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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Imagination et créativité pour appréhender les villes d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Rejoignez-nous demain pour célébrer la réécriture du chef-d'œuvre de Calvino par le collectif d'écrivains auquel il appartenait.
@III_SNFPHI @CGCParisCenter @CityDiploLab
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2 May 2024
Tour starts tonight at @CityLightsBooks. Hit it.
2 May 2024
"[Jakuta Alikavazovic] is one of the great writers of our time." @GarthGreenwell, author of CLEANNESS
Get the book:
fernfernfern.com/skyinside
Check out the tour (merci, @villa_albertine!):
villa-albertine.org/professi…
Author photo: © Francesca Mantovani
@JakutaAlika @dlb
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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
15 Apr 2024
Mark your calendars for the Like a Sky Inside book tour! We are thrilled to share this "singularly beautiful book" (@mervatim) next month:
@CityLightsBooks, @ThirdPlaceBooks, @lostcitybooks, @albertinebooks, @PENworldvoices
For more: fernfernfern.com/skyinside
@JakutaAlika @dlb
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1 Apr 2024
Will be on this panel tomorrow talking Oulipo and cities and Calvino and mangroves. The usual.
29 Mar 2024
TUESDAY @ 10 AM:
Join a special panel discussion featuring IPCC authors, climate policy experts, and writers pushing the boundaries of science & policy as they explore the role of narratives in advancing climate action.
RSVP: bit.ly/49mh1uN
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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
27 Mar 2024
Calling all Fronds of Fern Books! Now that LIKE A SKY INSIDE has debuted on the literary scene, we want to see it out in the wild. Send us your photos, no hand modeling experience required!
For more: fernfernfern.com/skyinside
@JakutaAlika @dlb
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26 Mar 2024
Happy publication day to this elegant, insightful, endlessly beguiling memoir-essay-caper, an honor to translate and an expansive joy to revisit again and again. Can't wait for you to read it.
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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
21 Mar 2024
9/ In an excerpt from her new book "Like a Sky Inside," Jakuta Alikavazovic tells the story of a young woman's night alone at the Louvre, and dares to ask: “And you, how would you go about stealing the Mona Lisa?” thedial.world/issue-14/ficti…
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20 Mar 2024
The Final Countdown, but make it life-affirming
19 Mar 2024
How will you spend the final week before LIKE A SKY INSIDE by Jakuta Alikavazovic comes out?
"LIKE A SKY INSIDE is... written with unsurpassed brio, intelligence, and empathy." -Katie Kitamura, author of INTIMACIES
fernfernfern.com/skyinside
@JakutaAlika @dlb @katiekitamura
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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
15 Mar 2024
March 28th, I will chat about Raymond Queneau and The Skin of Dreams, recently published by @nyrbclassics, with the always insightful @dlb. There will also be a few in-person events for this translation, but this will be the one online event. Join us!
nyrb.com/blogs/events/raymon…
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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
4 Mar 2024
Museum Visits presents the daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard. In this Q&A, we with talk with translator Daniel Levin Becker @dlb about the process of translation, the magic of Chevillard’s style, and more.
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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
21 Feb 2024
Hello fronds! @JakutaAlika's LIKE A SKY INSIDE (3/26, translated by @dlb) is officially available for preorder now.
Discover what @_catherinelacey calls "a perfect sculpture of pure thought."
fernfernfern.com/skyinside
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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
30 Jan 2024
Laurent Mauvignier and @dlb for THE BIRTHDAY PARTY 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Love the bold, risk-taking literature @USRofC champions from independent presses. Congratulations to all the longlisted authors and translators!
30 Jan 2024
Thrilled to unveil our longlist for
the Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada! I’d encourage everyone to explore these wonderful books and publishers! @USRofC @LoriFeathers @interabangbooks, @JamesJCrossley, @zoegrams @warwicksbooks
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Daniel Levin Becker retweeted
24 Jan 2024
Éric Chevillard ruminates on a visit to see Hegel's cap. Read on Book Post:
books.substack.com/p/diary-e…
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9 Jan 2024
Out today in the U.S. from @yalepress: MUSEUM VISITS, a litany of succinct observational bafflements from the inimitable Éric Chevillard.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780…
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13 Dec 2023
"I recommend [The Birthday Party] to anyone who likes their books long, meandering, and very stressful."
12 Dec 2023
Today on WWB: our staff members' favorite translated books of 2023, plus the forthcoming ones we’re most hyped about in 2024. A little thread of these staff favorites below:
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wordswithoutborders.org/read…
ALT The covers of "Vengeance Is Mine," "Under Our Skin," "Negras," "Rotten Evidence," "MA," "Owlish," "The Love of Singular Men," "Stolen," "Our Share of Night," "Novelist as a Vocation," The Blue Light," and "The Birthday Party"
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7 Nov 2023
Join us tomorrow at @amerlibparis (or online) to discuss translating Mauvignier's THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, among others:
americanlibraryinparis.org/e…
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27 Sep 2023
If you've been wanting to hear me haltingly liken a novel to a deconstructed samosa, here's your chance.
26 Sep 2023
New Three Percent podcast just dropped! @chrisgclarke1 and @dlb joined @chadwpost to talk about two Raymond Queneau books out TODAY from @Dalkey_Archive: Pierrot Mon Ami (Essentials edition) and Sally Mara's Intimate Journal. rochester.edu/College/transl…
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27 Aug 2023
In college I had a playlist on my computer called "Triumph" that was just this song. (Don't ask, I wouldn't have been able to explain it even then.) RIP Brian McBride.
youtube.com/watch?v=RZh83z08…
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