A favorite spot to visit during the #Halloween Season #Pittsburgh 👻#TGIF 
#Friday — my reading spot is festive 🎃 #JonFosse #Pittsburgh 
Francisco de Goya: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters #art #october 
Cheering for my nephew tonight at his Dek Hockey Game! 🏒🥅 
I read one book so far. I’m more familiar with Leonora’s prose & art. All inspiring.
You must know a great deal more about him than me— thank you for sharing this. I did not know you had a connection to Lebanon.
Camus walked in his different worlds with compassion & wisdom— I’ve also read praise & criticism about him
from both sides.
Here is a page from Claire Messud’s book— the literary critic whose article about Camus that I shared. And a picture of my grandfather (I tuck photos in my books)— my grandfather worked in the Steel Mills & I love this photo— he was probably getting ready to go hunting. I still write letters to my older cousin— my grandfather used to take him out & hunt. My grandfather was also wise. My cousin lives out in the wilds of Arizona. 
and he was able to discuss the challenging comments in the crowd with wisdom.
Thanks! One of my favorite places to walk— especially during autumn. Today— saw people dressed up — some in gowns & others in fall flannels— for photo shoots. Lots of outdoor weddings happen in this spot as well.
Tuesday ☀️☀️ #October #Autumn #Walk 
Autumn Beauty on my afternoon walk
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A literary take on imagination— used for the purpose of art. Only on nostr— absolutely not— I’m thinking of the first time I read Chaucer—Canterbury Tales— in my Catholic High School English Class.
I see people are using the word “cunt” on nostr today. Reminds me of this piece: “Aside from the "dick beat," Emre has taken up the project of championing forgotten female writers — "the cunt beat," she joked. She has written about "modernism's forgotten mystic" Mary Butts, the surrealist Leonora Carrington, and Susan Taubes, whose 1969 feminine rage anthem "Divorcing," written from the perspective of the protagonist's severed head, was published just days before Taubes drowned herself.”
I read Taubes this summer— great stuff
https://www.businessinsider.com/merve-emre-book-literary-critic-new-yorker-wesleyan-2023-8
#Morning read (switching back & forth from audio to text— and I’ve never seen the movie).
His prose…🔥”She watched him, not unkindly. She smiled. Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten, can they? No mam. Alejandra will be in Mexico with her mother for two weeks. Then she will be here for the summer. He swallowed. Whatever my appearance may suggest, I am not a particularly old fashioned woman. Here we live in a small world. A close world. Alejandra and I disagree strongly. Quite strongly in fact. She is much like me at that age and I seem at times to be struggling with my own past self. I was unhappy as a child for reasons that are no longer important. But the thing in which we are united, my niece and I … She broke off. She set the cup and saucer to one side. The polished wood of the table held a round shape of breath where they’d stood that diminished from the edges in and vanished. She looked up. I had no one to advise me, you see. Perhaps I would not have listened anyway. I grew up in a world of men. I thought this would have prepared me to live in a world of men but it did not. I was also rebellious and so I recognize it in others. Yet I think that I had no wish to break things. Or perhaps only those things that wished to break me….” ~Cormac McCarthy
#books— scroll down for the bit about Alia Hanna Habib
“This she managed by taking on clients early in their careers and convincing publishers to trust her taste. Sometimes on the basis of just one excellent article or small-press book, Habib started turning semi-unknowns into household names, like Clint Smith, Hanif Abdurraqib, Merve Emre (whom Habib has represented since her essay on female sociopaths was published on Digg)…”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/new-york-inside-power-list.html