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𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭. David & Nathan explore books. Season 3: FAMILY. Starts March, 2025. (account run by David)
We have a new 13 Questions Interview, this time with the great philosophical novelist and novel philosophist Lars Iyer (@UtterlySpurious). It is thorough, rich, and full of insight into great books! Check it out: booksofsomesubstance.com/blog/tnabwmku4…
It spills into your ears like a shattered clock, gears spinning in fives and nines, a saxophone screams at a traffic light turning purple, Brubeck’s piano grows feathers, flapping through a desert of jittery cacti, cool cats shimmy in a corner wearing mismatched socks
On literature's vexed uses in academe, and the disappearance of the aesthetic interest as such. Link in reply.
a touch of sadness as I write the final pages of something that began in silence years ago that lived with me longer even than the fragments on death once a letter to Blanchot now a letter to the Other be it a lover a double the sea a letter without marks or structure mere breath
a touch of sadness as I write the final pages of something that began in silence years ago that lived with me longer even than the fragments on death once a letter to Blanchot now a letter to the Other be it a lover a double the sea a letter without marks or structure mere breath
Since everyone is reading Vineland in preparation for the new PTA Pynchon film, I want to shamelessly plug my old essay on the novel in which I close-read the rhythm of a single sentence from early in the book: kenyonreview.org/2019/05/close-…
Newest 13 Questions interview is out. With author Alvin Lu (@alvinlu) of the newly published novel Daydreamers (@FCtwo), which I am currently reading and really enjoying! Check it out: booksofsomesubstance.com/blog/13-questi…
Get a 30% Discount of our latest release by @alvinlu with Promo Code BAMA, via @UnivofALPress uapress.ua.edu/9781573662123/…
Daydreamers is out in the world now. "A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch "Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine Cover concept by @iLLepitaph
Happy Official Pub Day to @alvinlu's DAYDREAMERS! Get your copy of this mesmerizing work today! fc2.org/authors/lu/#da… ( For review copies, query to Samantha Huff-Robertson at [email protected] ~ we love being an imprint of @UnivofALPress ! )
Deep Vellum is very pleased to present the Fall 2025 / Winter 2026 catalog for all titles in the Deep Vellum family, including Dalkey Archive, Open Letter, and Fum d’Estampa. Available now on our website, link in the second tweet
My writing world is so damn blessed by Alvin and @NameofAuthor1. I firmly believe the most interesting literary things are happening in small rooms, in minor keys, between ellipses and backyard tire fires. 🖤
Come hang out with me and @aliner in a few weeks—August 3 (American Time)—as we read from our books My Heresies and Daydreamers, at this online event hosted by the illustrious @NameofAuthor1. Register with the form below. A link to attend will be emailed to you.
A poem from 2021 that I wrote in the course of editing the book: minorliteratures.com/2021/10/20/cen…
No one ever begins anything, except by grace. To sin means to think that one can begin something oneself. We never start anything; we always respond. — René Girard, Battling to the End, 22
The opening of my novel Daydreamers is now up at @MinorLits. Thank you @TobiasvRyan. The book is out next week from @FCtwo.
“I, too, go on living somewhere, blessed with all kinds of wounds.” —Malina, Ingeborg Bachmann; tr. Philip Boehm
"Lu brings to life a haunting story of immigrants and artists in Daydreamers." My novel Daydreamers featured in this list of 12 new books for July "by authors on and of the West" in @altajournal.