ACTUAL SERIOUS FICTION WRITTEN IN ENGLISH about LIFE NOW! FUNNY, SOPHISTICATED, CRITICAL, SAD! granta.com/embrace/

This was really fucking good

Very excited to speak to Vigdis Hjorth about her work, and the new Verso Books translation of her novel IF ONLY, at London Review Bookshop in September. Book tickets here! eventbrite.co.uk/e/vigdis-hjort…

If you all don’t stop talking about this you’re going to have to do 150 pages a day, and no dessert

Max doing the work to get “straight men” to read novels again

Cool paintings, for fans of Domenico Gnoli nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Hi boys

Have seen like 8 versions of this tweet, which are exactly the same except all use a different word for penis

4 Sep: Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth returns to the shop to discuss her masterpiece IF ONLY, published in English for the first time this month (tr. Charlotte Barslund), with Lauren Oyler Book here: lrb.me/an3

This is sold out! Buy the book and see you next week!

I hope not…

What better way to celebrate our fake May Day, Labor Day, than to announce that my book "Fake Work" will be coming out next year with Haymarket Books; the book recounts my time working as a management consultant on a corporate Y2K project.

Love the idea that BERLIN is where you develop a marijuana addiction…

I would like to make the case for beauty. That’s why I’m going to write in most wide-eyed and robotic prose style I can.

When you have like 20 venereal diseases —

At a reading this year someone asked me what my opinion on libraries was, because they take sales away from authors… (someone else in the audience explained the economics of library copies better than I could, thank you to him)

I love this prompt… surely it means the most incoherent movie character of all time