Fredric Jameson taught me that the texts and ideas I fear are likely just folded over a few times and will yield to patient investigation; and that the pleasures of analysis reach far beyond the professional categories of "criticism" or "academia" RIP a true king

I think about this moment from Bob Dylan's 60 Minutes interview a lot

We are thrilled to announce that the #19thAmendment, which removed restrictions for women to vote, will go on permanent display at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. archives.gov/press/press-re…

Ahead of the BrooklynBookFestival, culminating on Saturday in its annual literary marketplace in Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, we re-up our post on the OG Miami Book Fair and its early descendants in LA and Manhattan, now with offspring across the land books.substack.com/p/notebook-fai…

Variety calling Jesus a "Christian leader" is taking me out. fund the humanities.

Up next in Book Post: michael röbbins on Ovid’s Metamorphoses books.substack.com/p/review-micha…

I wrote about translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses for Book Post, should you be interested books.substack.com/p/review-micha…

rats secure yet another victory in New York’s “war on rats”

It was so illuminating and fun to be a part of this great panel with Jane Friedman for her The Hot Sheet, thinking with people from across the spectrum in publishing about how the circumstances we face affect what gets written and seen. Thanks to all! (✍🏼) mailchi.mp/hotsheetpub/su…

We partnered with Malaprop’s Bookstore in #Asheville, NC, a while back & wrote about the role the bookstore had in making the thriving, inclusive, creative community it became. Thinking of them this weekend #ashevilleflooding malaprops.com books.substack.com/p/announcing-o…

Remembering when

Further thoughts on publishing nonfiction today, some excellent reflections from the always-excellent Anne Trubek! (Plus some kind words about Book Post, humble thanks!) notesfromasmallpress.substack.com/p/wither-nonfi…

"Manchette famously called crime writing 'the great moral literature of our time.' In The Mad and the Bad  he violently tears open the rot by turbocharging Hammett’s lean tautness with a playfulness that’s audacious and harrowing. Barry Yourgrau on JPM at Book Post

What we need is a Book-It program for grown-ups. Read five books written by adults for adults, and redeem your card for a pizza and a beer at Pizza Hut. x.com/SonnyBunch/sta…

You rein things in, like a horse, not reign things in, like King Charles You home in on an answer, as a plane approaches a homing beacon, not hone in on it, like a jeweler cutting a diamond You await something with bated breath, not baited breath, unless you are mouth-fishing

A pleasure to write about thrilling crime-thriller iconoclast, France's J-P Manchette, for marvelous Book Post books.substack.com/p/review-barry…

Book Post’s Sarah Chayes

Finally finished this neat book. My favorite chapters were Lightness and Exactitude.