The Dark Secrets of Denis Johnson’s ‘Train Dreams’ @wyatt-williams.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/m...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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Vladimir Nabokov’s Best Books: A Guide. @nytimes.com ​ www.nytimes.com/article/vlad...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM

Where to start with Saul Bellow (and why you should) | American Masters | @pbs.org ​ www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM

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Letter from a Region in My Mind. “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” By James Baldwin, November 9, 1962 @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM

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My street (reimagined). #SketchUp

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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Alison Gopnik, The Gardener And The Carpenter

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Reading : Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka. “Algorithmic recommendations control the majority of what we see and hear online. Though they promise personalization, the net result of so many algorithms is a homogenization of culture.“ www.kylechayka.com/filterworld

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) December 21, 2024 at 10:55 AM

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Reading : Language City. The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. ​#RossPerlin #GroveAtlantic Cover art : Ralph Fasanella "New York City, 1957"​ groveatlantic.com/book/languag...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Reading : Abundance. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @dkthomp.bsky.social "We have a startling abundance of the goods that fill a house and a shortage of what's needed to build a good life." www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abunda...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) March 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Alison Gopnik www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/p...

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM

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George Saunders, writing in this week's New Yorker.

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— Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) November 17, 2024 at 11:01 AM

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1981 pic.twitter.com/GWYnd8Utwg

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) April 27, 2022

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Calvino

Salman Rushdie on Italo Calvino @lrb https://t.co/cqHgHst6DZ

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) April 23, 2023

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I'd like to personally apologize to the ESL folks on behalf of all native English speakers

But much like Japan's three alphabets, this must be memorized to truly achieve total fluency pic.twitter.com/nfkCH9D8Mt

— Iron Spike (@Iron_Spike) April 18, 2023

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If I read a better novel this year than "Some Hellish" by Nicholas Herring, it’ll have to be right some brilliant.

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) January 19, 2023

The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers - Jan. 21, 2023: Nicholas Herring on Some Hellish https://t.co/bzGGBxPcJH

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) January 24, 2023

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Talked to the long-talented Ian McEwan about his new novel, Lessons. Fascinating guy and book. Still thinking about both weeks later. https://t.co/p0OLycb021 pic.twitter.com/gsGw43A8cb

— Ian Brown (@BrownoftheGlobe) October 1, 2022

Ian McEwan on ageing, legacy and the attack on his friend Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s beyond the edge of human cruelty’ @LisaAllardice @guardian https://t.co/FaZLUzRPva

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) September 7, 2022

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* A Personal History of Modern Ireland.

— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) June 27, 2022

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