@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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“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…

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A humbling from the scammers

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I magnagatti!
1899 Mode Ultrà@ultras1899_Sep 18
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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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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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and the secone...
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Writers as sage, writers as self-promoter... here's the piece in two photos...
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Should I be paying people to attack me? I get round-robin emails from fellow authors begging their entire contact list to buy their book, please. It’s demeaning. @thetls the-tls.com/regular-features…

Buy the book, please

Turning authorship into spectacle

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One needs to sell, but one doesn't want to pass round the collection plate... @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-features…

Buy the book, please

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How enviable, then, are those who can turn their purity into a powerful promotional tool! @TheTLS the-tls.com/regular-features…

Buy the book, please

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«Stai sbagliando la direzione delle pennate» From the New Yorker to Internazionale internazionale.it/magazine/t…

Riscoprire il mandolino - Tim Parks

In vari paesi d’Europa c’è una nuova disciplina universitaria chiamata geragogia musicale, l’educazione musicale per le persone anziane Leggi

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Good to see someone engaging seriously with The Novel, a Survival Skill. @cribbenMerrill on Substack. tcmerrill.substack.com/p/the…
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