JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

Out this week: my first issue as fiction editor of Cleveland Review of Books, feat. creative work by Jessi Jezewska Stevens! Brontez Purnell! mariah! Snag one below

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I adore Ferrante because she writes fairy tales (about class & much more)—

I am really happy to share that my next book, The Vivisectors, will be published by MCD⨯FSG in the US and by 4th Estate Books in the U.K 💫 Thank you so much to Kishani Widyaratna and jackson howard and my sweet John Ash 🧡 thebookseller.com/rights/4th-est…

Jessi Jezewska Stevens hello! I just finished Ghost Pains and just wanted to say that I think its fantastic. Thank you!

What motivates the seemingly endless quest to translate Proust? Simon Leser on C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Lydia Davis, Benjamin Moser, and “the state of translation.” thedriftmag.com/time-and-time-…

OUT NOW: Ten mystery-thriller reads to get you through the summer heat, including Hermione Hoby and Jessi Jezewska Stevens on novels by Marie NDiaye, David O'Neill on Edouard Louis and Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jean-Christophe Castelli on Ismail Kadare, and more 4columns.org

best of all possible late summer rereads

I have been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize! Very honored, and in great company 💚 centerforfiction.org/book-recs/2024…

The real Lutz Seiler coming your way in just over a month from Books at NYRB, trans by tesslewis. Tess is one of my very favorite translators from the German, and Seiler is a big-deal favorite in Germany, here recollecting bewilderment at the end of the GDR— Out Sept 17th~

Thanks for shining WOMAN OF INTEREST alongside many pals like Marie-Helene Bertino Jessi Jezewska Stevens Alexandra Tanner Vanessa Chan and Justin Taylor ✨

Hello to GHOST PAINS and many other standouts on this list! (Sloane Crosley, Tracy O'Neill, Justin Taylor, Alexandra Tanner, many other judicious talents no longer on Twitter)

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Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens— best short story collection i’ve read in some time, and by a contemporary author too; Stevens has a really wonderful sense of space within the confines of perspective. thumbs up!

Well well well. What fine galleys greet me this swell morning. ⁦Ryan Ruby⁩ ⁦Seven Stories Press⁩

If we are voting on novels of failed revolution, and if the 19th-century is back, mark me down for Stendhal, who is also funny.