mauritshuis, 2022) — §7.9

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's a meditative art-essay about Parish's deep-blue, water-themed paintings — Tartt's earliest known gallery-catalog contribution and one of the rarest items in her collecting record.

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The essay opens with a Heraclitus epigraph in Greek and translation ("The way up and the way down are the same"); the back panel carries a Moby-Dick epigraph on meditation and water.

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A saddle-stitched softcover gallery catalog for painter Erin Parish's solo show. Tartt wrote the catalog essay, occupying one interior spread, signed and dated "Donna Tartt, New York City, 4 October 1997" (the show ran into January 10, 1998).

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@tartt-abc.bsky.social Into the Blue Again — Erin Parish exhibition catalog (Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York, 1997) — §7.8

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is the earliest documented printed appearance of TSH text — pre-dating the September 16, 1992 trade first. So she didn't write something new here; this is Knopf reprinting her opening pages as pre-publication marketing

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Bunny had been dead for several weeks…"), accompanied by a Victorian neoclassical painting and a small B&W author photo.

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The text is the opening Prologue passage of The Secret History ("The snow in the mountains was melting and

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

plus the gutter caption "The opening confession of Donna Tartt's astonishing debut novel / SEPTEMBER."

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@tartt-abc.bsky.social 2. The Borzoi Reader, Vol. 4 No. 3, Fall 1992 (Alfred A. Knopf) — §8.5 Knopf's in-house seasonal trade catalog. Tartt's content sits on p. 7: the title block "THE SECRET HISTORY / DONNA TARTT / A novel"

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

a revised opinion of the painter Giorgio Morandi (from "monotonous and dull" to "very important to me"), her literary loves and aversions (Nabokov, Eliot, Woolf, Milton; Saul Bellow leaves her cold), and a Caldecott-Medal childhood anecdote.

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

She rambles charmingly across in-flight reading (Conrad's Victory, Ian Rankin's Black and Blue, Rimbaud), music (Death in Vegas), film and TV (Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Sex and the City, Ab Fab), two Bonnier book-tour parties in Sweden a decade apart,

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The letter is dated 9 November 2005, salutation "Dear Anonymous Partygoer," written on the back of a travel itinerary on an airplane.

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@tartt-abc.bsky.social Some things you may not have: 1. Livraison N°2 (Stockholm, 2006/2007) — §7.27 A single reply-letter from Tartt on p. 145 of the magazine's "Exchange Issue / Hidden Objects" letter-writing themed issue (ed. Marie Birde; ISBN 91-975633-0-7).

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moshebaum.bsky.social @moshebaum.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

@tartt-abc.bsky.social I started a similar project a couple weeks ago, I would love to compare notes. I have been focusing on primary sources only .

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