pgirvan @pgirvan.bsky.social · 23hMade a similar observation earlier this year: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...goodreads.comSign inSee what your friends are reading 000
Reposted by pgirvanPictou-Antigonish Regional Library @parlibrary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Calling local artists! PARL and the Town of New Glasgow are now seeking proposals for a significant public art piece as part of the New Glasgow Library Revitalization. Deadline for proposal submissions: Nov. 6th, 2026, 4PM. Check the Call for Proposals for more info: parl.ns.ca/locations/pd... 001
Reposted by pgirvanThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I had a good run. 001
Reposted by pgirvanThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 09/10/2026But let me get to the point. The three of you and your mother are all I've got, and I love you more than anything. 001
Reposted by pgirvanThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't like the sound of this one damn bit, Pagoda. I mean, Lord knows I've had my share of infidelities. But she's still my wife. And no goddamn two-bit accountant's going to change that. 011
Reposted by pgirvanThe Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is: Maybe he didn't? 0146
pgirvan @pgirvan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Where do you get Floyd? There’s no Floyd in any book Dix ever wrote. 010
Reposted by pgirvanPaul @rudemrlang.com · 01/10/2026They’re doing free access at newspapers.com all this weekend if anyone has any rabbit holes they’d like to disappear down. www.newspapers.com/go/freeacces...newspapers.comFree Access! Through October 5th.Limited time free access to view and search pages in our newspaper archive for obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, social pages, and much, much more. 23126
Reposted by pgirvanWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Outside the shed on the dock there were three men skinning a giant brown snake that hung from a hook. There, I said to myself, is something worth watching. 111
Reposted by pgirvanWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The kind of people I know now don’t have barbecues, Mama. They stand up alone at nights in small rooms and eat cold weenies. My so-called friends are bums. Many of them are nothing but rats. They spread T.B. and use dirty language. Some of them can even move their ears. 143
Reposted by pgirvanWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Dix was the greatest man of our time. He was truly a master of the arts, and some of the sciences too. He was the greatest writer who ever lived.” “They say Shakespeare was the greatest writer who ever lived.” “Dix puts William Shakespeare in the shithouse.” 122
pgirvan @pgirvan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026FWIW www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/be...nytimes.comMy Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st centuryIndustry, Twin Peaks: The Return, Deadwood and 7 more. 000
Reposted by pgirvanNick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Cover for 1922 first edition of Don Quijote in Mandarin by Liu Bangyi. Translated initially from English rather than Spanish as the "Adventures of a Crazy Hero". 13911
Reposted by pgirvanMeg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A second wind for the Lemannaissance this fall with recent pieces in N+1, LARB, and New Republic, culminating in this fantastic, long, review in @nybooks.com by Michael Gorra, who really takes the place Nancy comes from (New Orleans) seriously. An honor! www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comNothing Stays Buried | Michael GorraNancy Lemann sets her sad screwball novels of manners in the closed-off world of upper-crust white New Orleans that she grew up in. 152
Reposted by pgirvanMeg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Nancy Lemann in the @southwestreview.bsky.social southwestreview.com/volume-111-n... 021
Reposted by pgirvanThe Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 07/09/2026“My means are modest because my calling is paramount. I will always seek the truth and never lose my courage to express what matters. I own what I create in the marketplace. The marketplace does not own me.” Cassandra Wilson Led Jazz Into the Future With Warmth and Creative Conviction (gift link):nytimes.comCassandra Wilson Led Jazz Into the Future With Warmth and Creative Conviction (Gift Article)With a self-possessed vision, the vocalist married her easy and intimate tone to jazz, blues and folk experiments, opening the door to a new postmodernism. 093
Reposted by pgirvanDon-O @don-o.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Merry Birthday to a great American....who now lives in France... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk7M...youtube.comA Short History of America by Robert Crumb (1979)YouTube video by A Sea of Ink 031
pgirvan @pgirvan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026By week’s end, Trump will be the last 80 year old queer icon left on the planet. 020
Reposted by pgirvanMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 13/08/2026i have lived among mountains older than bones there is a beauty and fire to youth, but I will rest on stone older than trees on hills that watched the rings of saturn as they were born 20743106
Reposted by pgirvanJack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026You can wake up every morning in America wishing for a new think piece about men, masculinity, and how it is in crisis, and some fucking how America will deliver for you. 0223
pgirvan @pgirvan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026He was as destroyed as his car. He was as destroyed as the South. He couldn't cope. But she loved it that he couldn't cope. That he was so destroyed. On the other hand his car could explode and he could still manage to wear a white suit. He could still manage to be delightful. Ibid. p.148 001
pgirvan @pgirvan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026“Bland and sleazy is a bad combination. Sleazy and hopeless is better.” — Nancy Lemann, The Fiery Pantheon 130
pgirvan @pgirvan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Not sure the matter with me but here I sit, under a tree, rereading Nancy Lemann’s book Lives of The Saints. I expect to finish before the Jays-Red Sox game begins. I had been about to begin her second novel, Sportsman’s Paradise, but it just didn’t seem right. Not quite time. 010
pgirvan @pgirvan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Sir Keir’s resignation really has the English side rattled. 000
Reposted by pgirvanNova Scotia Archives @nsarchives.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Today is International Archives Day! The Nova Scotia Archives has existed in some capacity since April 30, 1857. You can learn more about our history here: archives.novascotia.ca/pdf/library/... written by former Provincial Archivist Bruce Fergusson in 1963.archives.novascotia.ca 031
Reposted by pgirvanWFMU @wfmu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Early notice: WFMU's Summer 2026 schedule takes effect on Monday, June 8, and runs through Sunday, September 6. As usual, some DJs are taking a break from their shows, some are returning from breaks, and some new faces/voices are joining. See the full schedule here: www.wfmu.org/table?period...wfmu.orgUpcoming Special Programs on WFMU 1125
Reposted by pgirvanLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Nancy Lemann giving us some Charles Portis here. 072
Reposted by pgirvanGrant McPhee @grantmcphee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026A vast new online resource: The Velvet Underground Myth Archive: A free, publicly accessible database of hundreds of rare press clippings documenting the rise of The Velvet Underground, methodically organised month by month. Enjoy thevelvetundergroundmyth.com #thevelvetundergroundthevelvetundergroundmyth.comThe Velvet Underground MythAn archive of The Velvet Underground through the press 13320114
