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'Punctuation controls two things: logical separation and breath… Writers weigh each role differently.' Matthew Zipf on Renata Adler's commas: theamericanscholar.org/in-the-matte... #books #reading #writing #fiction #punctuation #commas

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#MyBloodyValentine have announced a run of UK arena shows for this November. Tickets go on general sale at 10am GMT on April 4 buff.ly/KHgrg2Y

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Mitchell Abidor in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social reviews Peter Weiss’s novel 'The Aesthetics of Resistance, Vol. 3' (transl. Joel Scott), from @dukepress.bsky.social. Most of the characters are based on historical figures who resisted fascism pre- and during WW2. lareviewofbooks.org/article/diss...

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“I don’t work with plots. I work with intuition, apprehension, dreams, concepts.” This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with John Cheever from the archive.

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A plum magnolia offers itself to Spring in England

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buzzing in every sense

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'Had Cicero himself not once called Caesar his alter ego, the best anyone could hope for in a friend?' Christopher B. Krebs: Cicero drew the line at support for Caesar

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This is the title poem in a collection that hasn’t got a home. Ideas welcome. 🙏 ‘Beautiful loss’, first published in The Poet’s Quest for God, Eyewear.

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the entirety of Perec's LIEUX now available online: lieux-georges-perec.seuil.com

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Happy Mothering Sunday!

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“The way Musk talks about what they’re doing makes it sound very arbitrary, which enhances the fear. He spins his little globe and, zap!, we’re going to just get rid of this agency.”

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“I always wrote in English since I wanted my friends and the girls I was in love with to understand my poems.” —Charles Simic buff.ly/FwlIyW6

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'Outdoor concerts took place against the stink of burning flesh.' Caroline Moorehead: How was it possible to play for people on their way to the gas chambers?

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From Hammer Horror to kitsch to electronic music, to coincide with the publication of his new book, Owen Hatherley explores the neglected history of European music in Britain The Pasts and Futures of Central European Émigré Composers in Britain buff.ly/POecT0e

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My piece on David Lynch for Bookforum in 2016, “The Interpretation of Screams,” link in comments —

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a good intro to hegel, this...and also peter singer's hegel: a very short introduction. drb.ie/articles/tal...

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“A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.” —Susan Sontag

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'Language is essential in the comic, and its physical appearance was as carefully crafted as the art itself.' Nicole Rudick on how Futura captures the betwixt and between in Crockett Johnson's comic strip Barnaby: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ba... #reading #writing #comics #typography #design

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'Rilke’s reports of his audience with the ageing Leo Tolstoy make for painful, almost comic reading.' Ben Hutchinson: Rilke’s elegies and sonnets made him the pre-eminent German lyric poet

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'Gisèle pardoned her husband’s frequent infidelities, believing his freedom was fundamental to his ability to write poetry.' Mark Glanville on the correspondence of Paul Celan and his wife, Gisèle Lestrange

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"Showing off? Remember your age": Goya's title to this drawing of me tumbling down the kitchen stairs last Friday. Back from hospital today. Normal service (posting, emails, etc) will resume gradually.

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"'The Aesthetics of Resistance' is a monument to their lives and sacrifices, to the possibilities of art and its role in resisting evil." Mitchell Abidor looks at Peter Weiss's newly translated novel, "The Aesthetics of Resistance." lareviewofbooks.org/article/diss...

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'In the end, said Chandler, as one grew older, one grew out of gangsters and blondes and guns and, since they were the chief ingredients of thrillers, that was that.' Raymond Chandler died on this day, 66 years ago. From the archives, Ian Fleming's tribute: thelondonmagazine.org/archive-raym...

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As she moves up to co-lead vocal and songwriting duties for BCNR, Tyler Hyde selects 13 records that influence her craft, from #RandyNewman to #TheFall via Frank Ocean, "Blue" Gene Tyranny and more. God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums buff.ly/23r2rFz

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morning plum

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This week 7 years ago I started chemo and a year of treatment for #breastcancer. My brother tells me the excellent new ad for @breastcancernow.bsky.social ‘For all the things left unsaid’ affected him in a way my book did. Please read below to find out more.

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“I grew up in a stripped-down fundamentalist Protestant church … When I read O’Connor’s stories for the first time, in high school, I recognized her religious concerns as my own.” Jamie Quatro on Flannery O’Connor. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...

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ICYMI: We're back cataloging Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.

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David E. Cooper reflects on Pico Iyer's "Aflame": "Iyer's notion of stillness is not that of immobility, and requires unpacking as much as his idea of silence does." lareviewofbooks.org/article/eloq...

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Back in 1992 I got a chance to interview Sade. The world was never the same. daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/07/sade... --portrait of Sade in London, 1983 by Graham Smith.

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“I discovered ‘Evergreen’ in 1985 when I was a messenger in New York City and visiting bookstores daily. I bought the telephone book–thick ‘Evergreen Review Reader,’ and it changed my literary life.” —Contributor @magonzales.bsky.social on the backstory of his recent piece. aalbc.com/authors/arti...

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In the 1930s, the French realist filmmakers found a way to speak to and fight against the rising authoritarianism in their country and the world.

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'Wechsler’s intimations of the Grim Reaper prove correct when he dies a third of the way through the book, tanking Andrea’s documentary and, in her opinion, ending her career.' Jude Cook on the relationship between a novelist and a documentary film-maker

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'The quasi-biblical destruction of Hurston’s manuscripts is perhaps fitting for a writer whose later work retold the Old Testament story of Moses and the New Testament account of Herod the Great.' Douglas Field: The Biblical tyrant recast as an ideal ruler

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