.Karen Leeder on Lutz Seiler's Star 111 in The TLS: "The author’s shimmering, ironic and musical prose – impeccably translated by Tess Lewis (tesslewis) – captures a moment both archaic and profoundly real." Set in Berlin, 1989, coming to the U. S. in September.

March Short Fuse Madness! A lineup of critical salvos from me, tesslewis, Peter Keough, Peg Aloi, Peter Walsh, Susan Miron, Mark Favermann, Ralph Locke, and John Killacky. artsfuse.org/288023/

Please join us and Austrian Cultural Forum New York on 3/28 when we present a reading and conversation with Teresa Präauer and Jessi Jezewska Stevens discussing their recent books "Kochen im falschen Jahrhundert" (Wallstein Verlag) and "Ghost Pains" (And Other Stories) with tesslewis. RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

some thoughts on Jessi Jezewska Stevens's Ghost Pains And Other Stories

Can't wait to talk with @wortsman on Monday Deutsches Haus about Rahel Varnhagen's letters. It's clear why Hannah Arendt considered RV her "closest friend, though she ha[d] been dead for some hundred years". as.nyu.edu/research-cente…

out with Seagull Books سیگل

Delighted that my translation of Cécile Wajsbrot's novel Nevermore, out this fall from Seagull Books سیگل, is in such amazing company Jenny Croft and Emma Ramadan. electricliterature.com/7-novels-books…

Events - New York - Goethe-Institut New York - USA goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/…

great cover for the novella Ingeborg Bachmann wrote at 19, which Philip Boehm and I co-translated. New Directions

'An exceptional story of fresh starts'! publishersweekly.com/9781681378534

Published in the UK by And Other Stories, true Seiler champions! Stefan Tobler

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An early review for Lutz Seiler's Star 111 (pub date: 10/1; translated by tesslewis) from Kirkus Reviews "Seiler's dry wit and command of language, which can itself be musical, keep the pages humming."

BEHOLD! Winter ’25, featuring: Osamu Dazai, Eça de Queirós, Mai Ishizawa, Evelio Rosero, José Donoso, Claire Baglin, Essex Hemphill, César Vallejo, Marcia Douglas, Hasib Hourani, Aharon Shabtai, and Ingeborg Bachmann. cdn.sanity.io/files/p34gzxcg…

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~

Now coming out October 1st. We are very excited for all of you to read this one!

Delighted to have a preview of my Montaigne translation in the new The Hudson Review. It is one of a collection of Montaigne essays on education and childrearing forthcoming from Princeton UP and edited by Scott Newstok.

accessible here: hudsonreview.com/2024/09/on-ped…