“All writers feel struck by the limitations of language. All serious writers.” —Margaret Atwood buff.ly/3q4rkOJ

🥂🥂We are delighted that Ian Penman has (astonishingly, hot on the heels of the Ondaatje Prize) won a James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography for FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS! 🥂🥂 x.com/EdinburghUni/s…

It still doesn't seem real, but somehow, some way, UC Berkeley and Harvard are going to support my weird little magazine. Which means that after twenty solid years of dreaming about it, I'm making a print mag of writing and art. lithub.com/expand-your-mi…

Translators from Italian, editors, and publishers: this book is a literary gem that should be translated in English! You can read more about it in English here: readingintranslation.com/2024/04/05/in-…

when did we become friends?
it happened so gradual i didn’t notice

—Wanda Coleman

poets.org/poem/dear-mama…

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“This particular evening, however, I stood up from my chair and walked around the table to my husband, and I said, in his ear, We have to go now. To his credit, he did not protest.”

Cynthia Zarin for our series, Dinner Parties. buff.ly/3JZN3CU

'BLOOD RED is a hypnotic novel, itself seemingly hypnotized by bodily fluids.'
Areeb Ahmad | اریب احمد reviews Gabriela Ponce's debut novel, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker (@RestlessBooks): full-stop.net/2024/05/13/rev….

The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
Said, 'Little creature, form'd of Joy and Mirth,
'Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.'

—William Blake

poets.org/poem/angel-pre…

“I don’t think poems have to have easy translation. I believe strongly in emotional and psychological narratives.” —Carl Phillips buff.ly/2TjSsrz

If you read Italian, Enrica Ferrara's debut novel is remarkable! Her literary voice is gripping and takes you on an unforgettable journey of 1980s Naples, its politics and sites.

ust read Kate Briggs’ The Long Form (Fitzcarraldo Editions ) - marvellous. Truly original. A novel like no other. All literature should have such qualities.

My mother wants to know where I am,
who I am with, and when will I land.

I get frustrated by her insistence on my safety
and survival. What a shame I am. I’m sorry, mom.

—Tiana Clark

poets.org/poem/louder-th…

Fascinating. Don’t recall ever before reading such an insightful article on why exactly fiction in translation from a particular country or countries is appealing to English speakers

.Jenessa Abrams reads Miranda July's latest novel: ''All Fours' can read as the exploration and subsequent explosion of this inquiry: 'Who gets to be a child? Whose life gets to be filled with desire—with reinvention—with wonder?'' lareviewofbooks.org/article/standi…

The wait is almost over…PURITY by Andrzej Tichý, translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley, publishes on 4th June 2024.

From the author of WRETCHEDNESS, these short stories plunge us into the urban margins, giving furious voice to figures often absent from fiction.

Pleased to have blurbed this new edited volume on the 20th century Australian writer Eleanor Dark Time, Tide and History – Sydney University Press sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/187368

I was interviewed in The Cut! 🖤

& got to talk with the excellent Cat Zhang about going to sleep at dawn, power-lifting, terror, Exhibit, & why I usually start the day with popping a caffeine pill

It's a good day when an essay gives you the word to describe yourself: Turns out I'm a *exophonic* writer. Read this marvelous piece, 'Creating an Alternative Canon in Translation' by Ellis Kierens, Alessandro Vettori, and Sandra Waters in ReadinginTranslation readingintranslation.com/2024/05/13/cre…

My god,
I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her
raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel
that I never got wet.

—Ada Limón

poets.org/poem/raincoat

#MothersDay

“We are never finished with grief. It is part of the fabric of living,” V. S. Naipaul writes, in a Personal History. “Love makes memories and life precious; the grief that comes to us is proportionate to that love and is inescapable.” nyer.cm/qKMrUg0