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Who has a new piece out in @bookforum.bsky.social and loves cats to a dysfunctional degree? www.bookforum.com/print/3104/c...
23.04.2025 20:06 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
I wrote about Stephen Rodefer’s Four Lectures for @bookforum.bsky.social, just reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.
I’ve been waiting 20 years for this book
A stellar review of SAD TIGER in the Spring issue of @bookforum.bsky.social:
"Sinno refuses to be hamstrung by genre, choosing a balletic approach, as if only a choreographed dance around her subject, again and again, will properly encapsulate its blast radius."
www.bookforum.com/print/3104/b...
Elias Altman's thoughtful and beautiful writing on SAD TIGER in @bookforum.bsky.social is a gift to us all. "the mark of a fierce mind for whom getting better is far less interesting than getting real." www.bookforum.com/print/3104/b...
24.04.2025 14:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
For @bookforum.bsky.social, I wrote about “Portraits in Life and Death,” Peter Hujar’s 1975 photography collection depicting the mostly gay artists and intellectuals of New York’s downtown on the cusp of the AIDS crisis. www.bookforum.com/print/3104/t...
24.04.2025 16:50 — 👍 60 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
He’s reminding me to resubscribe to @bookforum.bsky.social now that I got my last print issue on the way in. He’s very alarmed about it!
26.04.2025 21:13 — 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In the new issue of @bookforum.bsky.social , Kay Gabriel and Patrick DeDauw review our three-volume translation of Peter Weiss's magnum opus, "The Aesthetics of Resistance," and comment on how necessary it is in this political moment.
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The Spring issue is here!
David Velasco interviews @sarahmschulman.bsky.social, essays & reviews by Lidija Haas, @moiradonegan.bsky.social, @hujane.bsky.social, Audrey Wollen, Harmony Holiday, @charoshane.bsky.social, @sashafrerejones.bsky.social, Hannah Black, and more. bookforum.com/print/3104
The Spring issue is here!
David Velasco interviews @sarahmschulman.bsky.social, essays & reviews by Lidija Haas, @moiradonegan.bsky.social, @hujane.bsky.social, Audrey Wollen, Harmony Holiday, @charoshane.bsky.social, @sashafrerejones.bsky.social, Hannah Black, and more. bookforum.com/print/3104
i reviewed the new katie kitamura for @bookforum.bsky.social (it broke my brain): www.bookforum.com/print/3104/b...
23.04.2025 16:32 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Hi! Yes, please get in touch at bookforumcirculation@gmail.com
25.03.2025 19:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"The moment is more ludicrous than lubricious; Lynn notes that Miss Maxfeld, in order to smooch the girl, has to 'lift me up so that the heels of my Village Cobbler shoes rose off the floor.'"
In our winter issue, Melissa Anderson reviews Jane DeLynn's IN THRALL: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/s...
"The real crime, Boullosa seems to argue, is not the mere act of stealing, but how theft becomes enshrined into law and then retroactively justified."
Read @rachelmonroe.bsky.social on @carmenboullosa.bsky.social's TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT (@deepvellum.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
The WINTER ISSUE is here! With Audrey Wollen on Joy Williams, Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Ágota Kristóf, Hermione Hoby on divorce narratives, Andrew Chan on Joe Brainard's letters, and so much more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3103
13.02.2025 21:30 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
"It is clear today—as perhaps it was not then—that the issue is not awareness. Ours is a world that does not intuit others’ humanity. And ours is a world that does."
Mary Turfah reads Isabella Hammad's RECOGNIZING THE STRANGER: ON PALESTINE AND NARRATIVE www.bookforum.com/print/3103/i...
My piece on David Lynch for Bookforum in 2016, “The Interpretation of Screams,” link in comments —
17.01.2025 00:14 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
In the latest issue of Bookforum, @geneseymour.bsky.social has a really nice review of IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS. The book is available from Amazon and Abebooks in the US, and the publisher, Wolke Verlag, ships worldwide via DHL.
www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
'Imagine the violence of a world whose fix for genocide—which one is funding—is dissociation... Instead, if we are to stay here, “to remain human at this juncture is to remain in agony.”'
Mary Turfah on Isabella Hammad's Recognizing the Stranger
www.bookforum.com/print/3103/i...
"But even if these novels are not quite like each other—and not quite like themselves—they are not quite like anything else, either."
Becca Rothfeld on Antonio Di Benedetto in @bookforum.bsky.social. The Suicides is now out in @eallen.bsky.social's translation.
www.bookforum.com/print/3103/n...
"Her puns pummel the reader, multiplying meanings; lines possess double (or more) of their sense, no need (no room!) to read between them."
Read @jenniferkrasinski.bsky.social on Elfriede Jelinek's THE CHILDREN OF THE DEAD (@yalepress.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/m...
THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO "becomes an argument against reparations, a treatise on the impossibility of repair through monetization or monumentalization of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities."
Harmony Holiday reads @brandonshimoda.bsky.social's new book: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
"Even these characters’ worst crimes and cruelties are omissions rather than commissions. Di Benedetto’s narrators cannot take hold of anything, even their own callousness."
Becca Rothfeld considers Antonio di Benedetto’s "Trilogy of Expectation": www.bookforum.com/print/3103/n...
"Brainard’s letters read like a natural extension of his creative ethos; regardless of what genre or mode he was working in, he always seemed to be addressing his audience as though it were his own tightknit inner circle."
Read Andrew Chan on Joe Brainard: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/c...
"We as a species must grow more familiar with the basic concept of limits, hard stops, final goodbyes; our world has them, as do our words."
Audrey Wollen reads Joy Williams (@tinhouse.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
"What puzzles me is that divorce has acquired increasing literary significance to the very degree that marriage has forfeited social meaning."
Read Hermione Hoby on divorce narratives: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/r...
"Who is 'we'? Am I you? Like anyone forced to leave family, country, and language behind, the repatriated Kristóf—one of the postwar greats of European literature—would have rather stayed at home."
Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Ágota Kristóf: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/y...
The WINTER ISSUE is here! With Audrey Wollen on Joy Williams, Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Ágota Kristóf, Hermione Hoby on divorce narratives, Andrew Chan on Joe Brainard's letters, and so much more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3103
13.02.2025 21:30 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A brilliant review @bookforum.bsky.social for Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams!✨
www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
"[LOVE, JOE] functions as a guidebook on how to be lovable, a lesson in the importance of withholding judgment, being abidingly present, and seeing one’s friends—minutely, fondly, unblinkingly—for all that they are." via @bookforum.bsky.social. shorturl.at/TqNbp @columbiaup.bsky.social
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