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A total pleasure to re-read and write about one of my very favorite novels, Robert Coover’s UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC. for the New York Times, recently reissued by @nyrbclassics. A captivating, prescient book! nytimes.com/2026/03/25/boo…

I profiled Richard Hell for @PoetryFound. poetryfoundation.org/articles/17720…

'When I was asked to name the contemporary writer whom I most admired, I used without hesitation to say — until he died in 2014 — Pierre Ryckmans, better known as Simon Leys.' Theodore Dalrymple I recommend this wonderful collection of essays by Simon Leys. He is rarely mentioned around here.

The audiobook app @librofm is partnering with four authors to raise money for @BincFoundation in a campaign designed “to help booksellers in Minnesota and beyond.” All sales from the proceeds of select audiobooks from Feb. 10 to Feb. 12 will go to Binc. ow.ly/ysJ550Y9tos

Rachel Donadio (@RachelDonadio) on the contradictions of Curzio Malaparte go.nybooks.com/4qjK8aO

we’re right here

“The coke factory represented for me, with overwhelming force, an embrace of darkness and shadows.” From "The Coke Factory" by Turner Brooks, published today on the Daily. buff.ly/upByQU4

“How many of us would have the presence of mind to act the same way—to recognize when it’s time to flee our country forever, without hesitating like Lot’s wife on her way out of Sodom?” —Adam Kirsch on Gabriele Tergit’s Effingers go.nybooks.com/3NS3Ywc

Apoorva Tadepalli’s essay in the Baffler on Incompleteness (my book of essays from NYRB), and, indeed, my writing life has an almost unexpected empathy for what I do. She quotes things by me that I’d forgotten, giving them a new habitation in her account. thebaffler.com/latest/everyth…

@newbikenadia You should check out Rezzori’s novels if you haven’t already.

@nyrbclassics random af. i was in chernivtsi last spring (my grandfather was born there)

Unnecessary fact of the day: The sister city of Gregor von Rezzori's hometown of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi) is Salt Lake City, Utah.

A different Leda and the swan poem by RM Rilke, translated by Geoffrey Lehmann. From Rilke: Fifty Poems (⁦@nyrbclassics⁩, 2025), a new translation of a bunch poems from New Poems, in form.

@Aksinia00447 oh dear

@nyrbclassics Went on vacation once with 2 books, both yours. Evan Connell’s The Diary of a Rapist, and von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite. My friends looked at my funny for a week and I didn’t know why

hardly!

“What do we pay the owner of the place where the treasures are buried? … Perhaps I will return my clay to the earth in exchange for the statue it will give me: we shall only be trading an image of man for an image of man.” —François-René de Chateaubriand from @nyrbclassics harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

remember when this site was fun?

@realMattKParker @nyrbclassics It’s so good. I wasn’t expecting the poetic, sensory-rich language. Lots of powerful, descriptive prose. “That carrion odor was his homeland, his ageless & living homeland, and now nothing stood between us any longer. We were brothers living in the ageless odor of the dead mare.”

@maxdaniellawton @nyrbclassics @NYRB_Imprints econtalk.org/translating-li…

Wanted to read something cold but nothing came to mind. Hours later, I had the sudden urge to pick this back up, having not even remotely recalled that I’d left off at a story called “Icicles”: “…and in the sky the ground floated like a street that’s been salted…”

“In France, whenever we build so much as a shack, we make a terrible fuss, with a multitude of machines, men, and noise. In Italy, they undertake immense things almost without stirring.” From the autobiography of François-René de Chateaubriand from @nyrbclassics. harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

what's a book that is exactly like The Long Ships in every way. what is a book that is as good as The Long Ships and will replicate the experience of reading it for the first time perfectly