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bryanacharles.bsky.social
Writer in midst of disorienting midlife free fall / Author of a novel, a memoir, and a book about Pavement written for 33 1/3 / Broken Hearts Are Blue guitarist / Amateur Proust scholar https://medium.com/@bryanalistaircharles
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Watched a bunch of movies this weekend: A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957) À ma soeur! (Catherine Breillat, 2001) The Monkey (Osgood Perkins, 2025) Une vraie jeune fille (Catherine Breillat, 1976) Sex Is Comedy (Catherine Breillat,2002) All except The Monkey @criterion.bsky.social #filmsky

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We defer to Richard Howard on this. From a 1988 NY Times article by Richard Bernstein: Howard believes that the phrase “time was” is a brilliant stroke. www.nytimes.com/1988/09/25/m...

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Du côté de chez Swann first line and translations: "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure." Moncrieff (& Moncrieff/Kilmartin rev.) "For a long time I used to go to bed early." Moncrieff (Kilmartin/Enright rev.) "For a long time I would go to bed early." James Grieve "Time was when I

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Found this cool copy of the Painter bio--vol. 2 only--at Pegasus Berkeley. I have read the Tadié and Carter bios, so far not Painter-- who looks to have been a very sober-minded scholar indeed! NB The Listener a fantastic name for a magazine.

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50th birthday present to myself... Proust's complete correspondence in a gorgeous set like 5 beautiful bibles

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Loneliest Redbox. Jingletown, Oakland CA. 24 January 2025. #filmsky #physicalmedia

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I wrote a piece about the sudden death of my dog CJ in the depths of the pandemic. medium.com/@bryanalista...

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My daughter and her friend recently watched THE BIRDS. Then made a packet of "Bird Tips." Here is one of their pieces of advice. #hitchcock #filmsky

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