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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Donna Tartt – A Collector's Reference ( 21 June 2026 ) github.com/thefloppytac...

Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

... while Donna Tartt deplores AI ... Catalogs, canons, and curated lists will become more valuable says Hollis Robbins btw AI has proved of little use in the making of Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/universiti...

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Universities would prefer not to.

AI and the degree monopoly

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

naming The Secret History / Donna Tartt as your sorta guilty fav ––––– class this act as dropping into and out of Campden College ––––– Beyond Bad and Good or Jenzeits von Güt und geSchlecht ––––– @sibyllacumae.bsky.social @jessesword.com

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In her latter days Donna Tartt chooses to boost J F Martel –––––––––––––––– This new essay speaks to me far more than his 2015 book ––– aeon.co/essays/human... ––– Yet I persist in peering into the realm beyond their adored graven images ––– toujours au-delà

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Here's a draft entry for a fugitive Donna Tartt text. Has anyone willing to share captured more than the two paragraphs quoted by Hooper?

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This substacker just typologized Donna Tartt into a Meyers-Briggs inspired schema for writers ( translating back as INTP ) theultimatewritingguide.substack.com/p/i-wanted-m...

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i wanted mbti for writers. so i made one. (The 16 Writing Types)

I spent my formative teen years obsessed with personality tests.

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Hoax & Rumor make up one minor class of Donna Tartt phenomena ––––––– Tartt herself possesses epigone hoaxter tendencies in some measure traceable to maestro Poe ––––––– As within so without this is one of multiple instances of Tarttish grifting by MediaMass ––––––– en.mediamass.net/people/donna...

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Donna Tartt Highest-Paid Author in the World - Mediamass

It's been a rough year for the author, but at least she has her millions of dollars to ease the pain. 62-year-old Donna Tartt has taken the No. 1 spot on People With Money’s top 10 highest-paid author...

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Did you know that Donna Tartt has refused to let Penguin rejacket The Secret History, which is why the standard paperback has the same cover it did in 1993?

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

@moshebaum.bsky.social If you like, happy to credit you for discovery of items that expand the listing in section A – Here's a no-library-access item listed as "not seen": A-2023 Donna Tartt. Nahrhafte Glückskekse. Wohndesign Goodlife issue 3 (May-June 2023) 86-87

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Dostoyevsky & The Secret History / Donna Tartt ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– astute new essay vestvfu.elpub.ru/jour/article... #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

7 of 7 = Dust-Ups & Back-and-Forths Early on, Donna Tartt adopts a prevailing stance of indifference to and ignorance about whatever reviewing has to say about her novels. But ... medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

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How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

Seven Takes

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

6 of 7 = Never Never Land With the exception of one Russian formalist, who writes in Russian, no commentator has laid very bare how Donna Tartt writes the same novel, again and again and again. medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

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How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

5 of 7 = Fan Affections a phalanx of fandom can bristle with hostility at critique of "Donna Tartt" medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

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How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

4 of 7 = Russian Reception & Middlebrow starting from around 2015 the Russian scholarly establishment has mobbed all of Donna Tartt's novels medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

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How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

3 of 7 = Lili Anolik in pursuit of the secret history of Donna Tartt herself a spirit of tribute turns into unanticipated consternation medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

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How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

2 of 7 = Academic Citation something about Donna Tartt's writing seems to repel academic analysts medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

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How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

1 of 7 = “Donna Tartt” Ab Ovo • a cosmopolite straight out of Grenada Mississippi • an accumulating body of text twins with a curated celebrity persona • a Cinderella slipperiness medium.com/@tartt-abc/h... #booksky

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How “Donna Tartt” Eludes Critique

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In 1500 words Nurayn Khan exhausts and deplores a tangential harvardness, whose essence is distilled from narrator Richard's attractions to a straightforward elitism. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Secret History / Donna Tartt – #booksky theharvardpoliticalreview.com/tartt-secret...

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Harvard and The Secret History - Harvard Political Review

Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” in many ways, mirrors Harvard’s elitist culture, exposing the often harmful social dynamics that exclusive social spaces create.

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This 23 March 2026 podcast owns the "one-off on TSH" podium ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Solid content & engaging rhythm ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Secret History / Donna Tartt #booksky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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The Secret History: Dark Academia, Greek Myth, and Murder

Podcast Episode · The Book Club · 24 March · 1hr 23min

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Lotte Houwink ten Cate age 35 looks back twelve years on "distant" immersive reading of The Secret History / Donna Tartt

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

–––––––––––––––––––– Three so's say so-so –––––––––––––––––––– Brian Vales @brian-vales.bsky.social who teaches English at Lycée Condorcet Paris 9e will not be joining the cult of Donna Tartt

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Is Lili Anolik emulating Donna Tartt's protracting immersion in her fourth novel by foot-dragging on that third & final crack at the Bennington saga? "My desire has to come back" Deal w Scribners notwithstanding –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– www.vanityfair.com/style/story/... –––––––––– #booksky

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"Didion & Babitz" Author Lili Anolik Can’t Stop Digging Up Literary Dirt

The Vanity Fair contributing editor, who has also tangled with the tumult of Bennington ’86 and Traci Lords, on why she’ll never tire of writing about “people fighting and fucking and influencing each...

