Thomas J. Kitson

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Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, PhiloSophia. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship. Working now on Iliazd's _Wordless Sentence_ and _Parisites_.

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Distressed to see a splintered tree— A victim of the heat? A dress rehearsal meant for me? A hasty truck’s retreat? All kinds of rotten grade the hill, Congealed in liquid ripe, Aspiring to dense green until It’s August. Just my type.

This somehow got past me back in March. jacobin.com/2024/03/chri...

Christianity Was Always for the Poorjacobin.com From the Sermon on the Mount through the Apostolic Age, the first Christians preached against wealth.

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In fishing towns and villages, the most haunted place isn't some pub with spurious tales of tunnels and spectral smugglers, but the causeway and steps down to harbour. For many ghosts cling to the infrastructure of labour, cling to the working that defined their lives – C. Josiffe

When I look up the weather on Google and they show the cloud with three raindrops, it looks too much to me like we're about to get some nuclear fallout.

Iliazd lived with Gala and Max Ernst in Eaubonne after Éluard disappeared early in 1924. Some accounts claim both #Iliazd and Gala painted scarves for Delaunay to make money, until Gala heard at last from Éluard in May and sold his art collection to finance her trip to meet him.

Why, yes, there _is_ an #Iliazd angle here. Delaunay employed Iliazd in 1922 to paint scarves (see his zaum sleeve design posted several days ago), which allowed him to leave his job as a parking valet. Robert Delaunay drew Iliazd's portrait at the time.

More from Sonia Delaunay: Living Art at Bard Graduate Center. An early color advertising film, most of it featuring models in Delaunay's designs. She appears at the end, peeking over a curtain of her signature scarves.

n DC for a couple days, adjacent to NATO summit. V. unexpectedly received recognition from Ukraine for work supporting study of Ukrainian language and culture. We happened to be staying at Boris Nemtsov Plaza, across from Russia's embassy.

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 6,1962

Recently learned of the passing of Prof. Richard F. Gustafson, the person who drew me to Columbia for graduate study. harriman.columbia.edu/in-memoriam-...

In Memoriam: Richard F. Gustafson | The Harriman Instituteharriman.columbia.edu

I'm liking May Sinclair's _Mary Olivier: A Life_ very much. Here's another of those hymns (this by William Cowper) that inspire my bagatelles. Does nonsense become crystal-clear in the child's hearing? Or does accepted meaning turn to utter nonsense?

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#BookHistory #RareBooks folks: anyone ever take a course at the American Academy of Bookbinding?

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It’s hard to overstate just how tragic this is. If you’re an LGBTQ+ person or have immediate family that is, the opportunities to receive an education in book arts in a state where your rights are protected are dwindling.

Wells College in NY is closing. It’s renowned for its book arts program/summer classes. Another small liberal arts college casualty of the Walmartification of American higher ed

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Another fine post from James Conway at Strange Flowers, with startling illustrations, on the tragic lives of the dancers Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt: The Mask Dancers strangeflowers.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/t... #Weimar

The mask dancersstrangeflowers.wordpress.com Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt: fanatical creativity, wild performances and violent death in Weimar Germany

Very grateful for my first opportunity to view this sleeve design up close at Bard Graduate Center's Sonia Delaunay: Living Art exhibit. (Third photo is #Iliazd 's signature buried in the mix, while his pseudonym was still feminine in the period when it was freshly minted.)

Mycology might pay your way If you are not too wise In putting on a passion play To flog the friendly skies. A trilogy in leather bound Looms slightly out of reach. A filter free of pith was found To pit a fearsome peach.

Went before the holiday to Bard Graduate Center for Sonia Delaunay: Living Art, which you can still see this weekend. Here's the Simultaneous Dress from 1913.

It would have been interesting if Stephanie Saul had talked to Yale officials for this article. I'm sure Yale's board of trustees knows exactly why they made this hire. And I fear that by fall, Columbia will look a lot like Stony Brook, maybe worse. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...

Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook Universitywww.nytimes.com In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.

Yes, shame on @nytimes.com for giving space on their editorial page to that deeply cynical piece yesterday, but here's a recent column worth reading. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/o...

Opinion | A Dismissed Abortion Case Points to Internal Tensions and Dysfunction at the Supreme Courtwww.nytimes.com The court dismisses an abortion case it now says it should never have accepted, opening a window on internal tensions.

Busy sultry afternoon at the birdbath in Central Park's Conservatory Garden yesterday.

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Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jPg...

Meat Puppets - Lake of Firewww.youtube.com The original recorded version.

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Hey look. I guess the president in Brazil doesn't get immunity. How can the country possibly function?

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

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The Yannis Ritsos verses in which Greek antiquity and the present exist simultaneously—and Phaedra smokes too many cigarettes.

Saw Powell and Pressburger's "Tales of Hoffmann" at Museum of Modern Art last night. V. was deeply repulsed, and we spent some time diagnosing why. My verdict: alien to camp sensibility. Reread Sontag's locus classicus today, and I think the verdict was correct.

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“I once heard Ben Webster playing his heart out on a ballad. All of a sudden he stopped. I asked him, 'Why did you stop, Ben?' He said, 'I forgot the lyrics.'” - Ahmad Jamal 📷 Ahmad Jamal by Christian Ducasse, 1999

The strange love in "I hate Russia for forcing me to leave her" is explored in #Iliazd 's _PhiloSophia_ (coincident with Schmemann's "first wave"). Take Salmon Suvarov, American-born son of Russian Jews who fled the late Empire's pogroms. + www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/o...

Opinion | Putin Has Tainted Russian Greatnesswww.nytimes.com Russian émigrés have always had complicated feelings about their homeland. The war in Ukraine adds shame to the mix.

In biblical scenarios The patriarch’s assent Is liberating, scary. Those Could not be what we meant. For certain shades of black and tan A remedy exists: Remove the sting from nettles; fan The icebox. He insists.

Time for New York City Council to review the decade-old "memorandum of understanding" with NYPD and give the CCRB *real* prosecutorial powers, without a veto from the Commissioner. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/n...

How the N.Y.P.D. Quietly Shuts Down Discipline Cases Against Officerswww.nytimes.com Police Commissioner Edward Caban has often relied on an obscure authority to intervene when officers are accused of serious wrongdoing, often handing out little to no punishment.

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Don't be fooled by the bland headline, Jamelle absolutely bodies Bret Stephens in this conversation. A representative bit: