Charles Arrowsmith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Charles Arrowsmith

But despite his preoccupation with death and loftier philosophical purpose, Knausgaard remains one of the great chroniclers of the moment-by-moment experience of life... acutely in tune with the simultaneity of life’s majesty and banality.

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Charles Arrowsmith

Ahhh lovely insightful tribute to the comic genius of Richmal Crompton as (Just) William turns 100. Splendid work by @edrowett and team! https://t.co/SazHdFSJYp

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Charles Arrowsmith

Other things I'd add in a heartbeat: • Proust Among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie, probably my favourite book about him • Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret, who was his devoted housekeeper for the last few years of his life • Proust by Roger Shattuck, despite the dodgy diagrams

Charles Arrowsmith

“how cruel that we must wake each time to answer to the same name, revive the same memories, take up the same habits and stupidities that we shouldered the day before and lay down to sleep.” —Helen DeWitt (@helendewitt), The Last Samurai, p123

Charles Arrowsmith

Ahhh lovely insightful tribute to the comic genius of Richmal Crompton as (Just) William turns 100. Splendid work by @edrowett and team! https://t.co/SazHdFSJYp

Charles Arrowsmith

Dreamt that Glenda Jackson offered me a wad of banknotes to stage-manage a shambolic musical performance of James Joyce’s Ulysses that she was directing where the props were all chocolate (e.g. Toblerone)

Charles Arrowsmith

Listened to The Shards' sun-drenched blood-soaked tale unfold on the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast on moonlit runs through the long COVID winter of 2020/21 and now it's a book that I quite enjoyed https://t.co/hPtmmQVeD6

Charles Arrowsmith

“Like many technical innovations, home video ‘saves time,’ while leaching the flavor out of the time it saves.” —Gary Indiana, “Movie Rites,” in Fire Season: Selected Essays 1984–2021, p282

Charles Arrowsmith

Starry-eyed seeing Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb talk about their five-decade working relationship at @nypl tonight 🤩 https://t.co/3uDSKK7yJe

Charles Arrowsmith

This book has been sitting on my shelf for some time and now this thread makes me want to give up everything else and just read Blood Meridian https://t.co/ZNfNNtGzOF