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Statistic: Out of about 102,000 words in Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 7 = "vibe(s)" / 1 = "algorithm" Not-quoted-per-se status = 4 instances of vibe The 1 instance of "algorithm" happens to quote Tartt Fancy that one … @penny.hailey.at

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

When @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social goes insane w Claude Code to hack out a slice-and-dice on the lit establishment – sinykin.substack.com/p/power-rank... – Donna Tartt unsurprisingly does not make it onto his "weird" list of the Power FiftyOne ( obvs how a Maecenas obviates the NEA )

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The Secret History / Donna Tartt as « a narrative that is less concerned with what happens than with how longing transforms perception » Last week from Sarah Maria Lillig this 1254-word essay sarahmarialillig.substack.com/p/looking-be... #booksky

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Looking Beneath the Surface of Superficiality

On Donna Tartt’s The Secret History

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

«The Secret History» by Donna Tartt (1992) is the origin … of this book … ———————————————————— Happy P-Day to Classicist Sophie Mills 2 February 2026 ———————————————————— Puzzle: Can you spot the textual error in the Seducers paragraph? Hint: metathesis ———————————————————— #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Donna Tartt hot-pink blurbed for Edward St. Aubyn #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

… I Want to Burn this Place Down … Maybe that resonant title activated the author-bot because Tartt once posed « Tribulation » as a title possibility for The Little Friend (2002) ? ———————— Tribulation being the burned-down Mississippi Tara that housed the Cleve family back when

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Suburban Mayhem (2006) resonates with The Secret History / Donna Tartt (1992) • Whydunnit • Two murders • Oblique incest [ More details in following reply-skeet ] www.imdb.com/title/tt0450... #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

✣✣✣ in 2025 ✢✣✣ Ruan Felipe Madela Lima orcid.org/0009-0008-63... published two unusually useful academic articles about The Secret History / Donna Tartt

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Bunny the antagonist turns into protagonist because Richard is so not there ——————————————— The Secret History / Donna Tartt

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

since Sarah Purnell intuits sunset for Dark Academia I'll keep an eye peeled for scarier waning glimmers —————————————— thedarkacademicalsbookclub.substack.com/p/is-dark-ac...

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Is Dark Academia dying?

Rip.

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Ultraviolet seems to own the spectrum for covers of books about The Secret History / Donna Tartt (and English not the language) #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Experiment: Use Gemini as an AI bibliographical assistant Testbed Question: Find the 2025 essays about Donna Tartt Conclusion: Gemini is a tiny clod of sod for a patient plower to bust #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

... unwrapped & rapt ... Christmas Day 2025 this year Sweden published a book about The Secret History / Donna Tartt 👍 Moa Ekbom 👍 @quosego.bsky.social 👍 #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Donna Tartt talks to Antonio Monda www.ilfoglio.it/cultura/2025...

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

These July & September skeets from @lizthegringa.bsky.social map a corner of Tarttlandia more usefully than so many of the earnest essays ... Donna Tartt ... #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

To illustrate research perspectives made possible by the forthcoming ——— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described ——— My new longish essay – Dark Academia in Early 1990s New York City ——— #booksky #blackbooksky #vampires medium.com/@tartt-abc/d...

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Dark Academia in Early 1990s New York City

The Addiction Jostles The Secret History

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Forthcoming Catalogue of Phenomena Generated by Readings of "Donna Tartt" ——— republished from Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 102 (spring 2025) ——— #booksky ——— medium.com/@tartt-abc/f...

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Forthcoming Catalogue of Phenomena Generated by Readings of “Donna Tartt”

Announcement via Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Formal Notice to Academic Litcritters ———————————— Russia owns Donna Tartt ———————————— Latest evidence for my claim: K.M. Baranova & N.S. Shalimova Main characters in D. Tartt’s prose: exploring the hero   #booksky #russia

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Pessl's inventio = transcribe Donna Tartt ? ————— art student … labyrinth of wit and murder a cultural phenomenon … meteoric rise shunned formal interviews … staged photo ops astronomical bids … never married ————— page from Darkly / Marisha Pessl - 2024 #DarkAcademia #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

John Banville on Donna Tartt 6 Sept 2011 ——— Looks like Banville has more than one recollection of that one Miami evening ——— #anecdote #cosmopolitanism

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

John Banville on Donna Tartt 22 Oct 2024 ——— Funny thing I've had precisely the same experience without ever spending even that one evening with the persona ——— The Mysteries of Self-Replication Echo the Oread #offstaging #anecdote

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

When queried by a bibliographer the synthetic proclivities of an AI cost efforts & yield frustrations like these 3 ghosts of works that Donna Tartt never wrote: ————————— "The Writer's Life" "The Spirit of the Place" "A Gloom of Pearls" ————————— Yet this last title entices me no end #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

some Donna Tartt phenomena exclude themselves from The Catalogue one method is to paywall & to dis-library & then to come across as too insignificant for this cataloguer to fork out for may each such phenomenon self-consume & disappear forever yours too Gyles Brandreth ✣ ✣ ✣ #booksky ✣ ✣ ✣

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

ChatGPT confesses it has a long way to go to "know" anything reliable about the published writings of Donna Tartt ... unlike ——————————————————— Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered & Described ——————————————————— #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Who teams up to bestsellerize All the Pretty Horses / Cormac McCarthy in May 1992? —————————— agent Amanda Urban publisher Sonny Mehta editor Gary Fisketjon designer Chip Kidd —————————— The very same quartet bestsellerizes The Secret History / Donna Tartt in September 1992 —————————— #booksky

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It was around Easter time that magistrician Donna Tartt wrote the Bunny to death in signature purple prose www.mentalfloss.com/easter-bunny... #histoires #booksky

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The Surprisingly Controversial Origins of the Easter Bunny

Hares were once linked to a Germanic Pagan goddess who never even existed.

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

? The next Donna Tartt ? blurbles @waterstones.bsky.social Lead-times in months 15 : TSH / 115 : TLF / 60 : TGF Back in fall 2013 some "idea" "excited" Tartt – but still no content indication Now into her sixties Tartt may be too smart to try to mfg one more teenager #booksky

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