#Calvino

Many, if not most, great writers were temperamentally conservative: Swift, Austen, Tolstoy, Kipling, Claudel, T.S. Eliot, (later) Auden, Larkin, Powell, Elizabeth Bowen, Waugh, Mishima, (later) Bellow, Sybille Bedford, Gene Wolfe.
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HOW TO BLEED IN THE FIRST LINE:Because I grew up ugly, I have decent "first sentences" when I meet people. It's hard for me to make a good impression. "Ugly"
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1) L'Estat espanyol es troba immers en una espiral de decadència que s'està accelerant, provocada per 9 crisis simultànies que estan afeblint l'Estat. Cal que aprofitem aquesta feblesa creixent de
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¿De verdad es tan bueno el acuerdo alcanzado por el Consejo Europeo? ¿Están justificadas las valoraciones excesivamente eufóricas sobre el plan de recuperación de la Unión Europea? ¿Se romperá con
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What are you reading while being safe at home? We recommend the delightful LOSING VENICE by @ScottStavrou & it is currently on sale! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732195684/ #amreading #Venice What are you reading while
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Books Sam has read in 2020: a thread. Hopefully. I always start this kind of thing with the best of intentions and then by February it is forgotten. But I
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belated 2020 reading thread - the buried giant, kazuo ishiguro - reminded me more of wai ashes of time more than i would've expected. genre, memory, ishiguro confronting violence more
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I am flying back to Sydney for a little bit, and will be self-isolating from Thursday onwards. Given that I will not be able to do any bookselling at @mcnallyjackson
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