Bernard T. Joy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Bernard T. Joy

Paul Martineau relating the story of a meeting btw Minor White & Alfred Stieglitz: "Stieglitz asked him the question - have you ever been in love? And Minor replied, yes, I have. And Stieglitz said, well, then you can be a photographer." *** M. White, Tom Murphy- San Fran. (1948) https://t.co/15gYlmcjQ6

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Just learned today that this sculpture of Miguel de Cervantes (& Don Quixote & Sancho Panza) was vandalised in 2020. I wonder what could have been the reasoning. Left: Jo Mora, 'Miguel de Cervantes Memorial' (1916), in 2020. Right: Me at the memorial, in 2010. https://t.co/DMVqnVSxmR

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Talking about scary stories, the other day I read Ray Bradbury’s ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ to a group of students and was forced to consider whether the 2026 date was not uncannily prescient given the current news cycle. Can’t hope not enough.

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I could list any Cormac McCarthy novel from The Orchard Keeper’s first pages right through to (bits & pieces of) The Passenger. The gorgeous, deep, mystic descriptions of the South/West USA. That’s a long story though…

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It is nothing but a kind of microcosmos of Communism— all that psychiatry… Why not leave their private sorrows to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess? —Timofey Pavlovich Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov)

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So odd to sit and think that Anton Chekhov died before Leo Tolstoy and yet had he lived to be an old man he could have been around to read some of the last works (almost) of William Faulkner or Ernest Hemingway and the first works of James Baldwin. Just weird.

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There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away —Emily Dickinson

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Join us this weekend for a celebration of love, sex, & gender in the works of American modernist William Faulkner! “And now... we’re going to talk about love.” —Absalom, Absalom! https://t.co/zpqCwVC5bc

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This question came to me in a dream but now I’m up I’m still taking it seriously. How inspired by William Faulkner’s Sanctuary was David Lynch when he made this one?: https://t.co/npudkQ3Q5J

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@Faulkner_UK Oh yes! Joe Orton is wonderful. I know Loot best. He, Alan Bleasdale, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach all occupy a special place for me and I associate them with one another. Alan Bennett too but maybe not to the same extent, just for me. I love him but think of him slightly differently.