Mitch Brown

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.

Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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Ange Mlinko · Germans don’t get toothache: Krasznahorkai’s Antimatter Donne’s triumphant ‘Death, thou shalt die’ has nothing on the apophatic reversals of László Krasznahorkai’s...

‘Art is a portal through which one enters the uncanny. It can bring havoc, or it can bring bliss.’

Ange Mlinko on the novels of László Krasznahorkai:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

21.03.2025 15:04 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

A scan of a linocut print, which has the text “Free people read freely” in block capitals above a person in a dress reaching to take a book from a large bookshelf

15.03.2025 16:24 — 👍 1309    🔁 340    💬 7    📌 7

Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction Back in 2017, White House Press Secretary Kellyann Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” to describe realities that were inconvenient to the first Trump Administration. Eight years later, as…

Authoritarians around the world are threatening the inherent value of facts and art. @laurenmarkham.bsky.social and I wrote about our belief in art that embraces facts. It’s why we’re hosting the Storyboard Residency this June. Read more @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/truth-power-...

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From Richard Siken’s “Crush” (2005, Yale)

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Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind This​ is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...

‘Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. You cannot get away from yourself in your own hand.’

Anne Carson on handwriting and Parkinson’s: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

08.03.2025 11:40 — 👍 39    🔁 8    💬 19    📌 2

Ash Wednesday - The Paris Review "Really I am just watching the movie of my childhood again."

“I am at best a lapsed Catholic though it would be more accurate to say that I never really began, just that I was raised against the backdrop of already-faded-Catholicism and its associated traumas.”

Sophie Haigney on Ash Wednesday. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/02...

05.03.2025 15:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Square graphic featuring a photo of the first page of the introduction to Ira Wells' On Book Banning, "Introduction: The New Censorship Consensus". In white text overlaying the image reads: The publisher and the diving bell: Featuring an excerpt from On Book Banning by Ira Wells.

New on the Bibliophile: An excerpt from ON BOOK BANNING by Ira Wells, plus a note on the busyness of publishing from publisher Dan Wells.

digitalbibliophile.substack.com/p/the-publis...

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Stephanie Burt · Poem: ‘Blown Milkweed Pods’

they have chosen

a bad trade: what’s left
of summer for winter; osmotic
satisfaction for sporadic rain;

a life in the sun for unpredictable shade,
like the one the hurricane made.

from ‘Blown Milkweed Pods’, by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Pinning one of the greatest gifts the little bird brought me in hopes this butterfly might do the same.

“And If I Fall” (Carl Phillips, from Then the War).

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Inching back post-little bird, hoping for some of what it offered.

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