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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I wrote about Stephen Rodefer’s Four Lectures for @bookforum.bsky.social, just reissued by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. I’ve been waiting 20 years for this book
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Collage Education
Braving the cacophony of poet Stephen Rodefer – Michael Robbins
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Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A stellar review of SAD TIGER in the Spring issue of @bookforum.bsky.social: "Sinno refuses to be hamstrung by genre, choosing a balletic approach, as if only a choreographed dance around her subject, again and again, will properly encapsulate its blast radius." www.bookforum.com/print/3104/b...
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Blight of My Life
Neige Sinno’s memoir of child sexual abuse – Elias Altman
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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Elias Altman's thoughtful and beautiful writing on SAD TIGER in @bookforum.bsky.social is a gift to us all. "the mark of a fierce mind for whom getting better is far less interesting than getting real." www.bookforum.com/print/3104/b...
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Blight of My Life
Neige Sinno’s memoir of child sexual abuse – Elias Altman
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For @bookforum.bsky.social, I wrote about “Portraits in Life and Death,” Peter Hujar’s 1975 photography collection depicting the mostly gay artists and intellectuals of New York’s downtown on the cusp of the AIDS crisis. www.bookforum.com/print/3104/t...
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A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
He’s reminding me to resubscribe to @bookforum.bsky.social now that I got my last print issue on the way in. He’s very alarmed about it!
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In the new issue of @bookforum.bsky.social , Kay Gabriel and Patrick DeDauw review our three-volume translation of Peter Weiss's magnum opus, "The Aesthetics of Resistance," and comment on how necessary it is in this political moment. buff.ly/7pgfEAH
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Front Lines
Peter Weiss’s literature of revolt – Kay Gabriel and Patrick DeDauw
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Spring issue is here! David Velasco interviews @sarahmschulman.bsky.social, essays & reviews by Lidija Haas, @moiradonegan.bsky.social, @hujane.bsky.social, Audrey Wollen, Harmony Holiday, @charoshane.bsky.social, @sashafrerejones.bsky.social, Hannah Black, and more. bookforum.com/print/3104
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Spring issue is here! David Velasco interviews @sarahmschulman.bsky.social, essays & reviews by Lidija Haas, @moiradonegan.bsky.social, @hujane.bsky.social, Audrey Wollen, Harmony Holiday, @charoshane.bsky.social, @sashafrerejones.bsky.social, Hannah Black, and more. bookforum.com/print/3104
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jane hu @hujane.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
i reviewed the new katie kitamura for @bookforum.bsky.social (it broke my brain): www.bookforum.com/print/3104/b...
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Between the Acts
Katie Kitamura closes her trilogy with a novel about theater – Jane Hu
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"The moment is more ludicrous than lubricious; Lynn notes that Miss Maxfeld, in order to smooch the girl, has to 'lift me up so that the heels of my Village Cobbler shoes rose off the floor.'" In our winter issue, Melissa Anderson reviews Jane DeLynn's IN THRALL: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/s...
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Sweet Days of Discipline
Jane DeLynn’s novel of a student’s sexual awakening – Melissa Anderson
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"The real crime, Boullosa seems to argue, is not the mere act of stealing, but how theft becomes enshrined into law and then retroactively justified." Read @rachelmonroe.bsky.social on @carmenboullosa.bsky.social's TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT (@deepvellum.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
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Texas Excess
Carmen Boullosa upends the Lone Star State’s mythology – Rachel Monroe
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The WINTER ISSUE is here! With Audrey Wollen on Joy Williams, Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Ágota Kristóf, Hermione Hoby on divorce narratives, Andrew Chan on Joe Brainard's letters, and so much more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3103
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"It is clear today—as perhaps it was not then—that the issue is not awareness. Ours is a world that does not intuit others’ humanity. And ours is a world that does." Mary Turfah reads Isabella Hammad's RECOGNIZING THE STRANGER: ON PALESTINE AND NARRATIVE www.bookforum.com/print/3103/i...
