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I'm finding it almost impossible to engage with social media these days. But a couple of recent releases have arrived over the past week or so courtesy of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I'm finding it almost impossible to engage with social media these days. But a couple of recent releases have arrived over the past week or so courtesy of @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
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me waking up and opening this app
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
me waking up and opening this app
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Publication day (paperback @pantheonbooks.bsky.social):
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Publication day (paperback @pantheonbooks.bsky.social):
Sooo looking forward to reading this. Loved THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR!
Here is the beautiful cover for my new novel, MEDIUM RARE, dropping March 3, 2026 from @melvillehouse.bsky.social
You can preorder it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813956...
You can preorder it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813956...
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Sooo looking forward to reading this. Loved THE PORTRAIT OF A MIRROR!
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The Literary Arts Fund is an unprecedented effort to dramatically increase support for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field for the next five years toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers: literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Literary Arts Fund is an unprecedented effort to dramatically increase support for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field for the next five years toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers: literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...
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A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...
PANIC IN THE GIFTSHOP
On Michael Clune's 'Pan' and against the verb 'to gift'
christianlorentzen.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...
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After over a century, Oscar Wilde’s borrowing privileges have finally been restored.
How Oscar Wilde finally got his library card back.
This weekend, the British Library issued a century-late apology to Oscar Wilde in the form of a brand new library card. The Irish poet-novelist-playwright was the toast of 19th-century Anglo letter…
buff.ly
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
After over a century, Oscar Wilde’s borrowing privileges have finally been restored.
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Zoe Dubno, author of HAPPINESS AND LOVE, interviewed in VOGUE.
https://bit.ly/47VPYtn
https://bit.ly/47VPYtn
Zoe Dubno on ‘Happiness and Love,’ Her Wickedly Funny Debut Novel Skewering New York’s Creative Class
The author talks to Vogue about the distinctive style (and playful humor) of her breakout novel—and why fashion played a surprisingly bring role in bringing the world she depicts to life.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Zoe Dubno, author of HAPPINESS AND LOVE, interviewed in VOGUE.
https://bit.ly/47VPYtn
https://bit.ly/47VPYtn
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard. Read it.
October 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard. Read it.
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I talked to @timrelf.bsky.social about my forthcoming novel, TIME BEING, for @saltpublishing.com's House Magazine. Out September 2026, folks. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...
Jude Cook discusses his new novel, Time Being
by Tim Relf With the countdown on to publication of Jude Cook’s ‘existential’ literary thriller, Time Being, House catches up with the acclaimed author to find out what makes him tick 1. Tell us a lit...
www.saltpublishing.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I talked to @timrelf.bsky.social about my forthcoming novel, TIME BEING, for @saltpublishing.com's House Magazine. Out September 2026, folks. www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-...
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An homor and pleasure to be in conversation with Brandon Taylor one of the contemporary novelists I most admire. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
October 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
An homor and pleasure to be in conversation with Brandon Taylor one of the contemporary novelists I most admire. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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In 1999, the LA Times asked 36 writers, from Susan Sontag to Elmore Leonard, to share their neglected classics of the century, books they loved but which failed to find the readers they deserved. You can read their responses here:
neglectedbooks.com/?...
neglectedbooks.com/?...
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In 1999, the LA Times asked 36 writers, from Susan Sontag to Elmore Leonard, to share their neglected classics of the century, books they loved but which failed to find the readers they deserved. You can read their responses here:
neglectedbooks.com/?...
neglectedbooks.com/?...
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People have written about Muriel Spark so often that every piece now has to be a kind of meta- or meta-meta-criticism. Leo Robson is up to the task in the latest Bookforum, with nice excursions into Robbe-Grillet, Frank Kermode, Ian McEwan & John Updike. www.bookforum.com/print/3202/t...
The Rules of the Dame
Novelist Muriel Spark’s God’s-eye view
– Leo Robson
www.bookforum.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
People have written about Muriel Spark so often that every piece now has to be a kind of meta- or meta-meta-criticism. Leo Robson is up to the task in the latest Bookforum, with nice excursions into Robbe-Grillet, Frank Kermode, Ian McEwan & John Updike. www.bookforum.com/print/3202/t...
The Novelist Who Knows What Millennials Want www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/s...
The Novelist Who Knows What Millennials Want
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The Novelist Who Knows What Millennials Want www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/s...
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I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!
The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders
This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!
As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
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"Resurrection," the black sheep of Tolstoy's fiction, is far more dramatically adroit than its reputation had led me to believe; but its absolutist ethics are thrilling and unsettling too. My look at a novel that was censored in its time and will still shake you up today. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Resurrection’
A long-neglected novel by the author of ‘Anna Karenina’ tracks a privileged man’s confrontation with his own moral failures.
www.wsj.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"Resurrection," the black sheep of Tolstoy's fiction, is far more dramatically adroit than its reputation had led me to believe; but its absolutist ethics are thrilling and unsettling too. My look at a novel that was censored in its time and will still shake you up today. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
How to read like a Booker Prize judge – according to Chris Power | The Booker Prizes
From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, here are eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books
thebookerprizes.pulse.ly
August 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
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New arrival. Translation by Oonagh Stransky.
August 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
New arrival. Translation by Oonagh Stransky.
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The smart hosts and big readers @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social were kind enough to have me on their podcast to discuss my subject of choice: starter libraries. What does that mean? I thought I knew until I started completing the task...
What does it take to build the perfect first shelf? This week e’re joined by @johnwilliams.bsky.social, to discuss how to choose ten books that someone can use as a starter library, offering comfort, surprise, and a little stretch along the way. mookse.substack.com/p/episode-11...
Episode 113: Starter Libraries: A Shelf Full of Promises
What does it take to build the perfect first shelf?
mookse.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The smart hosts and big readers @mookse.bsky.social and @bibliopaul.bsky.social were kind enough to have me on their podcast to discuss my subject of choice: starter libraries. What does that mean? I thought I knew until I started completing the task...
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In this week's bonus episode, Jonty sits down with writer and academic, Alexandra Harris, to chat all things #VirginiaWoolf.
You’ll hear about:
📖 Woolf’s appreciation for the “common reader"
🧠 the immersive power of #books
🗣️ how books keep conversations alive across time
🎧 Tune in now!
You’ll hear about:
📖 Woolf’s appreciation for the “common reader"
🧠 the immersive power of #books
🗣️ how books keep conversations alive across time
🎧 Tune in now!
August 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
In this week's bonus episode, Jonty sits down with writer and academic, Alexandra Harris, to chat all things #VirginiaWoolf.
You’ll hear about:
📖 Woolf’s appreciation for the “common reader"
🧠 the immersive power of #books
🗣️ how books keep conversations alive across time
🎧 Tune in now!
You’ll hear about:
📖 Woolf’s appreciation for the “common reader"
🧠 the immersive power of #books
🗣️ how books keep conversations alive across time
🎧 Tune in now!
