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OUT NOW: ISSUE 361! David Ulin on “Speaking in Tongues” by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos, Beatrice Loayza on Durga Chew-Bose’s “Bonjour Tristesse” film adaptation, Sasha Frere-Jones on Jon King’s “To Hell With Poverty!” & Albert Mobilio on “After Words” 4columns.org

“The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that was lost when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.” 4columns.org/ulin-david-l/s…

OUT NOW! ISSUE 361: Beatrice Loayza on gestural subtleties in Durga Chew-Bose’s film adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s “Bonjour Tristesse,” David Ulin on subjectivity and syntax in J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos’s “Speaking in Tongues” Liveright Books; & more. 4columns.org

“The book addresses matters of mother tongue and gender before turning to the act of translation itself. What connects these elements is the mutability of language, its porousness.”—David Ulin on “Speaking in Tongues” by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos 4columns.org/ulin-david-l/s…

i am writing from my sound mind when what interests me is my unsound mind

We the people are the true national endowment for the arts, and all that we do at @deepvellum is for readers like you and me

“The book examines language’s limitations as much as possibilities—even as, in this thought-provoking set of interrogations, such a distinction is often rendered moot.”—David Ulin on J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos’s “Speaking in Tongues” Liveright Books 4columns.org/ulin-david-l/s…

“All the things we were going to do. Your father’s big break-out role, my one-woman show, move to LA and get rich and famous.… Those things sparkle at us from a distant mountaintop.” altaonline.com/california-boo…

“You feel her trying to make the world. So, even with the kidnapping, it’s like if she just tells that story the same way, over and over and over, and yells about the people who doubt her, then it will bend to her will.” altaonline.com/books/nonficti…

"Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art . . . The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made." - Donald Barthelme, "Not Knowing"

I could write a (probably not very good) book about Paul Celan's letters. Instead, I am grateful to have an essay in air/light magazine that is dedicated to the memory of Pierre Joris, whose love for Paul Celan is an eternity in language. 🖤 airlightmagazine.org/airlight/sprin…

"The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know.” ~ James Baldwin

Reader’s notes on the letters between Paul Celan and his wife, Gisele. From new issue of air/light magazine

"While it’s possible to be careless with language and be a successful writer, it’s not possible to be a great one, for the simple reason that words matter." ~ Richard Russo

“I wanted to grow up and just be a reader, just someone who read. Even then I knew that wasn’t a job.” —Lydia Davis buff.ly/Boznw91

The four Figueroa Street Tunnels running through Elysian Park opened in 1931 and made it easier to get to DTLA from out Pasadena way. Later in the 1940s, they would become part of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, which opened in 1940 and was one of the first freeways in the U.S.

always softer in the daylight, always harsher under sway of night

“You need to write about the life you’ve lived. It can’t all be aspirational. It’s part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You’ve only got one life to draw on.” —Edward Hirsch buff.ly/71QQ0Mb

“The arc is long, like they say, but also squiggly, and you just never know where it’s going and there are no guarantees.” altaonline.com/books/fiction/…

A great conversation about the two lives of #Aqua with David Ulin for air/light magazine Between Two Worlds: A Conversation with Chiara Barzini airlightmagazine.org/airlight/sprin… via USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences