Alex Dimitrov ~ And this is the light that arrives / despite everything. It is the most light. / It will happen more often than you expect.

One more time from the top..... Please join us next Sat., June 1st for our "hard" laun—no, make that our Black Spring launch. w @peelijay WEAR A MASK @Skye_Cleary Michael Don & more

We regret to announce that, in the process of assembling the new issue, our editor-in-chief has contracted a rare case of "pink thumb"... We are beside ourselves with anomie. Scanning the horizon for answers. No one can say what will help. But everybody has a theory.

She's out on the town............ She's making friends........................... Changing lives....... maybe. (You gotta believe.)

While a well done presentation of "today's situation", essays like this legitimize & reinforce the existing paradigm--leading to more of the same--rather than raise any real issues about it, or the corporatization & commodification of both authors & books esquire.com/entertainment/…

It's always a good day to follow Akashic, Archway, Belle Point, Belt, CLASH, Coffee House, Deep Vellum (+ Dalkey Archive), Dorothy, Feminist, Hub City, Kaya, New Directions, NYRB, Sarabande, Semiotext(e), Seven Stories, Sublunary, Transit, Two Dollar Radio, etc etc

Filly Sanders.

A recap of Cannes with Manon Kerjean of “lost in frenchlation” worldradioparis.podbean.com/e/lost-in-fren…

Saturday mood: George Harrison hosting a luncheon party at Friar Park, Champagne detail, portrait by his good friend Barry Feinstein.

you can’t have a parasocial relationship w someone you know. Or can you

This was fun! Stellar readings. Attentive audience. Beautiful issue. Thank you the Brazenhead Review editors!

📣 The application period for the 2024 FSG Writer’s Fellowship is now open! The FSG Writer’s Fellowship is a year-long program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing.

“The conditions for serendipity, like those for biodiversity, are rarely the best for the short-term bottom line.” newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

Scott Fitzgerald at Juan-les-pins, French Riviera