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Beetle Bailey and The Lexicon of Comicana: Brian Walker in Conversation with Tim Dumas - Society of Illustrators As the creator of the popular, long-running Beetle Bailey comic strip and the author of The Lexicon of Comicana, Mort Walker made an indelible contribution to t

Tomorrow (Wed., 6:30pm) at the Society of Illustrations Brian Walker and Tim Dumas discuss the enduring appeal of Beetle Bailey, the unbeatable how-to-draw-comics guide, Lexicon of Comicana, and their creator, Mort Walker.

This is a ticketed event, but you'll learn a lot.

Robert Glück and Miranda Mellis are doing an event together tonight in Seattle. Third Place Books in Seward Park (5041 Wilson Ave S) at 7pm.

Our edition of Glück's Jack the Modernist is out next week (but will be at the store for the event). Sex hasn't been written the same since.

and here he is @danielpinkwater.bsky.social

New Nancy Lemann book, The Oyster Diaries, coming out in April, along with NYRB edition of Lives of the Saints.

Numbers be damned, Amazon snaps up The Rock and Benny Safdie's very weird next movie Numbers be damned, Amazon snaps up The Rock and Benny Safdie's very weird next movie

"It is just very weird for us to wrap our heads around the idea of these two guys spending Bezos’ money to adapt a book we read several times with a flashlight under the covers as a kid, marveling at how unwilling it was to play by conventional rules" @avclub.com www.avclub.com/amazon-mgm-l...

Lizard Music Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news.  And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor ...

Lizard Music is an absolute house favorite. If you like books about weird kids devoted to their own passions going on outlandish adventures, this is the book for you. www.nyrb.com/products/liz...

Dwayne Johnson and Benny Safdie’s ‘Lizard Music’ Lands at Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists Amazon MGM Studios' United Artists and Scott Stuber won the rights to Dwayne Johnson and Benny Safdie's 'Lizard Music.'

Dwayne Johnson and Benny Safdie’s ‘Lizard Music’ Lands at Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists

You read that right, although they left the person who is made this all possible off the headline: DANIEL PINKWATER!

Tom McCarthy's new book, The Threshold and the Ledger, is a sustained reading of a single poem by Ingeborg Bachmann.

He'll be talking about writing on the threshold with Jeff Dolven, Lisabeth During, and Heidi Julavits on Saturday (6:30pm) at @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social (300 Nevins St., Bklyn).

A copy of I Used to be Charming on a bookcase packed with other NYRBs.

Page guide for group read of I Used to be Charming.

I just picked up my copy of I Used to be Charming by Eve Babitz and opened it up to the first essay. "All This and The Godfather too."
"I hope everyone's having a good time. I know I certainly am."
– Diane Keaton
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David Trotter · Unconditional Looking: Mrs Dalloway’s Demons Virginia Woolf admired Jane Austen above all for her ability to grasp the exceptional moment – ‘in which all the...

We got the real Mrs. Dalloway.

Driver by Mattia Filice Filice’s rhythmic and searching novel, written mostly in verse, follows an aspiring poet’s new life in contemporary Paris, where...

Mattia Filice's Driver is the story of a French train driver—his shifts, his colleagues, their strikes, the anxiety that comes from being in charge of a 260-ton machine carrying 1,000 passengers.

An early review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social

Poetry Review: "On the Slaughter" - Brilliant, Personal Translations of the National Poet of Israel - The Arts Fuse If there ever was anyone to handle Hayim Nahman Bialik’s broad, impressive, and impressionistic craft with the acute passion, it is scholar and poet Peter Cole.

Joann Green Breuer writes that, there ever was anyone to handle #hayimnahmanbialik’s broad, impressive, and impressionistic craft with the acute passion it demands, it is scholar and poet Peter Cole. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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Linda Rosenkrantz Made Art Out of Talk. Decades On, We’re Still Listening.

Linda Rosenkrantz profile! In advance of the release of Ira Sachs's film adaptation of her book, Peter Hujar's Day, which stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. But we recommend you read her groundbreaking novel, Talk.

"The culture had finally caught up with Rosenkrantz’s Warholian premise..." Yup.

