Already looking for Christmas presents? @thestrategist.com has done its Unusually Special Gifts for Under $50 and selected Rea Irvin's The Smythes!
Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).
Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Already looking for Christmas presents? @thestrategist.com has done its Unusually Special Gifts for Under $50 and selected Rea Irvin's The Smythes!
Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).
Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).
Chen Jiang Hong's Dragon Flower, translated from the French by Alyson Waters, has been named to the NYT/NYPL's "Best Illustrated Children's Books" list for 2025.
We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Chen Jiang Hong's Dragon Flower, translated from the French by Alyson Waters, has been named to the NYT/NYPL's "Best Illustrated Children's Books" list for 2025.
We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
Ira Sachs's Peter Hujar's Day, starring Ben Whishaw as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, is out in cinemas today. Congrats to all involved! and to Rosenkrantz, the author of PHD and also Talk, one of our favorites.
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Ira Sachs's Peter Hujar's Day, starring Ben Whishaw as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, is out in cinemas today. Congrats to all involved! and to Rosenkrantz, the author of PHD and also Talk, one of our favorites.
Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy has been translated into English for the first time.
On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century.
tinyurl.com/2kda9fzu
On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century.
tinyurl.com/2kda9fzu
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy has been translated into English for the first time.
On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century.
tinyurl.com/2kda9fzu
On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century.
tinyurl.com/2kda9fzu
Edward Mendelson & Francesca Wade will be discussing the writing, correcting, and reading of Mrs. Dalloway, first published 100 years ago (though the accurate text has only just come out from yours truly), TONIGHT 7pm at @bookculture.com (536 W. 112th, NYC)
See you in the Upper West Side.
See you in the Upper West Side.
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Edward Mendelson & Francesca Wade will be discussing the writing, correcting, and reading of Mrs. Dalloway, first published 100 years ago (though the accurate text has only just come out from yours truly), TONIGHT 7pm at @bookculture.com (536 W. 112th, NYC)
See you in the Upper West Side.
See you in the Upper West Side.
Diane DiMassa, mother of Hothead Paisan, is in Boston tonight (7pm) at Boston Figurative Arts Center (285 Washington St., Somerville).
The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage.
www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...
@bostoncomicarts.bsky.social
The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage.
www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...
@bostoncomicarts.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Diane DiMassa, mother of Hothead Paisan, is in Boston tonight (7pm) at Boston Figurative Arts Center (285 Washington St., Somerville).
The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage.
www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...
@bostoncomicarts.bsky.social
The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage.
www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...
@bostoncomicarts.bsky.social
Philadelphia,
Philly Comics Expo is tomorrow (10-6) in the Old Pine Community Center (410 Lombard St S).
NYR Comics is tabling and Diane DiMassa has an event ("Still Homicidal After All These Years") at 2:30 and will be signing at 4.
partnersandson.com/pages/philly...
Philly Comics Expo is tomorrow (10-6) in the Old Pine Community Center (410 Lombard St S).
NYR Comics is tabling and Diane DiMassa has an event ("Still Homicidal After All These Years") at 2:30 and will be signing at 4.
partnersandson.com/pages/philly...
October 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Philadelphia,
Philly Comics Expo is tomorrow (10-6) in the Old Pine Community Center (410 Lombard St S).
NYR Comics is tabling and Diane DiMassa has an event ("Still Homicidal After All These Years") at 2:30 and will be signing at 4.
partnersandson.com/pages/philly...
Philly Comics Expo is tomorrow (10-6) in the Old Pine Community Center (410 Lombard St S).
NYR Comics is tabling and Diane DiMassa has an event ("Still Homicidal After All These Years") at 2:30 and will be signing at 4.
partnersandson.com/pages/philly...
Diane DiMassa event in Hartford, CT at Real Art Ways TOMORROW (9/25; 6:30pm) speaking with @alexdueben.bsky.social about Hothead Paisan.
www.realartways.org/event/hothea...
www.realartways.org/event/hothea...
September 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Diane DiMassa event in Hartford, CT at Real Art Ways TOMORROW (9/25; 6:30pm) speaking with @alexdueben.bsky.social about Hothead Paisan.
www.realartways.org/event/hothea...
www.realartways.org/event/hothea...
Cullen Murhpy on how Mort Walker invented the language of comics.
This month, we are reissuing the Lexicon of Comicana ("which enjoyed an immediate vogue among the cartoonist set") and @fantagraphics.bsky.social: Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles.
