George Gissing's THE ODD WOMEN (1893) is about sisters and a sisterhood that dares to be odd 🥄 This S&T edition features a conversation between friends, critics, and Gissing lovers Adam Dalva and Merve Emre out this November 26! Find out more at unnamedpress.com

There are essays you read that you don't forget, and this one by Adam Dalva, published in Literary Hub exactly one year ago, has stayed with me. lithub.com/on-grief-pizza…

La Chimera, wow! Hope everyone manages to watch this movie. Loved all the nods to Fellini throughout, and a bit of Tarkovsky too at the end - not quite a perfect movie but Alice Rohrwacher is one of the most exciting directors in the world.

Thrilling news for WordsWithoutBorders!

I would like it very much if every other remaining mystery that preoccupied me in my twenties - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Snoop Dogg changing his name to Snoop Lion, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, Banksy - was also somehow caused by RFK Jr

I have an essay on moral worldbuilding and the necessity (and utility) of evil in fiction in the new issue of The Sewanee Review (The Sewanee Review). It attempts to trace how we ended up with moral gray sludge in fiction. thesewaneereview.com/articles/false…

Strongest possible recommendation for the long version of Bergman’s Fanny & Alexander, which is one of the great films I’ve seen, beautiful and weird and novelistic and surprisingly frightening. I planned to only watch the first part, and now it’s 1 AM - the five hours blazed by.

Worth adding that this book is excellent, one of my favorites of the year - what seems at first like an interview turns into something much stranger and better (and as someone who also interviewed Dubravka, it was a particular treat for me)

He must have seen that I am once again teaching both "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" and "Brokeback Mountain" on the second day of class

I'm talking with Garth Greenwell about his beautiful new novel, SMALL RAIN, a week from today at the Harvard Book Store at 7PM. Join us, Boston - it will be wonderful.

Today is the day! Our annual reading period begins now. Send us your best poems, stories, essays, and translations by September 30. Submit here: theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

Editing Giulia’s translation was a blast - I’ve been talking about this story ever since, and am so glad it is out in the world. Cho Yeeun was one of my favorite discoveries in my time at Guernica: a writer to watch.

Friends in Boston—come join Adam Dalva and me at Harvard Book Store tomorrow night, Sept 4 at 7pm for a discussion of Small Rain. Full info: harvard.com/event/garth_gr…

An overwhelmingly good bookmail day

I'm thrilled to share that I've joined the The Yale Review as a Contributing Fiction Editor. The YR publishes brilliant work, and it's an honor to be part of Meghan O'Rourke's team. Our submission window is open this month, so please send your stories ASAP - I'm looking forward to reading.

We’re so glad that Adam Dalva has joined TYR to edit fiction! 🎉 Send us your stories via Submittable before September 30: theyalereview.submittable.com/submit

I’m deeply excited to have brought the marvelous Adam Dalva to The Yale Review — we are looking forward to your fiction! Submissions open now. 🎉🎉🎉

In praise of Garth Greenwell + all that his novels teach us to see newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Not having a “fun” night

Writers! Just a little over two weeks left to submit your work during our open reading period. Poems, stories, essays, and translations. Submit here: theyalereview.submittable.com/submit