Abrahamsen: Let me tell you with Barbara Hannigan Enjoy Hans Abrahamsen’s piece “let me tell you” with lyrics by Paul Griffiths, conducted by Kent Nagano. Recorded for GSOplay in Gothenburg Concert Hall in 2014 – with the amazing Barbara Hannigan as ...

Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social has used strict word constraints to write enchanting books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Let Me Tell You also became this astonishingly beautiful & strange work of music created by Hans Abrahamsen. Be mesmerised.

YouTube video by Archivio Luce Cinecittà Salvador Dalí in visita al parco di Bomarzo

Álvaro Enrigue, Xita Rubert, & Sam Rutter will be discussing Maunel Mujica Lainez's gothic, historic, fantastic novel, Bomarzo tonight at 7pm at Community Bookstore (143 7th Ave, Brooklyn).

The event will run a bit like this....

Psalmist of the Gap | Peter Cole Texts that are inertly of their time stay there: those which brush up unstintingly against historical constraints are the ones we keep with us, generation

"Political poems lead strange lives."

Peter Cole on Hayim Nahman Bialik and the history of his famous poem "On the Slaughter," originally written in 1903 and still loaded with political weight and divergent interpretations.

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"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."

Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.

Join us: www.equator.org

Excited - Pittsburgh Review of Books You’re not a lover till you blab about it. From earliest memory I’ve been excited and lonely, like a membrane that needs a caress during lovemaking, one

"A jay chided, aggressive. The aroma of wild fennel, a lure. A sportscar drove by, an impulse. Lily chased a cat, fun. We stepped off the curb. Our elbows touched, a hinge."

An excerpt from Robert Glück's JACK THE MODERNIST, recently re-released by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. pghrev.com/excited/

Edward Mendelson & Francesca Wade will be discussing the writing, correcting, and reading of Mrs. Dalloway, first published 100 years ago (though the accurate text has only just come out from yours truly), TONIGHT 7pm at @bookculture.com (536 W. 112th, NYC)

See you in the Upper West Side.

Tonight at 7 pm! Edward Mendelson discusses his book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social with Francesca Wade at @bookculture.com bit.ly/42i0NCv. @columbiaup.bsky.social

thank you!

Book Review: "Fifty Poems" - An Offering on the Altar of Rainer Maria Rilke - The Arts Fuse If, as a commemorative volume, "Fifty Poems" introduces readers to sample the German poet more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have acc...

If, as a commemorative volume, "Fifty Poems" invites readers to sample the German poet #rainermariarilke more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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Diane DiMassa won't be able to attend the event tonight.

read the interview between Diane and Jay Graham.

The Violent, Hilarious Return of “Hothead Paisan” Diane DiMassa’s “homicidal lesbian terrorist” was a star of underground comics in the nineties, but her “rage therapy” has lost none of its edge.

"Hothead Paisan remains perhaps the most iconic of all the underground queer comics from the nineties."

Jo Livingstone on Diane DiMassa and Hothead Paisan, recently published by NYR Comics.

Diane DiMassa, mother of Hothead Paisan, is in Boston tonight (7pm) at Boston Figurative Arts Center (285 Washington St., Somerville).

The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage.

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@bostoncomicarts.bsky.social

This Wednesday (10/8) at 7 pm! Edward Mendelson discusses his book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social with Francesca Wade at @bookculture.com
bit.ly/42i0NCv. @columbiaup.bsky.social

A Lost World War I Classic Returns, as Relevant as Ever

The first translation of Siegfried Kracauer's "harrowing and hilarious" WWI novel, Ginster, comes out tomorrow. No battles for Ginster, stages his own minor acts of resistance far from the front.

John Banville’s latest novel, Venetian Vespers, will be released by Knopf (@aaknopf.bsky.social) on Tuesday!

Check out his recent Book Post review of The Forbidden Experiment by Roger Shattuck (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) on our site → books.substack.com/p/review-joh...

Episode 39: The Stone Door Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE STONE DOOR by Leonora Carrington, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we wil…

Episode 39 is live, and it might be one of our best!
We discuss Leonora Carrington's singular THE STONE DOOR--and never has our love for each other been more tested!
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