Is it still forming part of the #AContinuation project? I didn’t see anything about it on your site.

Little Lazarus by Michael Bible Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill Lili is Crying by Hélène Bessette (tr. Kate Briggs) Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer) Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (tr. Ros Schwartz) Vaim by Jon Fosse (tr. Damion Searls) Little World by Josephine Rowe Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlers Gertrude Stein by Francesca Wade Art Work by Sally Mann

Here are the books I finished in February. I recommitted to reading 1hr each morning before starting work & it was just the reset I needed. Bessette & Sarton were both rereads. 4 are from the @usrofc.bsky.social longlist. I loved the entire stack! #AContinuation #SundaySarton #NYRBWomen26

Novel Forms: A Conversation with Kate Briggs | Brick I spent the fall of 2022 at literary festivals, on tour with my second book of poetry, asking poets and novelists about translation, a subject I’d recently become interested in as a writer.

Novel Forms: A Conversation between Kate Briggs
& Madhur Anand.

“How is a book like love?” was one of the questions we asked ourselves... #AContinuation
brickmag.com/novel-forms-...

A copy of Swann’s Way, volume 1 of In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin

Eep… it’s time! #nowreading #booksky #AContinuation

"Gnossienne: Word invented by Satie, sitting halfway between gnostic and madeleine." (p84) -- Ian Penman, ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE #AContinuation

Photos of the judges for the 2026 Goldsmiths Prize: Kate Briggs, Hari Kunzru, David Sexton & Francis Spufford

#AContinuation I just saw that Kate Briggs is one of the judges for the 2026 Goldsmiths Prize! 🎉 www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

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One for the #AContinuation crowd - Kate Briggs and Holly Pester discussing Lili is Crying by Hélène Bessette @joiedevivre9.bsky.social @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social libreria.transistor.fm

#AContinuation

Lili is Crying
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I finished this morning and have so many confused thoughts to untangle.

"I think Bessette wants her readers to feel confused."
- Kate Briggs

#AContinuation

Lili is Crying - Hélène Bessette

- You were wrong, says Lili, I left him there. With only his
eyes, which are the colour of fear.
This season's colour! It suits everyone.
A new shade. It just gets better and better.
(102)

#AContinuation

Lili is Crying - Hélène Bessette

So Lili is wrong to torture her heart over the verb 'to choose'.
Life takes care of the choosing. It's life that decides.
(99)
...

The choice takes care of itself.
The choice doesn't need us.
(101)

I'm having these exact same thoughts about what it is! I think I've landed on a hybrid novel/play, but I'm finding it really intriguing, whatever it is. #AContinuation

Pile of books sitting on a bookshelf next to a lit candle. From top to bottom: Robinson by Muriel Spark, Lili is Crying by Hélène Bessette, The Long Form by Kate Briggs, Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi, Oromay by Baalu Girma, and Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust.

…and some recent acquistions #AContinuation #LondonReadstheWorld #22monthswithMuriel

I'm reading:
Diana Athill - Instead of a Letter #NYRBWomen26
May Sarton's Plant Dreaming Deep #SundaySarton
Toilus and Cressida #Troilus_2026
Lili is Crying #AContinuation
M: Son of the Century - Antonio Scurati
Osip Mandelstam - Selected Poems
Emperor: The Death of Kings as my "junk food" reading

#AContinuation

And the shepherd? A witness, certainly.
A negative-chorus, maybe? The reader?

"Your face is like a wall. The crumbling wall of this old, ruined tower. It'll keep my confidences safe." (47)

"Talk to me, said the shepherd, you could even ask the question and give the answers." (48)

#AContinuation Lili is Crying - Hélène Bessette

What is this!?

Is it a play? A novel? A poem? A score? An anti-psalm?

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"I will prepare a whole evening of red and purple-coloured bliss." (36)

"Smiles, hands, laughter." (37)

[Fitzcarraldo]

1.

She is seated in the wicker armchair, its base softened with cushions. With Lili at her feet. - My daughter, my Lili. The two of them huddled together. Thunder, lightning flashes, rumblings, crashings, clappings, distancings, the mistral let loose, the mistral stunned, choked, thwarted, lurking in the corner of banked clouds. The sky disfigured. Water tromping. The fig tree in the garden bent double. - Thank heavens, my Lili, that you and me, you the daughter and me the mother, we love each other in life and can shelter here together in this good and gentle Provençale house. The calm hour strikes inside the house as, outside, the storm grumbles on. Why, Lili, you're crying! Why are you crying? Lili is crying. And outside the storm has moved off, the wind abated, the rain sated, the fig tree righted. But still, Lili is crying. Hélène Bessette, Lili is Crying (transl. Kate Briggs

An electrifying start to Bessette's Lili is Crying #AContinuation

Would this be a crazy late time to join in with #AContinuation? If I were to be so crazy, what would I most need to catch up on to understand what's going on?

LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette (tr. Kate Briggs)

Page guide for LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette (tr. Kate Briggs)

PLANT DREAMING DEEP by May Sarton

Page guide for PLANT DREAMING DEEP by May Sarton

Starting tomorrow, Feb 1st!

Part 7 of #AContinuation - LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette (tr. Kate Briggs)

Book 2 of #SundaySarton - PLANT DREAMING DEEP by May Sarton

Here are the page guides.
More info at www.joiedevivre9.com

Starting in 5 days!! #AContinuation

Come read LILI IS CRYING with us! #AContinuation (new hashtag). The plan is for more Proust after that.

#AContinuation A collaboration between Kim (@joiedevivre9), Rebecca (@ofbooksandbikes)  ​& everyone else who wants to participate.

More info on #AContinuation here: www.joiedevivre9.com/katebriggs24...

LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette, translated by Kate Briggs, published by New Directions.

LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette, translated by Kate Briggs, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Exciting news: We’ll be starting the next phase of #AContinuation on February 1 & all are welcome to join! Page guide to come soon! @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social

I've now read the first few pages of 3 different translations of Swann's Way. There's a reason Moncrieff has ruled all these years. I wanted to know if the dreamy, poetic voice so evident in Moncrieff was in Proust or the translation.
It was not in the other two.
My question remains.
#AContinuation

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"...to get myself vividly interested in what is contemporaneous to me, I might need the detour through death..." (9)

A split screen - the top half showing the last chapter heading of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding, the bottom half showing the green cloth spine of the Everyman Classics edition.

After two months on and off, I have finally finished Tom Jones. Over 30 yrs - eek - since I read it as an undergrad. Partridge was funnier and Mr. Western more infuriating than I had remembered. But good to dip into the classics. #AContinuation