Samuel Rafael Barber

So grateful for a reader and interviewer like @JonRiccio, to my old stomping grounds at @sonorareview for providing the space for this conversation, and to @TCPBRD for midwifing the text into the world. I only bring up COINTELPRO once, so I'm on my best behavior.

One of the great accomplishments of this novel is how it elides just enough of the details a more conventional novel would labor over, leaving only the barely visible crystalline structures holding them together, so that the result is an elegant, fractal pattern.

FOR LK In this translation you will look in vain for a full-stop, Stops are there, but hard to find. Keep searching. Oh look, there is one! He must have taken breath. Time can stand still for the blink of a whale's eye. Then the whale goes down, spouting as it dives.

Krasznahorkai is, of course, awesome

i am the detective who is revealed to be the killer

It’s likely you’ve heard all about myself and my organization from a corporate media only too willing to enact the agenda of our oligarchic overlords. It’s time Humans for a Safer North American Tree Octopus Future set the record straight at MQR: sites.lsa.umich.edu/mixtape/2021/0…

Looking to place a few poems from my debut collection, Southwest Reconstruction (Noemi Press, out 12/1). Editors, let me know where to reach out. Thanks!

Pauline Kael has expressed some of the most ludicrous opinions I’ve ever come across in any genre of criticism (in particular with Kubrick). But I’d take a million wannabe Pauline Kaels over this influencer culture we’re stuck with

I've had thoughts on so-called AI since 2016 (when I wrote this) because I was aware of Effective Altruism and found their perspective on art/life itself equally grotesque & contemptible: folioliteraryjournal.com/samuel-rafael-…

🚨 LOS ANGELES 🚨 To celebrate the publication of DOUBLE BLACK DIAMOND, Mads and I are hosting an event for the sickos at Stories on 8/3. Featuring: @JustAboutGlad, @theashleyray, @nickgreergkcin, Amelia Gray and Molly Lambert. We’ll be selling the book for dirt cheap!

do you think Peter Thiel cried when he heard about Hulk Hogan

Submissions for WANTED [whatiwanted (dot) org] are now open exclusively to writers seeking their 1st publication

“Be it resolved that the highest aim of criticism is to complete the work of art by providing it with general social and historical significance.”—Ciarán Finlayson’s manifesto on the future of arts criticism, from this week’s summer missive 4columns.org/finlayson-ciar…

Sean Evans: so Tom, in the 17 years between Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, you reportedly slunk around Northern California, addicted to TV, sending crank letters to a local newspaper under the name "Wanda Tinasky"-- Thomas Pynchon (choking on NUCLEAR ASS hot sauce): holy fuck

did some more book design, this time in collaboration with author & illustrator mads gobbo. double--negative.com/002-double-bla…

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

did the design for my friend mike's book. it's inspired by keith shore's illustration, lorraine louie's design for vintage contemporaries paperbacks, susan kare's icons, andy warhol's jazz album covers, and nyc parking signs. more: double--negative.com/001-new-paltz-…

@joelhans @MoonCityPress Beyond thrilled for you Joel!

Well. It's still unreal to me—my DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION has WON the @MoonCityPress Short Fiction Award and is coming LATER THIS YEAR!!! 22 stories, 12 years of my writing life. Thank you to everyone who's read my work or followed along for a part of this time. Thank you.

This was fun: substack.com/home/post/p-15…

I'm starting a little press "La Barba Metafísica" – actual books with actual spines! These two (our first trade paperbacks) are out in June. Drop me a line if you're a bookseller or reviewer interested in learning more/supporting this venture. Distributed by @asterism_books

Hello! Good morning to literature-lovers worldwide! We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with the University of Rochester, and we welcome @open_letter as the newest member of the Deep Vellum family. More info available from @PublishersWkly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…