this Condé Nast Traveler interview dropped a few hours after I received confirmation of my newly obtained Permanent Resident status in Canada, about a month before my work permit was to expire 🎉 — and now onwards, to continue living aslant, and to continue disliking house structures and yards —
               
            
            
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            GIVE THEM SPACE! My review of PRECARIOUS LEASE by Jacqueline Feldman, just published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is up now @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social (bref: this is an excellent book) lareviewofbooks.org/article/give...
               
            
            
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                                            Chicagoan in Toronto, art worker, autodidact, dad. This is mostly a read-and-reply account. More about me at sholis.com; I’m also building valise.works for artists.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Author of The War of Art
http://www.lo-b.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            En librairie: « Entre chiens et loups » chez Stock #Mazan
Previously au Tripode: « Calme et tranquille » (2016) et « Le Sillon » (2018), prix Renaudot. 
Vit et écrit à Marseille mais mon truc dans la vie, c’est les trains et les fleuves
                                     
                            
                            
                    
                    
                                            author of Burning Down the Haus; translator of Sibylle Berg, Wolfgang Herrndorf, Alina Bronsky, etc; co-writer of memoirs by Gil Scott-Heron, Duff McKagan, Paul Stanley, Genesis P-Orridge; semi-retired club DJ
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Writer and Photographer, author of The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography, New York City of Trees, and other books
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            Author of Fancy Gap and A Kind of Tempered Glory — Penguin Canada
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            She/they. Sometimes I do conceptual art. Sometimes I don't. Gangster pastor, allegedly.
"The only way that we, the small and the ordinary, might survive in any decent way, is if we learn to take care of each other."
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Writer and editor. Proprietor of The Second Shelf, a feminist rare bookshop focused on first editions, ephemera, manuscripts, and collectable but often overlooked works by women and queer folks. First book, Train, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. She/her. 
                                     
                            
                            
                    
                    
                                            Thought-provoking ideas, published every fortnight.
Read: https://lrb.co.uk
Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-lrb-podcast/id510327102
Subscribe: https://mylrb.co.uk/TWQU0725
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Escritor de libros. 
Cullman Center Fellow 2022. Finalista Premio Herralde 2021. Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award 2020. 
English y español aquí.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Author of Flâneuse, No 91/92, Art Monsters, Scaffolding. Next up: VOCAL BREAK (May 2026).
Translator of Simone de Beauvoir, Michelle Perrot, Colombe Schneck, Constance Debré, Lola Lafon, et al
London <> Paris 
she/her
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Dad Had a Bad Day @astrahousebooks 5.19.26 / You’ll Like it Here @dalkey_archive / rep: Chris Fischbach
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            "exposed on a high ledge in full light"
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Novelist, etc. New novel: AUDITION, out April 2025 from Riverhead Books.