'There is no clear sense of progression in Aira’s trajectory. Maybe for that reason, none of the readers I talked to could point to a favourite work. All of them defended themselves against the question, as if they ran the risk of being failed in an exam.'

The truth is out there. LARB Quarterly, no. 41: Truth is officially coming soon, featuring original nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry from Nada Alic, Rachel Cusk, Ira Sachs, CAConrad, Sam Sax, and more. lareviewofbooks.org/membership/

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A fascinating profile of César Aira, how he works and how he publishes: theguardian.com/news/article/2…

NBD just Lexi Freiman on The Daily Show tomorrow night!!! 😭

Tune in to watch her talk about The Book of Ayn (@CatapultStory) with Jordan Klepper! TV baby!!

Kristen Stewart protagonizará la próxima película de Albert Serra. Esto puede molar.

A very short story about Matt Damon, butterflies, Panama, the Scottish Colonial Project, Breughel, Vienna, my Wife The Brooklyn Rail

brooklynrail.org/2024/05/fictio…

‘Perhaps the great Australian novel’: Alexis Wright wins Stella prize for second time with Praiseworthy dlvr.it/T6JmwK

We are pleased to announce Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy as the winner of the #2024stellaprize !

I need to borrow around $10 million sothebys.com/en/buy/auction…

Shirley MacLaine cumple 90 años

For The Guardian I wrote about Sleep No More—which is ending in May—and the decade of 'immersive experiences' it spawned, a plague it seems we cannot escape

theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…

Richard Turley ཊལབསརངཧ Dean Kissick Kendall Storey and Samuel Rutter

Reading on Saturday at 12.20pm directly after Kendall “a rose is a rose is a rose” Storey 🌹and many others Kendall Storey

Every year, Sophie Calle throws a party for as many guests as there are years in her age + 1 'mystery guest' invited by a friend as 'a living representation of her future.'  💅🏼
Philippa Snow for Bookforum Magazine

bookforum.com/print/3004/two…

Vuelve la cheta que nos gusta.

Tune live at 10 ET to watch Kaija Straumanis play the “Slang Game” and talk PRAISEWORTHY’s meta-structure (and Samuel Rutter’s New York Times Books review) with Chad W. Post youtube.com/watch?v=9Lu1pB…