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I'm available for feedback on manuscripts, stories, and pitches. My experiences as an editor at New Directions, Melville House, and the Rumpus means I've seen it all. Let me help you. Fees negotiable and on a sliding scale.
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For @thebafflermag, I reviewed William T. Vollmann's four-volume, 3000 page novel A Table for Fortune: thebaffler.com/latest/you-wh…
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Come and work with us! We’re looking for an Associate Publisher / Publishing Manager to join the team in Sheffield (hybrid). Deadline for applications is 20 April.
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Back in the States, but paid a visit to Italo Calvino's grave before I departed from Italy.
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RIP to a master, Alexander Kluge. A filmmaker and writer of singular mind and style. THE DEVIL'S BLINDSPOT, AIR RAID, and THE SNOWS OF VENICE, his collaboration with Ben Lerner, are gems. You can watch the event for their New York launch here: youtube.com/watch?v=j4Bjo8dA…
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Three more days to read this online at @GrantaMag before it slinks back into its paywall cave—
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day to the forthcoming "Great Dublin Novel" DOONEEN by the singular Keith Rigdway
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.@FitzcarraldoEds has signed 'the Great Dublin Novel' - Dooneen by Keith Ridgway is 'an extraordinary book, funny and odd and moving and angry, quite unlike anything else in contemporary fiction'
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For anyone interested, this site keeps a database (just over 900 entries atm) of Persian / Iranian literature in English translation. Mostly short stories and poetry but some novels and non-fiction too. persiantranslated.com/public…
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Very sorry to hear of António Lobo Antunes’s passing. A genuine literary giant who refused to be silent about Portugal’s fascist and colonial history, and a novelist who pushed the boundaries of the form. Que descanse em paz.
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Gutted to hear that Michael passed away. He taught so many of us how to read and how to listen
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"To read her work is to witness the entire American poetic tradition distilled and reconfigured in the hands of a devotee, moved by a never-quite-explicable love." @cementeriocc on Susan Howe
For @PoetryFound, I wrote about my beloved Susan Howe and how her writing and her voice have shaped my own private and public image of America and my invented English voice. Link below!
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Michael Barron retweeted
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Some @newyorker news! Becca Rothfeld (@heidegrrrrl) and Jordan Salama (@JordanSalama19) coming aboard. Welcome!
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If you'd like to support laid off journalists at the Post, some of my colleagues are started a go fund me gofundme.com/f/standing-toge…
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WaPo had one of the most considerate and considerable book reviews in the country. Grateful to have written for it and wish Becca Rothfeld, Jacob Brogan and the rest of its staff the best.
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Before I cancel my subscription to the Post, which I took out to read Becca Rothfeld's column, I was lucky to write once for John Williams on one of our heroes, Lewis Lapham. washingtonpost.com/books/202…
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"Among the more insidious forms of American arrogance toward China is the idea that where we have politics, China has only government." @nplusonemag nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the…
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Michael Barron retweeted
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“What remains? the book’s title asks. After emigration, history, death, exile, and transformation, what remains is life." A luminous, beautifully written review of What Remains by @_michaelbarron for @LAReviewofBooks lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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For @LAReviewofBooks, I reviewed the Galician writer @BraisLamela's What Remains, a journalistic novel that considers emigration, Franco-era history, and the slipperiness between fiction and nonfiction: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"Pity autofiction, a genre that has troubled the novel since its inception."
@_michaelbarron on "What Remains" by Brais Lamela, and quandary of journalized fictions: lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
ALT The cover of What Remains against a background
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