Book Post

For @BookPostUSA I wrote about under-appreciated master of the absurd, grotesque + surreal, Cuba's Virgilio Piñera, his brilliant short fictions + tragic end as a non-person under Castro. #flashfiction #absurdism #stories open.substack.com/pub/books/p/re…

New on Book Post → Barry Yourgrau (@barryyourgrau) on Virgilio Piñera, the “poet, novelist, insatiably polemical critic, literary provocateur, and seminal playwright whose work blasted modernism into Cuba’s stultified theater.” books.substack.com/p/review-barry…

I wrote for @BookPostUSA about Penguin's Poets in Translation series, which I love, beginning with the worst Homer translation, that of William Morris ("Tell me, O Muse, of the Shifty") books.substack.com/p/diary-michae…

Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Poet" ("Der Dichter", Edward Snow translation)

"Merriam-Webster and Britannica argue that OpenAI’s ChatGPT ‘cannibalized’ their web traffic" independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

And don't miss his recent Book Post piece here: books.substack.com/p/review-david…

David Alff's "masterful" and "fascinating" The Northeast Corridor is now out in paperback from @UChicagoPress! bookshop.org/p/books/the-no…

Check out the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/ghosts…

Laurie Hertzel on the formation of her reading life, now on Book Post! This post is adapted from her new book, "Ghosts of Fourth Street" coming later this month from the University of Minnesota Press. books.substack.com/p/diary-laurie…

My Grammarly opt out of Wednesday receives its reply (✍🏼)

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent. wired.com/story/grammarl…

@robertsietsema Ate nervously at the counter waiting to interview for my first job at @fsgbooks, 19 Union Sq W, 1985 (✍🏼)

Anybody remember Coffee Shop at Union Square, circa 2018?

Why are many young people being drawn back to print media and a reading life? With the influx of AI and interpersonal disconnection, how has reading, for some, been a source of curiosity and community? Read Ann Kjellberg on these questions and more, here: books.substack.com/p/notebook-whe…

Thank you so much to William Cooper of the Books and More podcast for a wonderful conversation with our editor, Ann! Listen now on Spotify or Apply Podcasts. And visit our Substack to read the article Ann mentions—Notebook: Where the Readers Are. #Books #Reading

"It is the drama of the tropics, and of your native place, what belongs to you and you to it. A flawed thing may be more full of life than a perfect thing." - Nancy Lemann, "The Ritz on the Bayou"

“An intellectual nucleus for Miami” // @BooksandBooks ft.com/content/184ce6…

Always the best Klimt:

📸 One of our Book Post Readers at AWP. Thanks for a great weekend, @awpwriter!

@AnakanaSchofiel Humble bows 🙏🏼

“Can progressives make progress?” asks David Alff. In his latest Book Post review, Alff looks at 3 books, reflecting on abundance liberalism—its underpinnings and its failings. books.substack.com/p/review-david…