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I wrote about “untranslatability,” sentences that are more fun to read aloud, and Backwardness, @gariellelutz’s memoir-in-miscellanea, for @Greg_Gerke’s Socrates on the Beach socratesonthebeach.com/review-of-gari…

“There is one thing I’m good at, and that’s looking at the sea.” —Marguerite Duras

Our author Kelly Krumrie interviewed by Sophie Golub, today in @thecreativeindp thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-…

@AleFrydman @billorcutt I’d be glad to buy one, if you’re not set on selling both together.

@billorcutt I have 2 tickets for Friday I can’t use anymore would love to get them to someone who can go 🙏

Friday night at Roulette has sold out and Saturday has just a handful of tickets left. Only a week away! Get tickets at roulette.org Painting by Paulette Razy-Faulkner.

@PersonalRecords @gariellelutz @Greg_Gerke Thanks! Lutz + Murnane, a pretty good reading day.

@beanstastefine @gariellelutz @Greg_Gerke Been rereading this one, was nice to revisit this review too

I wrote about “untranslatability,” sentences that are more fun to read aloud, and Backwardness, @gariellelutz’s memoir-in-miscellanea, for @Greg_Gerke’s Socrates on the Beach socratesonthebeach.com/review-of-gari…

PIANO. *plays the softest, most heartbreaking melody you ever heard in your life* TOM WAITS, leaning into microphone.

I wrote about the late, great Todd Snider. tinyurl.com/dvprxnp8

RIP David Bellos, Perec’s primary English translator and author of one of the great literary biographies, Perec A Life In Words, and one of the great film biographies, Tati: His Life and Art. his work in words has deeply affected my life. thank you forever 🖤

At a book fair in Spain before I go to Frankfurt and trying to explain where Minnesota is by using Bob Dylan as a reference and then trying to explain Deep Vellum, and people are like oh yes, Bob Dylan’s translator, Mircea Cărtărescu.

GHOSTED III is out today on @dragcityrecords 🕺👻 orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/ghosted-…

@miri_yam_ Molly McGhee’s Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind is about most of those things

@eleanoir @bartlebytaco (I taught a course on The Pillow Book and we read a lot of lists)

@eleanoir Joe Brainard's 'I Remember'; Georges Perec's list of everything he ate/drank in 1974 (among many other lists); @bartlebytaco's "About 1,000 Words on Preferences"; Li Shangyin's list-poems; Suzanne Buffam's 'A Pillow Book'

I'm writing about the Baraka poem "Black Art" and talking about it as a funny list. to contextualize this, I would like examples of other funny lists! help pls!

@MarkdeSilva1 have you read Geometric Regional Novel? Gert Jonke does this word spacing thing throughout.

that’s right: MFK Fisher

my new book is out today. look at it. there are roughly 30,000 words inside. that's nothing, an afternoon of your life. you need it for your health. buy like 12 copies, buy 12-25 copies. for your community. love, sebastian penguinrandomhouse.com/books/772204/f…

I think people read too fast--and it is rewarded, but it is not recommended. We should read as slowly as the author wrote the book. Marguerite Duras pointed this out long before. nytimes.com/1985/06/23/boo…

rest in peace Ariel Kalma, fellow traveler of the highest regions of sound 🖤

Reading my first Malamud… love these 50s guys. Every book is like “the second I saw her I knew I had to have her. You couldn’t believe the figure on her. But she had the depression. Spells so bad she’d crash the car if you didn’t keep an eye on her. And I had baseball to play.”

Wonderful video of Dylan covering Rick Nelson’s “Garden Party” for the first time ever in another wild Outlaw setlist last night youtu.be/YvDGGCyQwiI?si…