Rick Delaney
@RickRain04
Book editor, history and academic titles. My personal fav topics: Darwin, Charles. Joyce, James. Brown, James.
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.” ― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Happy #FaulknerConference2025 week!
July 4, 1959, the Ecuadorian government established the Galápagos National Park to protect in perpetuity the unique endemic wildlife of this volcanic archipelago 🐢🐦🌋 geo.cornell.edu/geology/Galapa…
The debate over Proust’s relation to his Jewish identity ultimately turns not just on his personal attachments but on how he represents Jewish characters in his… Source: The New York Review of Books share.google/e3JsIoXqFr7ROz…
Misquoting Hume: Jay Dyer on Piers Morgan, feat Alex Malpass youtu.be/fgBYw6Ch8YY?si… via @YouTube
Former Fleet Street veteran has acquired an atlas he believes is linked to Ulysses Source: The Irish Times share.google/SIu5iLt0ZjX1DP…
I only met Edmund White once, when he read at Bard-- he was so gracious and kind. His biography of Proust is wonderful. I was amazed that he knew who I was, but then he was like that, he knew everyone. One more great one gone ♥️ nytimes.com/2025/06/04/art…
Sad to hear about this. theguardian.com/books/2025/jun…
How Richard Ellmann’s capacious 1959 biography shaped modern life writing. 📕 Lyndall Gordon on the epic of James Joyce newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
I interviewed German experimental author Michael Lentz. Huge thanks to George Koors for facilitating the interview with his translation skills! thecollidescope.com/2025/05/30/dev… @DeepVellum
Two translations of Dante’s Paradiso will come out in the year of our Lord 2025. In July we’ll get Mary Jo Bang’s "irreverent” conclusion, published by Graywolf Press, and in August NYRB will give us D.M. Black’s 2nd installment (anyone knows if he plans on translating Inferno?).
Why is Descartes' name synonymous with mind-body dualism, why was he so convinced by this theory, and how did he explain vital activities in the body if there is no "soul"? Find out the answers on today's new podcast: historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-dual…
A Critique of Substance Dualism - Responding to @faithbecauseofreason8381 youtube.com/live/9COVx5pwQ… via @YouTube
The Infatuations by Javier Marías goodreads.com/book/show/1824…
NEW Marcel Proust's 3000-page masterpiece In Search of Lost Time might intimidate, but it also enthrals, argues Joshua Landy, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at @Stanford University. We asked him to introduce us to the most rewarding of the seven volumes that make…