Vladimir Nabokov’s Best Books: A Guide. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/article/vlad...
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Where to start with Saul Bellow (and why you should) | American Masters | @pbs.org www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@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...
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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My street (reimagined). #SketchUp
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) February 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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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
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@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...
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@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...
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@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...
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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George Saunders, writing in this week's New Yorker.
— Frank Murphy 馃嚭馃嚘 馃嚠馃嚜 馃嚚馃嚘 (@thesidewalkballet.bsky.social) November 17, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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Calvino
— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) April 23, 2023
Salman Rushdie on Italo Calvino @lrb https://t.co/cqHgHst6DZ
I'd like to personally apologize to the ESL folks on behalf of all native English speakers
— Iron Spike (@Iron_Spike) April 18, 2023
But much like Japan's three alphabets, this must be memorized to truly achieve total fluency pic.twitter.com/nfkCH9D8Mt
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
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
Thread... Thomas Piketty’s new book tracks an arc bending to greater socioeconomic equality over the last 200 years, a trend advanced by activist social movements and historic upheavals, revolutions. https://t.co/lEo2IFdCG6
— Frank Murphy (@FrankMurphy49) June 18, 2022
Worldwide life expectancy at birth has risen from 26yrs on average in 1820 to 72yrs in 2020. The literacy rate in the world population 15yrs or older 1820-2020 has risen from 12% to 85%. — A Brief History of Equality, Thomas Piketty. pic.twitter.com/B119bj93Sb
— The Economic Garden (@Economicgarden1) June 13, 2022
