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Happy to report that I will be translating Gisèle Sapiro’s « Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur ? »

CAN WE SEPARATE THE WORK FROM THE AUTHOR?

for @stanfordpress.bsky.social !

Next time I’m by there I’ll enquire!

I don’t, and perhaps you already know this but Brentano’s still has a store in operation in Paris near opéra. It went bankrupt a few years ago and was bought by new owners, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they have some of the original papers. I’d be happy to do some recon for you…

also this week ...

If you're in Paris, don't miss the launch of @benlibman.bsky.social 's THE THIRD SOLITUDE

19h, Monday June 2nd
@ The Red Wheelbarrow

"In the realm of the Law we have terms for this, like aiding & abetting. You vote for your own tax $ to go toward the perpetuation of this killing & this immiseration..turn(ing) kids into dust. Ask yourself: do you consent to this?" Great @benlibman.bsky.social i/view @minorliteratures.bsky.social

"It’s about the people and the places that made me. I’m the prism through which all of this is observed or narrated, but I think that’s true of any nonfiction book whether we like it or not. " Ben Libman @benlibman.bsky.social talks to Cristina Politano @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his new book.

“I don’t want to overstate the case, but what’s at stake is life and death”: An Interview with Benjamin Libman — Cristina Politano Benjamin Libman is a Paris-based Canadian writer who has mined the geographical specifics of his family’s history, from Nazi-occupied Austria to post-war Canada, in order to challenge the cre…

"It is your responsibility to use what you’ve been given for a greater good. And it is your responsibility to rid what you have been given of the evil that attaches to it ..."

@benlibman.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/05/29/i...

for those in Paris, there's a launch event for @benlibman.bsky.social 's new book, THE THIRD SOLITUDE, on Monday @ The Red Wheelbarrow

“I don’t want to overstate the case, but what’s at stake is life and death”: An Interview with Ben Libman — Cristina Politano Ben Libman is a Paris-based Canadian writer who has mined the geographical specifics of his family’s history, from Nazi-occupied Austria to post-war Canada, in order to challenge the creation…

“I don’t want to overstate the case, but what’s at stake is life and death”: An Interview with Ben Libman (@benlibman.bsky.social) —Cristina Politano (@monalisavitti.bsky.social)

minorliteratures.com/2025/05/29/i...

and coming up this week ...

— an extract from ANIMA FATUA by Anna Lidia Vega Serova (tr. @robmunb.bsky.social)

— @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @benlibman.bsky.social about his new book THE THIRD SOLITUDE

featuring Emily Lu, @unpaginated.bsky.social @zebulonhourse.bsky.social @kimchimarx.bsky.social Benjamin Robinson, Anna Lidia Vega Serova (tr. @robmunb.bsky.social) Diane Seuss, @benlibman.bsky.social Jon Cone @carolinehardaker.bsky.social & more ...

Friday, May 30th, 2025 Clayton Childress (UBC). How Shared is Common Culture? A View from the Middle School Library Simone Murray (Monash), Michelle J. Smith (Monash) and Alex Bacalja (U.Melb), Where Is the Digital in High-school English? Alexander Manshel (McGill), CliffsNotes, SparkNotes, and Shmoop: A New History of Literary Criticism Ben Libman (Stanford), Grove Press and the Extramural Teach-In

On Friday, May 30th...Clayton Childress, Simone Murray, Michelle Smith, @alexbacalja.bsky.social, @benlibman.bsky.social, and me on "The Curricular and the Extra-Curricular"...

keep your eye on minor lits for an interview with @benlibman.bsky.social ....

congrats to @benlibman.bsky.social on the publication of The Third Solitude

MONTREAL! I hope you'll join me for the launch of @benlibman.bsky.social's outstanding new book! DE STIIL BOOKSELLERS | Friday, May 16 at 6:00 pm!

venez nombreux

@benlibman.bsky.social

DM your address — I’ll send a copy :-)

MONTREAL — the brilliant Alyssa and I will be discussing my book, The Third Solitude, on May 16. Wine and cheese are also rumoured….

been looking forward to this
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I’ve just learned that my splendid agent is leaving the biz.

If you’re an agent on here, are familiar with or curious about my work, and would like to chat about representation, my DMs are open.

I have a book forthcoming in May and lots more on the stove. benlibman.info

In inboxes tomorrow morning: a new installment of Further Materials, our newsletter series that takes a look behind the scenes of pieces in the magazine. Sign up here to read @benlibman.bsky.social on Jon Fosse:
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Red River Valley — Ben Libman I'm old in this house the one we shared, old and baffled, liver searing on the stove, and out on the plain the smoking fog in cowlick curls can't soothe me anymore, didn't say where he was going or wh...

Red River Valley — Ben Libman (@benlibman.bsky.social )

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CADAVRE EXQUI[S] Interminably tangled, the escalators wove themselves into a vast network, a great steel octopode either in conflict with or consoling itself. Heart rising to throat, sinking fast. In ascent and descen...

ICYMI — last week at Minor Lits

CADAVRE EXQUI[S]

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Better Shopping Through Living — Frank Garrett

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Red River Valley — @benlibman.bsky.social

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A short story, taken from a larger project, entitled "S/Z" for 3:AM: https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/s-z/

The Great Silence: On Jon Fosse’s “Septology” Innumerable nothings happen in the dim, watery fjord lands of Jon Fosse’s novels and plays. In the novella Aliss at the Fire, a woman named […]

A review of Jon Fosse's recent work in translation for The Point:

At a Slight Angle to the Universe by Ben Libman | Poetry Foundation C.P. Cavafy was not a poet of his time but the bard of a lost age—or an age still to come.

An essay on the late great C. P. Cavafy for POETRY:

using this opportunity to share three recent(ish) pieces...

We have the opportunity to redo the MD v Middlemarch poll

no one on this platform has observed that moby-dick, or the whale is the great american novel.