I love Fermor. This book was amazing. A Time of Gifts also wonderful.
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for putting in another good word for A Time of Gifts. That'll very likely be the next one I try.
@johnhaggerty4396
3 ай бұрын
An old friend, James Campbell, wrote a profile of Patrick Leigh Fermor for the Guardian which may still be seen online. I can see I will need to get this new edition of A Time To Keep Silence, which I read decades ago with Patrick's other books. Thanks.
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
Thank you for this comment! I am going to search out this profile. Where did you meet James?
@johnhaggerty4396
3 ай бұрын
@@leafyconcern Jim Campbell I met in Glasgow in 1971-72. He interviewed Alex Trocchi for a magazine I edited. Editing The New Edinburgh Review, Jim wrote to James Baldwin, and visited him several times in south of France. Jim's memoir *Just Go Down to the Road* was published by Polygon a few years ago. He wrote a biography of Baldwin. We met in London last year, the first time since 1986 or so. His book *N.B. - A Walk Through the TLS* appeared last year.
@donaldkelly3983
3 ай бұрын
I am addicted to collecting NYRB editions. I read another NYRB Fermor book called The Time of Gifts, part of a trilogy about his walk across Europe before the Second World War. It's a good intro to Fermor. He had a very interesting life, especially as a guerilla fighter against the Nazis in Greece. Read more Fermor!
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
I’d love to! I think my plan will be to check some of them out from the library - see whichever ones they have
@samwisegrangee
3 ай бұрын
Fermor writes the best prose. This is on my reading list for this year.
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
It's really well-baked prose. Like a complex sourdough. It is pleasant to be around. It's pleasant to sort of chew on. Chewy prose. Yeah, I got some of his other books on my radar now as to-reads in the near future. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@LegiterateStudios
3 ай бұрын
A VERY PRETTY NYRB !!!!!!
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
YOU ARE SO RIGHT OMG
@heathereads
3 ай бұрын
Anything Karen Armstrong would contribute to is a thing I would read
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
I get the sense that she's great. This is the first thing I've read by her but I am looking forward to moving on to more stuff by her.
@suziwackerbarth9658
3 ай бұрын
Pink 😂 spine!!
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
ya got me lol
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
Yo why is this video blowing up
@B4CKWARDS_CH4RM
3 ай бұрын
KZitem recommendation algorithm changed recently so it’s easier to discover smaller channels making videos on things you’re interested in, it seems to be happening a lot lately
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
Well that's amazing news! Hope to meet many more people interested in books as objects and texts as friends. @@B4CKWARDS_CH4RM
@augustmcwake
3 ай бұрын
I hadn't heard of Fermor, either, before you turned me onto him. I hope to read this!
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
You’re welcome to borrow my copy any time!
@_aworldthatspoke950
3 ай бұрын
Who’s the prof? Did she like your own work?
@leafyconcern
3 ай бұрын
Never had her, never sought her out back then. She didn't have a chance to like my own work and I didn't have any "work" then anyway so she would have been merely annoyed by me, and with good reason -- just like almost every other one of my professors was.
@_aworldthatspoke950
3 ай бұрын
@@leafyconcernthere’s a stroy there. what was her name I want to see if you appear in some way in it
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