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=RZh83z…

If you've been wanting to hear me haltingly liken a novel to a deconstructed samosa, here's your chance.

Join us tomorrow at The American Library in Paris (or online) to discuss translating Mauvignier's THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, among others: americanlibraryinparis.org/event/levinbec…

"I recommend [The Birthday Party] to anyone who likes their books long, meandering, and very stressful."

Éric Chevillard ruminates on a visit to see Hegel's cap. Read on Book Post: books.substack.com/p/diary-eric-c…

Laurent Mauvignier and Daniel Levin Becker for THE BIRTHDAY PARTY 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Love the bold, risk-taking literature USRofC champions from independent presses. Congratulations to all the longlisted authors and translators!

Hello fronds! Jakuta Alikavazovic's LIKE A SKY INSIDE (3/26, translated by Daniel Levin Becker) is officially available for preorder now. Discover what Catherine Lacey calls "a perfect sculpture of pure thought." fernfernfern.com/skyinside

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 Daniel Levin Becker about the process of translation, the magic of Chevillard’s style, and more. i.mtr.cool/dwiiwdjcyt

March 28th, I will chat about Raymond Queneau and The Skin of Dreams, recently published by NYRB Classics, with the always insightful Daniel Levin Becker. 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/r…

The Final Countdown, but make it life-affirming

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…

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.

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 Jakuta Alikavazovic Daniel Levin Becker

Will be on this panel tomorrow talking Oulipo and cities and Calvino and mangroves. The usual.

Mark your calendars for the Like a Sky Inside book tour! We are thrilled to share this "singularly beautiful book" (@mervatim) next month: City Lights Books, Third Place Books, Lost City Books, Albertine Books, PEN World Voices Festival For more: fernfernfern.com/skyinside Jakuta Alikavazovic Daniel Levin Becker

Tour starts tonight at City Lights Books. Hit it.

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 Columbia Global Paris Center City Diplomacy Lab ideasimagination.columbia.edu/events/plongee…