“What is also radical about her work is the sneaky happiness and joy that persists in it, even as she’s also melancholy, pugnacious, sensual, bored.” Rivka Galchen writes about Bernadette Mayer with such precision and love in ⁦The New Yorker⁩ newyorker.com/news/postscrip…

I am very sad to miss this today, but if you are anywhere near the vicinity of Hudson, NY, absolutely go! Big hugs to flowchartfoundation and all the amazing things they’re doing in virtual and analogue spaces!

Another pic of the fag-burned, tea-stained index that Tom Phillips produced to help him plan out "A Humument"

No offense to everyone, but this was the last truly Good magazine. If I'm a writer at all, it's only because Mara asked me to write something for Bookforum a few years ago.

Just a note to say I am enormously proud of the what we did at Bookforum. I was so lucky to work with the editors for more than 10 years as the design director. I know how beloved it was by so many people. My first issue as design director was fall 2011

This is awful. A rich person should buy Bookforum and leave it completely alone

Totally ridiculous, terrible, and pathetic. I’m grateful to Bookforum Magazine and its hardworking editors for publishing my work over the years. This is a huge loss to American letters and to the culture in general.

Oh no. This is just such a bummer for books and criticism and the world of ideas that Bookforum Magazine so brilliantly illuminated, all while letting its writers retain their own idiosyncratic style.

Editors at Bookforum Magazine gave me some of my most unusual assignments—a novel by the Turkish master Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, a burglar’s guide to architecture, a review essay on utopias—and it drew me to some of the best writing on the most unusual books. Its shuttering is a real loss.

The first book I reviewed for Bookforum, in 1994, was the diaries of Joseph Cornell, edited by Mary Ann Caws. That book, to me, symbolizes the aesthetic resources—intricacy, strangeness, imagination—that are threatened by the shutdown of journals like Bookforum.

On Dec 21, Susan Briante reminds us of Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day project and 2022's Midwinter Constellations (and also Xmas lights): essaydaily.org/2022/12/advent…

Don't miss today's conversation with Lucy Ives, a deep dive into narrative & the novel, and a deep dive into Life is Everywhere, Lucy's latest novel, & the many ways it is influenced by @ursulaleguin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction✨ Audio📻:tinhouse.com/podcast/lucy-i… Janklow & Nesbit

“I…became curious about value: how we make judgments about the quality of art. As a first step, I let go of my attachment to normative standards of success…I found elating aesthetic experiences awaiting me, there in the cultural shadows.” Here! Here! For Post45 Journal.

Visual art from our #BlackHistoryMonth reading list: Troy Montes-Michie’s Rock of Eye (Siglio Press) is “a tactile and sensuous artist’s book, recalling the forms of both magazines and swatch books” and featuring contributions by various artists. sigliopress.com/titles/rock-of…

A must-see!

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Seconded.

Poetry and art in public life. and Rage is your gold, a conversation MOCA Tucson Rosa Alcala @danielborzutsky Cecilia Vicuña voca.arizona.edu/reading/cecili…

In the latest issue of The Yale Review Daniel Poppick writes eloquently about Bernadette Mayer: “Memory is circumscribed, but language cannot keep up with it. Mayer tried anyway, and … she helped push poetry forward into places it had never been before.” yalereview.org/article/daniel…