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And yet we keep reading our submissions looking for its return.

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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When Covid hit, our distributor notified us it had destroyed all of the new LitMag #3 that had just shipped. Then it notified us half were saved. Some of those saved copies got to open stores. Good to see LitMag #3 finally on a Barnes & Noble shelf.

The love I have known is the love of two people staring Not at each other, but in the same direction. - Frank Bidart

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Bard Books will be publishing two terrific new books by Gordon Lish in 2024. bardbooks.com Anyone who wants to share notes or anything else--hit us.

Bard Books Launches with Two Titles from Gordon Lish publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in… via Publishers Weekly

Virginia Woolf and The Beatles. Each did all there was to do in their art in about 7 years.

Ah, now this is true.

No, you can't publish without Lish. Thus, Bard Books is excited to launch by publishing two new novels by Gordon Lish. Read the story in Publishers Weekly: publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in… Two killer books by Captain Fiction. As Groucho Marx would say: It's the only way to publish.

Give this book to your father. Gordon Lish, Annals and Indices. Publishes June 26, 2024. Available today at: asterismbooks.com/publisher/bard……

Book news: I have been working on three books on Shakespeare. This is the first: SHAKESPEARE ON SEX. If you like sex and value liberation, this one's for you. And it's Shakespeare. Many thanks to my wonderful agent Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group literary agent and publisher Tony Lyons.

Something to chew on this Sunday morning, creative people.