Brandon Taylor

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  • Pentel Energel LRN5 Recommends

    The Pentel Energel LRN5 or LR7. You can also use the refills from Papermate Ink Joy and the Tül refills.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2024-04-04

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  • Tül pens Loved

    My favorite pens at the time were the Papermate InkJoy and the Tül pens I had stolen from lab before departing for my MFA in Iowa City.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2024-04-04

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  • Papermate InkJoy Loved

    My favorite pens at the time were the Papermate InkJoy and the Tül pens I had stolen from lab before departing for my MFA in Iowa City.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2024-04-04

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  • Muji pens Loved

    It was around this time, in the summer of 2021, that I discovered the Muji pens. I discovered them as every minimalism fetishist discovers them perhaps.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2024-04-04

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  • The Late Americans Recommends

    Also, please preorder The Late Americans so I can write more homosexual novels—it comes out next year!

    blgtylr.substack.com 2022-12-08

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  • the Strand Recommends

    For used books, the Strand is pretty amazing. If you want an interesting, vibey new book, you don't go to the Strand, you go to McNally Jackson.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2022-12-08

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  • The Drama Bookshop Loved

    Recently though, I went to The Drama Bookshop, which was a delightful surprise. It is the closest I have come to the experience of a Manhattan bookshop as a third place in the kind of Prairie Lights mode.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2022-12-08

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  • eBay Loved

    I wanted the the superior UK edition of two Kawabata books, so I ordered them from eBay. They arrived in like five days. It was amazing.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2022-12-08

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  • Fellowship Point Loved

    There have been many novels written in historical modes this year, and I've hated all of them except Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark precisely because that novel feels vibrant and lively and full of characters and it reminds me of early 20th century literature.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2022-12-08

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  • The Court and the Castle Loved

    It was in such a place that I found the book The Court and the Castle by Rebecca West. It's a strange little book but a brilliant one, provocative and cunning.

    blgtylr.substack.com 2022-12-08

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  • unfortunately novak djokovic fixed my serve 25 Aug 2025
  • two requests 21 Aug 2025
  • i make my students spoil their novels 22 Jul 2025
  • summer writing 18 Jul 2025
  • Muji pens 4 Apr 2024 Loved
  • Papermate InkJoy 4 Apr 2024 Loved
  • Tül pens 4 Apr 2024 Loved
  • Pentel Energel LRN5 4 Apr 2024 Recommends
  • The Court and the Castle 8 Dec 2022 Loved
  • Fellowship Point 8 Dec 2022 Loved
  • eBay 8 Dec 2022 Loved
  • The Drama Bookshop 8 Dec 2022 Loved
  • the Strand 8 Dec 2022 Recommends
  • The Late Americans 8 Dec 2022 Recommendstheir own