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@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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Library access iffy but possible

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Library access probable Will try to identify reproduced painting

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Intriguing – nice find / Not library accessible Unwilling to pay USD 145+ to own one of 1500 copies Probable outcome: description from publisher web site w annotation "not seen"

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This item is our only overlapper. Thus do I reciprocate with my entry, to illustrate my mode of cataloguing. 2/2

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Tartt ABCs @tartt-abc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

You seem well launched already on a complementary excursion into primary sources, enjoying direct access to esoteric realms of earlier ephemera. Your speed and reach overwhelm my expectations. In the wings, the assemblings of a fervent collector seem to lurk. 1/2

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

Happy prospecting across those weird terrains Here's hoping that later in 2026 the Catalogue steps over the publishing threshold ... The outline as posted in 2025 remains unchanged medium.com/@tartt-abc/c...

Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena

999+ Sources Discovered and Described

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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...

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

One of those scarcer entries for Catalogue of Donna Tartt Phenomena 999+ Sources Discovered and Described where writing up the description felt more like joy than job #booksky

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

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)

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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.