… Plane crash in Northeast Philadelphia leaves multiple houses on fire, causes explosion . i grew up not far from North Philly airport. My ...

… British university puts trigger warning on Greek mythology for ‘distressing’ content. They've only been around for more than two mil...

… I have looked down the saddest city lane

… Episode 623 – Matt Madden.

… A change of mood

… Milo De Angelis — Gee

… “New Year” by Bei Dao.

… Etienne Gilson’s essential book on philosophy and its history. [Hat tip, Dave lull.)

… Do you still have horses?

… Artis Bernard — Water

  I didn't know much about Janet Malcolm, but this past week, I finished Still Pictures , a posthumous collection of essays loosely focu...

… Today’s Poem: A Flower Given to My Daughter .

… The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey.

… I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

… Constellation of Genius: Miłosz, Camus, Einstein, and Weil.

… Robert Creeley — Night

… The Day of Judgement

Mexico City 1: Some Observations & Comparisons

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Bruce Charlton's Notions: The poet Stevie Smith (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… The Art of Fiction No. 78 James Baldwin.

A Fork in the Road with Glenn Reynolds | Starting Strength Radio #301

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… They will come to you in dream and in waking.

… Did Bernard Mandeville deserve his reputation? (At tip, Dave Lull.)

The Little-Known Story of John Wayne's Deathbed Conversion to Catholicism

… The Last Painting.

… A story can change your life.

… W. S. Merwin — Harm’s Way.

(12) David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film | Official Trailer | MasterClass - YouTube (Hat tip, Felix Giordano.)

Bash Bish Falls | Aaron Poochigian | The New York Review of Books (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Enough With Changing the Clock - WSJ [Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

PETER HITCHENS: God forgive me, I was one of the millions of young men who wanted to be Bob Dylan. Here's what the new film DOESN'T ...

~ So early in the morning

… Adam O. Davis — The Following Should Not Be Questioned

10 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes That Reveal His Haunted, Beautiful Soul

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Can poetry matter? Robert Frost weighs in.

… I am a part of it.

… Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and playwright, dies at 95 : NPR

… Though I keep this from my children.

~ Vern Rutsala — The Mystery of the Lost Shoes .

… Trump 47: A Civilizational Fork in the Road.

… Because a fire was in my head.

Paul Davis On Crime: On This Day In History Edgar Allan Poe Was Born

… Kent Jorgensen Ozarow — Bottles

… Blogging Note

Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher Guerin: The Future

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  Much has been written about A Streetcar Named Desire  -- and I won't attempt to rehash that here. But having just read the play for th...

… This is the feast of our mortality,

Paul Davis On Crime: My Washington Times On Crime Column On The Life Of Jimmy Breslin

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… Claribel Alegría:— Documentary.

— Lisa Russ Spaar — The Geese.

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… Break, Break, Break.

… Print Book Sales Saw a Small Sales Increase in 2024 (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

… ‘Geoffrey Chaucer’ Review: A Worldly, Well-Traveled Poet. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)

The Integrationist Fantasy - by William F. Vallicella

… Hobbitry" by Guy Davenport . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Ending the war.

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… And I dropped down, and down —

… Elaine Equi — Surface Tension.

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… On the occasion of COVID’s attempt to destroy me

… The Annotated Big Sleep: A Look Back At The Late, Great Raymond Chandler And His Classic Crime Novel, 'The Big Sleep'

… This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The U.S. takeover of Canada, and mice

… Raúl Zurita — The Pacific Is the Sky

… The ashes of Mark Twain.

  I've written on the blog before about Rachel Cusk. I think she's a singular novelist: her Faye trilogy represents a high point in ...

… On the Other Side of Goodbye

… an interview of G. Emil Reutter

13 Thoughts From Jacques Barzun on Cultural Decline (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Epistle to a Former Friend by A. M. Juster | Articles | First Things (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… We need to stop shrieking about a ‘climate emergency’

… It bore an apple bright .

Robert Wolff Obituary (1933 - 2025) - Legacy Remembers (Hat tip, Dave Lull.'

… A Diagram of My Life — Gerald Murnane

… Virginia Chase Sutton — At the Barry M. Goldwater Gunnery Range.

My struggle with GBS - The Spectator World (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… David Wagoner — Love Still Has Something of the Sea.

… A message from T. S. Eliot . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… Lucy Grealy — Ward 10

Grades of Prayer - by William F. Vallicella

… Blogging Note — maybe an hour before burning out .

"The Sensation of Seeing": How T.S. Eliot Defamiliarizes the Christmas Story - Front Porch Republic . (Hat tip, Dave lull.)

… href="https://beyondtheyoughiogheny.blogspot.com/2025/01/blizzard.html">Blizzard .

… Benjamin Péret — If It’s Night.

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… Schools Need Metal Detectors To Prevent Classroom Shootings

Our Art of Fiction Interview with Hanif Kureishi

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… The Astronomer.