Daniel Levin Becker

Imagination et créativité pour appréhender les villes d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Rejoignez-nous demain pour célébrer la réécriture du chef-d'œuvre de Calvino par le collectif d'écrivains auquel il appartenait. @III_SNFPHI @CGCParisCenter @CityDiploLab ideasimagination.columbia.edu/events/plongee…

Tour starts tonight at @CityLightsBooks. Hit it.

Mark your calendars for the Like a Sky Inside book tour! We are thrilled to share this "singularly beautiful book" (@mervatim) next month: @CityLightsBooks, @ThirdPlaceBooks, @lostcitybooks, @albertinebooks, @PENworldvoices For more: fernfernfern.com/skyinside @JakutaAlika @dlb

Will be on this panel tomorrow talking Oulipo and cities and Calvino and mangroves. The usual.

Calling all Fronds of Fern Books! Now that LIKE A SKY INSIDE has debuted on the literary scene, we want to see it out in the wild. Send us your photos, no hand modeling experience required! For more: fernfernfern.com/skyinside @JakutaAlika @dlb

Happy publication day to this elegant, insightful, endlessly beguiling memoir-essay-caper, an honor to translate and an expansive joy to revisit again and again. Can't wait for you to read it.

9/ In an excerpt from her new book "Like a Sky Inside," Jakuta Alikavazovic tells the story of a young woman's night alone at the Louvre, and dares to ask: “And you, how would you go about stealing the Mona Lisa?” thedial.world/issue-14/ficti…

The Final Countdown, but make it life-affirming

March 28th, I will chat about Raymond Queneau and The Skin of Dreams, recently published by @nyrbclassics, with the always insightful @dlb. There will also be a few in-person events for this translation, but this will be the one online event. Join us! nyrb.com/blogs/events/r…

Museum Visits presents the daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard. In this Q&A, we with talk with translator Daniel Levin Becker @dlb about the process of translation, the magic of Chevillard’s style, and more. i.mtr.cool/dwiiwdjcyt

@KalenIwamoto @derekbeaulieu @christianbok @jeanboitedition !!

@derekbeaulieu @christianbok @dlb @jeanboitedition Thank, Derek, this is great! I am looking forward to hanging out with Christian today :)) wish you were here, too.

Just booked my train to Paris Friday -Sunday. Who's in town??

Hello fronds! @JakutaAlika's LIKE A SKY INSIDE (3/26, translated by @dlb) is officially available for preorder now. Discover what @_catherinelacey calls "a perfect sculpture of pure thought." fernfernfern.com/skyinside

@spencerruchti @fernbooks [squinting to make sure the asterisks aren't quotation marks] Phew!

Laurent Mauvignier and @dlb for THE BIRTHDAY PARTY 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Love the bold, risk-taking literature @USRofC champions from independent presses. Congratulations to all the longlisted authors and translators!

Éric Chevillard ruminates on a visit to see Hegel's cap. Read on Book Post: books.substack.com/p/diary-eric-c…

By way of illustration:

Out today in the U.S. from @yalepress: MUSEUM VISITS, a litany of succinct observational bafflements from the inimitable Éric Chevillard. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030025…

@J_Zuckerman @RyanCookpoetry No personal interactions, to my eternal regret, but translating him was not unlike how I imagine it felt to take this photo.

"I recommend [The Birthday Party] to anyone who likes their books long, meandering, and very stressful."