Robert Polito

Robert Polito - “The Poetry of Fact” - w. Tess Taylor, Tom Sleigh, Brian Turner, & Camille Dungy triquarterly.org/craft-essays/r…

out today from Library of America 👇 5 brilliant novels in 1 vol. Thompson loved to write about small time crooks, grifters & losers whose schemes almost always end up in total disaster then there's the weirdness of the Getaway & Pop. 1280 - a perfect noir masterpiece 👍

A perfect mix of the good, the great, the underrated, the overrated, and the utterly fucking insane. JIM THOMPSON: FIVE NOIR NOVELS OF THE 1950s & 60s. Out today from Library of America.

Under the stewardship of Robert Polito. I think we can consider these the definitive texts.

Larissa Pham and Jacqueline LeKachman on Her New Novel, <em>Discipline</em>, and Finding Truth in Disaster publicseminar.org/2026/02/lariss… via @PublicSeminar

@whitecitycinema Congratulations!

It is here and it is a beautiful object

We mourn the loss of our dear friend Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026), a singular human with a singular genius for capturing humanity - and Film Forum’s most-premiered filmmaker 🕯️

Lawrence Joseph: New Poems thecommononline.org/joseph-lawrenc… via @commonmag

Honored to be on Time Magazine’s 50 Most Underappreciated Movies of the 21st Century compiled by the esteemed and serious film critic Stephanie Zacharek. #time #maskedandanonymous #stephaniezacharek

‘After the Flood’ by Robert Polito | Book Review - WSJ wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Happy pub day to @Fantomas2go, whose new book AFTER THE FLOOD: INSIDE BOB DYLAN'S MEMORY PALACE is available wherever books are sold! “Polito brings a scholastic zeal and care [to] Dylan... A feat of hyper-attuned reading and listening." (@MOJOmagazine) wwnorton.com/books/after-th…

Nice to see that Jim Thompson is finally getting the standalone treatment from @LibraryAmerica. "Books are expected to ship from the printer in late January." loa.org/books/five-noi…

“If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?”🎤 🎶 Dive into the most ambitious era of Bob Dylan’s artistry as Robert Polito, renowned poet and biographer, redefines the his legacy. 🎟️ 🎙️ bklynlib.org/4qrlDZz

“Kathy was an artist at heart, and this sensibility shaped everything she did,” artist and friend Robert Ransick wrote… “It enabled her to recognize talent early and to intuit exactly how to support artists at pivotal moments in their careers.” hyperallergic.com/beloved-curato…

“If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?”🎤 🎶 Dive into the most ambitious era of Bob Dylan’s artistry as Robert Polito, renowned poet and biographer, redefines the his legacy. 🎟️ 🎙️ bklynlib.org/4qrlDZz

I'll be talking about IMPASSE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF PROGRESS next Thursday, November 13, @TheNewSchool, with Jay Bernstein and Joel Towers. Register below. event.newschool.edu/arnholdforumro…

@ThraxMaximilian @MEProctor3 Coming this spring - loa.org/news-and-views…

@MEProctor3 Not sure. His biographer (Robert Polito) has edited several noir collections for LoA but nothing that focuses exclusively on Thompson

Good title for a Thompson omnibus. Published in 1986, almost ten years after his death and several before his reemergence as one of America’s best postwar writers, regardless of genre

“We’re going for some dark, dark time. People being arrested because of the way they look? And they don’t have to be charged? They can’t see any lawyers? I’m afraid it’s going to be like [prewar] Germany in that it’s a factor that is spoiling that will spread, and spread…”

“Deportee,” from Woody's Home Tape, Brooklyn 1951-1952 — “Is this the best system to grow some good fruit?” youtu.be/C6BFgEJw94E?si… via @YouTube

@MEProctor3 @ThraxMaximilian Coming from LoA - on March 3, 2026: amazon.com/Jim-Thompson-N…

@ThraxMaximilian When will there be a Library of America volume of Jim Thompson? I liked, it does not exist. Yet.

“How Republics Die analyzes these empires’ parallel lives to underscore the consistent methods used by autocrats to shift societies away from dissent, democracy, or independent thinking, toward a triumphalist narrative of the past….” hyperallergic.com/1037152/an-anc…