#nyrb classics

[tea-tuesday]

from the drafts.... pics from when we had good weather back in august and i would head downtown to read outside :)) 🌞📚💗

[tholdones]

[oldshrewsburyian]

[loosefittingbedsheet]

Eileen Chang - Written on Water (1945)

[aeoniancoeur]

getting prepared for my summer 2026 reading phase

tbr:

- stoner by john williams (first nyrb!!)

- a room with a view by e.m forster

- pnin by vladimir nabokov

- bonjour tristesse by françois sagan (sec time reading it)

i really want more summer books to read! i also really want to buy and read more nyrb books please recommend me some that you guys enjoy!

[novae953]

john williams; stoner

look! i am alive….

[jonathanjudge]

[sovexedtofind]

...pity is a confoundedly two-edged business. Anyone who doesn't know how to deal with it should keep his hands, and, above all, his heart, off it. It is only at first that pity, like morphia, is a solace to the invalid, a remedy, a drug, but unless you know the correct dosage and when to stop, it becomes a virulent poison. The first few injections do good, they soothe, they deaden the pain. [...] Inevitably there comes a moment when one has to say 'No', and then one must not mind the other person's hating one more for this ultimate refusal than if one had never helped him at all.

Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity