@TimParksauthor
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In short, all publishing is vanity publishing... @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-features…

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A humbling from the scammers

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Replying to @artquizmuse
Musil just has to be read.
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“The Great Author ceases to be a separate entity” and becomes “a symbiosis, a collective national product”, so that many writers “resemble those little rubber pigs or donkeys with a hole in their back where you blow them up”.
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“One notices it at once, when people have successes and recognition … vanity blows them up like balloons … God preserve a good person from being recognized by the crowd”.
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What to do about praise... the-tls.com/regular-features…

Forms of recognition

A humbling from the scammers

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Replying to @Rentmeister_Fix
Not at all. There is no happy way of announcing a death. I'm grateful that you let me know.
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Replying to @Rentmeister_Fix
Oh heavens. I had no idea. Thank you for letting me know...
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Replying to @marxforcats
Tim Parks, Italian Life, on life in an Italian university...
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I magnagatti!
1899 Mode Ultrà@ultras1899_Sep 18
Replying to @ultras1899_
Une rivalité ancienne, bien davantage qu’un simple derby régional, magnifiquement narrée par Tim Parks, dans son livre "Une saison de Vérone", autour du #veronavicenza de la saison 2000/01 @TimParksauthor #HellasVerona
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Waterstone's Richmond. A rare window appearance...
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in the Moral Fables, Leopardi posited the invention of a super intelligent robot that would be a man’s perfect friend, never betraying or contradicting him. “It seems impossible to think,” he reflects, that we “cannot teach a machine to speak.”
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Cheering to see Hotel Milano appearing in Turkish!
Nedim Dertli@nedo_dertliAug 15
libre kültür'de yazdım; tim parks ve "hotel milano" 📚 evren ne kadar gürültülü olursa olsun sessizliğin kıyısında kendisiyle sohbet edenler, yaşamın çoğu kez dünyanın ağırlığını umursamayan küçük ve hafif anların dinginliğinde nefes aldığını bilirler. share.google/LetIVuGb7900vS0…
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"Worst comes to worst, disillusioned writers might turn to AI to have their work appreciatively read."
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Distressed that the pursuit of truth had merely made life more difficult, he turned to poetry and quickly became Italy’s most sublime bearer of ill tidings. @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-features…

At Leopardi’s house

Writers betrayed by readers

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Little portrait by my brother who used an old photo of me with his life drawing class at New York's School of Visual Arts... Thought it might be fun to post. instagram.com/p/DbmCjw8xhzb/…

John Parks (@john_a._parks) • Instagram photo

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Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand is released in the USA today. The first British edition has sold out...
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Replying to @womanandsphere @TheTLS
Thanks, Elizabeth. Positive Amazon reviews always welcome...
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Replying to @johnmckeag
Thanks John. There's a lot more straight travel writing in The Hero's Way. And again of a different kind in Italian Ways, my book on Italian railways.
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Replying to @womanandsphere @TheTLS
Not easy! Many thanks!
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Many thanks to Alma Books for this recommendation! Just watch out for the heat...
Alma Books@almabooksJun 23
Our favourite #book to read this Summer: Across Sicily with Garibaldi’s Thousand by Tim Parks almabooks.com/product/across… #books #nonfiction #history #sicily #nonfictionreads @TimParksauthor
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