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I to I
Recognition and alienation in the work of Isabella Hammad – Mary Turfah
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A. S. Hamrah @hamrahrama.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
My piece on David Lynch for Bookforum in 2016, “The Interpretation of Screams,” link in comments —
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(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In the latest issue of Bookforum, @geneseymour.bsky.social has a really nice review of IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS. The book is available from Amazon and Abebooks in the US, and the publisher, Wolke Verlag, ships worldwide via DHL. www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
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Tinker Taylor
How a progressive jazz legend reconfigured the way we experience music – Gene Seymour
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
'Imagine the violence of a world whose fix for genocide—which one is funding—is dissociation... Instead, if we are to stay here, “to remain human at this juncture is to remain in agony.”' Mary Turfah on Isabella Hammad's Recognizing the Stranger www.bookforum.com/print/3103/i...
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I to I
Recognition and alienation in the work of Isabella Hammad – Mary Turfah
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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"But even if these novels are not quite like each other—and not quite like themselves—they are not quite like anything else, either." Becca Rothfeld on Antonio Di Benedetto in @bookforum.bsky.social. The Suicides is now out in @eallen.bsky.social's translation. www.bookforum.com/print/3103/n...
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Nowhere Fast
Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation” – Becca Rothfeld
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Her puns pummel the reader, multiplying meanings; lines possess double (or more) of their sense, no need (no room!) to read between them." Read @jenniferkrasinski.bsky.social on Elfriede Jelinek's THE CHILDREN OF THE DEAD (@yalepress.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/m...
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My Brilliant Fiend
Elfriede Jelinek’s screwball zombie epic – Jennifer Krasinski
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO "becomes an argument against reparations, a treatise on the impossibility of repair through monetization or monumentalization of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities." Harmony Holiday reads @brandonshimoda.bsky.social's new book: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
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The Secret History
An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans – Harmony Holiday
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"Even these characters’ worst crimes and cruelties are omissions rather than commissions. Di Benedetto’s narrators cannot take hold of anything, even their own callousness." Becca Rothfeld considers Antonio di Benedetto’s "Trilogy of Expectation": www.bookforum.com/print/3103/n...
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Nowhere Fast
Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation” – Becca Rothfeld
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"Brainard’s letters read like a natural extension of his creative ethos; regardless of what genre or mode he was working in, he always seemed to be addressing his audience as though it were his own tightknit inner circle." Read Andrew Chan on Joe Brainard: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/c...
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Come as You Are
Remembering Joe Brainard in letters to friends, lovers, and fans – Andrew Chan
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"We as a species must grow more familiar with the basic concept of limits, hard stops, final goodbyes; our world has them, as do our words." Audrey Wollen reads Joy Williams (@tinhouse.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
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The Azrael World
Joy Williams’s stories of angels, demons, and death – Audrey Wollen
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"What puzzles me is that divorce has acquired increasing literary significance to the very degree that marriage has forfeited social meaning." Read Hermione Hoby on divorce narratives: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/r...
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Reader, I Divorced Him
Narratives of marriage and its dissolution – Hermione Hoby
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Who is 'we'? Am I you? Like anyone forced to leave family, country, and language behind, the repatriated Kristóf—one of the postwar greats of European literature—would have rather stayed at home." Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Ágota Kristóf: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/y...
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You Can’t Go Home Again
Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile – Jessi Jezewska Stevens
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Bookforum Magazine @bookforum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The WINTER ISSUE is here! With Audrey Wollen on Joy Williams, Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Ágota Kristóf, Hermione Hoby on divorce narratives, Andrew Chan on Joe Brainard's letters, and so much more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3103
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A brilliant review @bookforum.bsky.social for Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams!✨ www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"[LOVE, JOE] functions as a guidebook on how to be lovable, a lesson in the importance of withholding judgment, being abidingly present, and seeing one’s friends—minutely, fondly, unblinkingly—for all that they are." via @bookforum.bsky.social. shorturl.at/TqNbp @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Come as You Are
Remembering Joe Brainard in letters to friends, lovers, and fans – Andrew Chan
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