Simon Leser

Alex Clapp’s forthcoming book on the political economy of the global garbage trade, Waste Wars, is phenomenal. Forthcoming February 25. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexand…

Come out Friday, 8/23 to help us celebrate Issue 12! Readings by: @Tiddlebits, @mayadamayadamay, Emma Lloyd, Julieta Vittore, and @nsglastonbury for @kiracecilia_

One of the best pieces of criticism I've read this year, particularly for its subtheme of marketing-driven moralizing discourse on the 'low-effort' end of the litgame spectrum. thedriftmag.com/time-and-time-…

What motivates the seemingly endless quest to translate Proust? @Tiddlebits on C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Lydia Davis, Benjamin Moser, and “the state of translation.” thedriftmag.com/time-and-time-…

“Taken as a whole, it may be that Louis’s oeuvre offers the narrative not so much of his life but of his ongoing efforts at understanding it.” Read @Tiddlebits on @edouard_louis’s brutal self-creation: bit.ly/3RJZ0yw

@danielukes No, I was only trying to stay positive

For @bookforum, I wrote about interpretation, not writing what you want to write, and Édouard Louis's latest, which I love bookforum.com/print/2903/a-f…

Happy pub day to Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras, translated from French by Simon Leser. Based on the true story of a young man named Fernand Iveton and set during the Algerian War, it won the Prix Goncourt for First Novel. versobooks.com/books/3806-tom…

Simon Leser (@Tiddlebits) has translated into English Joseph Andras' Goncourt-winning novel De nos frères blessés (2016) about the life of Fernand Iveton, the only pied noir executed for fighting in the FLN. Out with @VersoBooks this week: versobooks.com/books/3806-tom…

Very exciting to find this spirited review of my book today from Pankaj Mishra, in @newyorker. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

1. Some notes on influences on this essay, which has been in the works for several months. I profited from the work of @adam_tooze on the Eurocrisis and @zeithistoriker on neoliberalism, to which I try to add a political-historical angle. bit.ly/2L8yhxP

Jesus Christ, I think we might just have won a campaign.

Congratulations to Hope Campbell Gustafson, Bruna Dantas Lobato (@bdantaslobato), Stephen Epstein, Misha Hoekstra (@mishap13), Lucas Klein, Simon Leser (@Tiddlebits), Emma Lloyd, Ottilie Mulzet (@caringerel), Catherine Nelson, Julia Powers, and Lara Vergnaud (@laravergnaud)!

Oh, it's nothing... just a bit sad @GWCUAW voted to endorse a deal negotiated behind their backs and clearly designed to disempower them, that's all

History is a cycle in Turkey. When I was her age I interviewed the tortured kids and now it is my dear @CagilKasapoglu ‘s turn. With each new generation we keep hoping this pattern will be broken. Listen to these young people, maybe this time they will put an end to this cycle. twitter.com/cagilkasapoglu…

Reading Bill Clinton’s novel. Literally a page after a tense confrontation about a terrorist plot, the fictional president Will Winsom thinks this to himself.

Virginia Woolf wanted to "challenge preconceptions of image, to make other ways of seeing possible, and to break down simplistic divides" Ali Smith's v personal response to the @Tate_StIves/@PallantGallery/@FitzMuseum_UK exhibition inspired by Woolf - in today's @NewStatesman

@OsitaNwanevu Yes! but also: why did so many publications post the exact same bogus explanation when the audience score tumbled 50 points below the critics' on rottentomatoes? shoddy work