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Happy pub date to BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026 from @deepvellum.bsky.social. I’m very proud to have a translation in this volume, a poem by a Kyiv-based poet Olga Bragina, first published in @consequencef.bsky.social.
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Hand holding a copy of Pip Adam’s novel Audition - the cover showing circles and amorphous shapes with astronomical images.
This was exhilarating. I’ve heard good things here too about The New Animals and likely have it in my near future.
Movie poster for Perfectly a Strangeness showing a profile close up of a donkey’s eye.
This was fun.
First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.
I hadn’t realized the story in this one was connected at all to Cattle.
A pale hand holding a copy of Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth As It Is Beneath in front of a white door.
I’m enjoying this one. Grateful to @grantrintoul.bsky.social for his recent review. Also to @iancurtin.bsky.social for mentioning the connection to Of Cattle and Men, one of my favorite reads last year.
I read that Haushofer recently and it’s aces.
Happy birthday!
Yes! Same. I hope this goes without saying, but if you’re ever in the Bay Area hit me up.
I’m a little bummed not to be in Baltimore with the friends I met last year in LA. The silver lining is I love my routine. Still.
The cover of a book: Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence by Avril Horner.
Book mail. Such a wonderful critical voice at the heart of Comyns’s work and I’ve heard great things about this book: Avril Horner’s biography of her.
Still need to get a copy, but I’m really excited about this one.
"In lieu of flowers, the family and Zipporah Films kindly request that you support your local PBS affiliate or independent bookstore in Frederick Wiseman’s memory."
If I were still in Austin! Sounds fun.
Elena Knows is aces. It’s the other one of hers I’ve read.
It’s terrific. I should have mentioned that your writing about it convinced me to try it. Looking forward to some others by her that Charco has put out.
Incidentally, people who have to use laundromats are spending a lot of money for clean clothes. $6 per wash plus ~$4 per dry at this place in N. Cal.
Cover of “A Crack in the Wall” by Claudia Piñeiro. Rows of washing machines in the background.
Text from p. 187 of “A Crack in the Wall.”
Enjoying this book that has me in the head of a guy who has helped his coworkers commit a murder. Tr. by Miranda France.
Great list! I loved Great Fear on the Mountain.
A hand holding a copy of Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart in front of a leaf-covered sidewalk.
My getting revaccinated might have to wait in line at Walgreens reading. As things turned out the line was too short to read much.
“It’s true that the world was failing at its one task - of remaining a world. Pieces were breaking off. Seasons had become postmodern.”
Thinking about this interesting if maybe not helpful way of describing climate change. From Shelia Heti’s Pure Colour.
People weaving in and out of traffic lanes, cutting people off at warp speed, etc. should know the rest of us can tell they’re having a panic attack.
“It is more difficult to labour with educated men, with cultivated minds and moreover predisposed to skepticism, than with the uneducated.”
Letter from a 19th c. evangelical quoted in Hofstadter’s Anti-intellectualism in American Life
It was a wee thing. My mom’s husband killed it with a hoe, I’m told.
A baby rattle snake on a cement porch with the corner of a door visible above and a shadow of the photographer visible below.
My mom found a baby rattle snake on her porch last night at her house in Georgetown, TX. Always good to corner venomous creatures for a photo sesh.
The US cover of Joy Williams’s The Pelican Child.
Joy Williams’s signature with a long slashing “J” and “y.”
I picked this up a while back from @ebbooksellers.bsky.social and was surprised to find my preorder had come in as a signed copy. It’s an excellent collection. Also, I like the way the “J” and “y” cut in Joy Williams’s signature.
Super restless voice. It’s stuck with me now for weeks.
One of my favorite recent reads.
I raved about it here not long ago and some of our mutuals might have put it in your timeline? In any case, one of my favorite recent reads, maybe an all-time favorite.
