Bryan Alistair Charles

@bryanacharles.bsky.social

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Writer in midst of disorienting midlife free fall / Author of a novel, a memoir, and a book about Pavement written for 33 1/3 / Broken Hearts Are Blue guitarist / Amateur Proust scholar bryanalistaircharles.com

Setsuko Hara in Yasujirō Ozu's LATE SPRING.
A portrait of Céleste Albaret, Marcel Proust's housekeeper.
PROUST by Benjamin Taylor
The novel CLARA LIT PROUST by Stéphane Carlier.
A still from ALICE IN THE CITIES, 1974, directed by Wim Wenders. Starring Yella Rottländer as Alice.
A Sunbeam Wireless mobile phone.
A copy of THE ANIMAL ROOM by Lauren Acampora.
The author standing at Marilyn Monroe's crypt in Westwood Village Memorial Park.
A picture of Marilyn Monroe reading ULYSSES. The photo was taken by Eve Arnold in 1955.
A hardcover copy of JEAN SANTEUIL by Marcel Proust.
INGMAR BERGMAN'S CINEMA, a box set by Criterion Collection.
The cover of CE QUI VIT LA NUIT, French translation of THE ORANGE EATS CREEPS by Grace Krilanovich.
A copy of PLEASURES AND DAYS featuring an Edward Gorey cover.
A page from Michael Azerrad's Come As You Are, a biography of Nirvana.
The schoolhouse used in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
Standing outside of the house featured in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).
MON VRAI NOM EST ELISABETH by Adèle Yon.
Three Criterion Collection DVDs. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, RISKY BUSINESS, and THE BREAKFAST CLUB.
Modern Library paperback edition of Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.
French version of one of the greatest and most famous last lines in American fiction.
A bookshelf featuring New York Review Books and Penguin Classics titles.
Three books. Proust, LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER and CITIES OF THE PLAIN. And A READER'S HANDBOOK TO PROUST by P.A. Spalding.
A still from Chantal Akerman's 2000 film LA CAPTIVE.
A dog named Sir Anthony licking his chops after inhaling a pup cup.
A Hermes 3000 typewriter.
Three books: Monsieur Teste, the third volume of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave, and Proust and the Sense of Time.
The Family Ties board game atop an issue of the New York Review of Books.
My right forearm featuring new tattoo of the final three words, in French, of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.
THE GUERMANTES WAY. By Marcel Proust. Translated by Peter Bush and published by Oxford World's Classics.
A shelf of Proust's works at City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco.
A copy of THE LEMOINE AFFAIR by Marcel Proust. Translated by Charlotte Mandell and published by Melville House.
Homemade madeleines.
A Sunbeam Wireless flip phone.
It is a copy of PROUST by Samuel Beckett, published by Evergreen/Grove Press.
A page from TIME REGAINED that references a poem by Charles Baudelaire.
The photo shows James Dean with his cousin Markie Winslow in Park Cemetery, Fairmount IN, on February 1955. The photo was taken by Dennis Stock.
William Greaves, director of SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, in a still from the film.
A 1957 Hermes 2000 typewriter.
A copy of PARIS DU TEMPS PERDU. The book features the photographs of Eugène Atget alongside text by Marcel Proust.
A copy of Marcel Proust : A Centennial Volume, edited by Peter Quennell. Published in 1971.
A copy of Wallace Fowlie's A READING OF PROUST.
A sample of pencil writing on yellow pad. Question, line with arrows, and first response written with Blackwing 602. Second response written with yellow Dixon Ticonderoga no. 2. Third response written with black Ticonderoga no. 2.
Broken Hearts Are Blue live at Bell's, Kalamazoo MI, 9 August 2025.
Dictionnaire Marcel Proust.
Marcel Proust biography by Jean-Yves Tadié
A copy of 2001 mass-market reissue of THE TALISMAN.
Cover of THE CRACK-UP, a zine by Bryan Alistair Charles
Sadie Stein summer book recommendation from NY Times.
Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni in LA NOTTE.
Page from a zine called THE CRACK-UP
A named Loki who has made a little bed in some shrubbery.
A copy of PROUST, A JEWISH WAY by Antoine Compagnon
A copy of DÉSERTER by Mathias Énard. Charlotte Mandell did the English translation--whose title is THE DESERTERS--for New Directions.
The one-volume Quarto edition of À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU in slipcase.
A copy of the WOWEE ZOWEE 33 1/3 book translated into Chinese.
A copy of WOWEE ZOWEE 33 1/3 book for sale at Film Forum concession stand NYC. Along with Pavement's QUARANTINE THE PAST greatest hits LP.
Hermes Ambassador typewriter.