I tried to write something a little different about Molly Brodak — about my memories of her, about Blake’s book, against tabloids but still wanting to know. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

“I feel … fading. I’m just a sad baby lying in my bed staring at the wall. But it’s better than dying on the bathroom floor. My dog would have lost his ever-loving mind.”

Diaries from Lisa Carver. buff.ly/3TgBAob

Thank you @tricialockwood and @LRBBookshop for popping *Fair Play* by #ToveJansson into your bag of 5 📚️ to help readers navigate the next 20 years. We ❤️‍🔥 all 20 LRB bags, all of them utterly wise. Independent Alliance @moominofficial @riotcomms @Tovejansson1914 @Profile.Books

after 95 years, these two are still going

me and my lady’s companion

congrats I met the pope lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

Issue 45.23 is now online, featuring:

Patricia Lockwood and the pope
a report from South Lebanon by Zain Samir
Clare Bucknell on Byron
David Trotter on Werner Herzog
and a cover by Alexander Gorlizki.

Read online now at lrb.co.uk

In which Patricia Lockwood meets the pope.

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

Watch Patricia Lockwood & I discuss my book A HEART THAT WORKS + her brilliant books, Lucia Berlin, Ronald McDonald, grief & sex. Video: youtube.com/live/tr723ZTDJ…❤️📚Book Passage

The discourse continues:

@tricialockwood joins LRB editor Joanne O’Leary to discuss DFW’s troubled status as ‘Saint Dave’, when his writing was at its best and whether a novel can benefit from being left unfinished.

🎧 Listen here or on all podcast apps
lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

Fantastic profile of KimHyesoon 김혜순시인 (inc. her translation process with Don Mee Choi 🩵) by Tammy Kim in The New Yorker !!!

“Feminism isn’t something you’re born believing. Feminism is going through life and changing yourself.”

newyorker.com/culture/person…

she would be 5 years old today … thank you for reading her book

oh god he’s harnessed himself to the pool rope again. sisyphus ass

'Leonard and Marianne swim and swim
as if the water itself
is the island of hydra
eviscerating itself
in clear alcohol'

I wrote these Death Styles abt the ambivalence of survival-- here's Clytemnestra & Leonard Cohen --aging & drinking--glamour & grief-

poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

just over here fondling my garnets

I feel moved by these pictures. nice

This seems like something that would happen at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Patricia Lockwood I don’t have a pic of it but while I was visiting family in China my mom asked a stranger to give us directions. The stranger immediately grabbed my copy of IJ and drew a giant train map all over the last page in pen. And then later my mom spilled tea all over my book.

i've had acid reflux all week from you yahoos tweeting about cs lewis