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@airmail.news
This month, we are reissuing the Lexicon of Comicana ("which enjoyed an immediate vogue among the cartoonist set") and @fantagraphics.bsky.social: Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles.
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
@airmail.news
September 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Cullen Murhpy on how Mort Walker invented the language of comics.
This month, we are reissuing the Lexicon of Comicana ("which enjoyed an immediate vogue among the cartoonist set") and @fantagraphics.bsky.social: Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles.
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
@airmail.news
This month, we are reissuing the Lexicon of Comicana ("which enjoyed an immediate vogue among the cartoonist set") and @fantagraphics.bsky.social: Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles.
airmail.news/issues/2025-...
@airmail.news
Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.
September 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.
New releases this week—Mrs Dalloway as Woolf wanted it; late and great (the best?) Barbara Pym; and a work of genius manga from the 80s, Miss Ruki.
September 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New releases this week—Mrs Dalloway as Woolf wanted it; late and great (the best?) Barbara Pym; and a work of genius manga from the 80s, Miss Ruki.
The Hothead Paisan tour continues on Wednesday in Northampton, MA: Diane DiMassa and Andrea Lawlor at the Forbes Library (20 West Street). Begins at 6:30pm.
Thanks to Broadside Bookshop for organizing!
broadsidebooks.com/event/2025-0...
Thanks to Broadside Bookshop for organizing!
broadsidebooks.com/event/2025-0...
September 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The Hothead Paisan tour continues on Wednesday in Northampton, MA: Diane DiMassa and Andrea Lawlor at the Forbes Library (20 West Street). Begins at 6:30pm.
Thanks to Broadside Bookshop for organizing!
broadsidebooks.com/event/2025-0...
Thanks to Broadside Bookshop for organizing!
broadsidebooks.com/event/2025-0...
Great pre-pub review of Amit Chaudhuri's upcoming essay collection, Incompleteness.
"'The Origins of Dislike,' 'The Piazza and the Car Park,' 'Poetry and Polemic'...should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand market forces on literary life and culture."
@ala-booklist.bsky.social
"'The Origins of Dislike,' 'The Piazza and the Car Park,' 'Poetry and Polemic'...should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand market forces on literary life and culture."
@ala-booklist.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Great pre-pub review of Amit Chaudhuri's upcoming essay collection, Incompleteness.
"'The Origins of Dislike,' 'The Piazza and the Car Park,' 'Poetry and Polemic'...should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand market forces on literary life and culture."
@ala-booklist.bsky.social
"'The Origins of Dislike,' 'The Piazza and the Car Park,' 'Poetry and Polemic'...should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand market forces on literary life and culture."
@ala-booklist.bsky.social
Diane DiMassa and Kate Bornstein talk about Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist TOMORROW (Tues, 9/9; 6pm) at Bluestocking NYC (116 Suffolk St.).
See ya there.
See ya there.
September 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Diane DiMassa and Kate Bornstein talk about Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist TOMORROW (Tues, 9/9; 6pm) at Bluestocking NYC (116 Suffolk St.).
See ya there.
See ya there.
Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist is back. Available as of today: an omnibus edition so you can join Hothead in all her adventures and quests for justice (and have some fun too).
Plus—event next Tues (9/9; 6pm) with Diane DiMassa and Kate Bornstein at Bluestockings in NYC.
Plus—event next Tues (9/9; 6pm) with Diane DiMassa and Kate Bornstein at Bluestockings in NYC.
September 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist is back. Available as of today: an omnibus edition so you can join Hothead in all her adventures and quests for justice (and have some fun too).
Plus—event next Tues (9/9; 6pm) with Diane DiMassa and Kate Bornstein at Bluestockings in NYC.
Plus—event next Tues (9/9; 6pm) with Diane DiMassa and Kate Bornstein at Bluestockings in NYC.
Tonight at 7pm ET (US)—
A celebration and discussion of Michael McMillan, master comics maker, sculptor, and mountain climber.
Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, Austin English, McMillan at a virtual event hosted by NY Comics Symposium.
Register here: nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
A celebration and discussion of Michael McMillan, master comics maker, sculptor, and mountain climber.
Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, Austin English, McMillan at a virtual event hosted by NY Comics Symposium.
Register here: nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
September 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Tonight at 7pm ET (US)—
A celebration and discussion of Michael McMillan, master comics maker, sculptor, and mountain climber.
Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, Austin English, McMillan at a virtual event hosted by NY Comics Symposium.
Register here: nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
A celebration and discussion of Michael McMillan, master comics maker, sculptor, and mountain climber.
Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, Austin English, McMillan at a virtual event hosted by NY Comics Symposium.
Register here: nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
NY Comics Symposium on Tuesday is on the great Michael McMillan and the first collection of his work, Terminal Exposure.
McMillan will be joined by Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, and Austin English.
9/2 at 7pm live on Zoom. Email to register.
nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
McMillan will be joined by Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, and Austin English.
9/2 at 7pm live on Zoom. Email to register.
nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
August 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
NY Comics Symposium on Tuesday is on the great Michael McMillan and the first collection of his work, Terminal Exposure.
McMillan will be joined by Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, and Austin English.
9/2 at 7pm live on Zoom. Email to register.
nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
McMillan will be joined by Dan Nadel, Gary Panter, and Austin English.
9/2 at 7pm live on Zoom. Email to register.
nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/m...
A collection of uncanny often humorous short stories about the everyday and the supernatural in the provinces of a bygone Russia, Teffi's Other Worlds is one of the 30 books included in this weekend's Horror and the Supernatural Sale: www.nyrb.com/collections/...
August 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A collection of uncanny often humorous short stories about the everyday and the supernatural in the provinces of a bygone Russia, Teffi's Other Worlds is one of the 30 books included in this weekend's Horror and the Supernatural Sale: www.nyrb.com/collections/...
Tonight (7pm) at Unnameable Books (615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn) we launch Fumiko Takano's Miss Ruki. Translator Alexa Frank will be in conversation with editor Anika Banister. Dress warmly because the event will be held outside.
August 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Tonight (7pm) at Unnameable Books (615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn) we launch Fumiko Takano's Miss Ruki. Translator Alexa Frank will be in conversation with editor Anika Banister. Dress warmly because the event will be held outside.
Diane DiMassa and Hothead Paisan at Mass MoCA's R&D store at 5pm today.
Reservations are taken but there'll be room so if you are in western Mass, we suggest you go check it out.
Reservations are taken but there'll be room so if you are in western Mass, we suggest you go check it out.
August 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Diane DiMassa and Hothead Paisan at Mass MoCA's R&D store at 5pm today.
Reservations are taken but there'll be room so if you are in western Mass, we suggest you go check it out.
Reservations are taken but there'll be room so if you are in western Mass, we suggest you go check it out.
A selection from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Fifty Poems, translated by Geoffrey Lehmann and available this October: www.nyrb.com/products/fif...
August 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A selection from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Fifty Poems, translated by Geoffrey Lehmann and available this October: www.nyrb.com/products/fif...
Thursday we launch Fumiko Takano's Miss Ruki, the sweetest, funniest, and most minorly subversive manga we know. The event is at Unnameable Books with translator Alexa Frank and NYR Comics-editor Anika Banister. See you tomorrow!
August 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thursday we launch Fumiko Takano's Miss Ruki, the sweetest, funniest, and most minorly subversive manga we know. The event is at Unnameable Books with translator Alexa Frank and NYR Comics-editor Anika Banister. See you tomorrow!
Vladimir Sorokin event tonight with translator Max Lawton and Christian Lorentzen.
This Sorokin, no relation to the bunny killer, writes novels.
This Sorokin, no relation to the bunny killer, writes novels.
August 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Vladimir Sorokin event tonight with translator Max Lawton and Christian Lorentzen.
This Sorokin, no relation to the bunny killer, writes novels.
This Sorokin, no relation to the bunny killer, writes novels.
Will you be in northwestern Massachusetts on Thursday? It'll be a perfect day to visit @massmoca.bsky.social AND see Diane DiMassa at the bookstore at 5pm.
Reservations have reached their cap but it's an open event & we think worth a shot.
Reservations have reached their cap but it's an open event & we think worth a shot.
August 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Will you be in northwestern Massachusetts on Thursday? It'll be a perfect day to visit @massmoca.bsky.social AND see Diane DiMassa at the bookstore at 5pm.
Reservations have reached their cap but it's an open event & we think worth a shot.
Reservations have reached their cap but it's an open event & we think worth a shot.
Max Lawton and Christian Lorentzen talk about Vladimir Sorokin and The Sugar Kremlin (@deepvellum.bsky.social) tomorrow at Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC (1133 Broadway). Event begins at 6pm.
August 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Max Lawton and Christian Lorentzen talk about Vladimir Sorokin and The Sugar Kremlin (@deepvellum.bsky.social) tomorrow at Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC (1133 Broadway). Event begins at 6pm.