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This year marks the 70th anniversary of City Lights Bookstore! City Lights was founded in 1953 as the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore and as a “literary meeting place.” Join us as we celebrate online and in the store. Full calendar of events: citylights.com/city-lights-70…

Lerner's work is very close to my heart, and I find this very moving

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

This is the best birthday cake I've ever seen

Made my month

Had been trying to place my recognition of a certain tonality of the soul in Knausgaard’s The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity, and finally it came to me: Kieślowski’s Dekalog.

Chasing the high of reading Stephen King novels in October as a tween

Sontag on Barthes: ‘He dares to conceive of writing as a kind of happiness’

Pretty cool that they gave the Nobel to a character from My Struggle. Really pushing the boundaries!

The last time I felt like this was when Liverpool won the Champions League

Love gossip

W. H. Auden’s six functions of literary criticism. Has he missed anything?

If you order the last two volumes of Jon Fosse's Septology (Fitzcarraldo Editions) online from Waterstones, the parcel that will arrive at your house will weigh exactly 666g. This is not a joke.

Translator’s note in the new Énard

welcome to the family marty 🤌

Looking forward to reading the 4th novel in Knausgaard’s Morning Star sequence in English in… 2027

majored in English because I wanted to be a writer but also, to be totally frank, because I thought it was cool? Let’s bring that back.

If you start watching Satantango on New Year’s Eve at 9:40pm, then when the clock hits midnight you’ll still have five hours to go