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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I checked my reality by every so often suggesting that an inviter try asking John Updike or Jonathan Lethem. The response never varied: 'I wouldn’t want to bother him!'" harpers.org/archive/2016...

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Ex Post, by Annie Dillard

The life of a woman of letters

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We will be exhibiting at Word Vancouver on September 19! Stop by to chat with our team, learn more about the magazine, and pick up a copy of EVENT in person. We're looking forward to spending the day with Vancouver's literary community. Come say hello if you're there!

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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Mrs Ramsay in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse: “All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself”🔥 🔥 🔥

Mrs Ramsay thought bubble in To The lighthouse Woolf

now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expan-sive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others. Al-

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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"The Greats" by @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social, from the new issue of @eventmags.bsky.social. If you aren't reading Event these days, you're missing out! So many gems every issue.

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

also 10/10 migraine yesterday was almost healed by this. after he kayaks out to the puddingstone he lovingly SCRUBS IT with a bristle brush

I Kayaked to a Giant Puddingstone
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Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Looking for summer reading ideas? For this month’s newsletter, I suggest Masashi Matsuie’s THE SUMMER HOUSE, trans. Margaret Mitsutani; Lisa Fishman’s WRITE BACK NOW!; and Lana Lin’s THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM. 📚💙 You can read it here: www.marisagrizenko.com/campaigns/vi...

Three books arranged near illustrated copies of their covers: The Summer House, Write Back Now!, and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam.

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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Next week, Anakana Schofield's Canadian readers can finally get a borrower's card for her Library of Brothel (pub Knopf Canada)... her newest novel, which I've just reviewed for The British Columbia Review. thebcreview.ca/2026/05/22/2... Relevant and Smart, Questiony and Funny

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Marcie McCauley reviews Library of Brothel, by Anakana Schofield

Marcie McCauley reviews Library of Brothel, by Anakana Schofield (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2026) $35.00 / 9780735273245

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Matthew Rettino @matthewrettino.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Montreal writers! I’m teaching a weird fiction writing workshop on July 14 at Phoenix Books, NDG. Spread the news! Registration is $25 and you can sign up here: forms.gle/JxqzfksdANkX...

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

VANCOUVER SATURDAY 3pm IS MY LAUNCH AT WESTERN FRONT FOR LIBRARY OF BROTHEL. I am competing with World Cup, but hey ho we are FREE & HOSPITABLE at the Library! You won't find Giraffe or Scrabble Woman at the WC. Henry George would be appalled at the naked greed but Fit Hippos would rejoice & frolic

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Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Naimon meets Robertson--I could not be more excited

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I wrote about Harald Voetmann, Ana Paula Maia, and Green Arrow comics. open.substack.com/pub/hotdogco...

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Awake on Earth

Awake by Harald Voetmann, On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia, Green Arrow by Mike Grell

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Lee from the Internet @theinternetslee.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Everyone is into weird rooms these days. What about some weird rooms with some weird statues? You should read Piranesi

Book jacket for Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Fantastic review for Library of Brothel here "...buoyed by its love of language and the richness of our world..." What a blast to see readers inside the library, after spending so many years building it. Thank you so much @marisagrizenko.bsky.social for your words reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

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Loan Ranger | A review of “Library of Brothel” by Anakana Schofield | Literary Review of Canada

Marisa Grizenko reviews “Library of Brothel,” a funny yet passionate book on the right to meaningful work by Anakana Schofield.

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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Of all the different kinds of signals you can send out, unconscious ones are probably the most effective. - Gavin Lambert, The Goodby People, 1971 & 2022 #SundaySentence 📚

Cover of "The Goodby People" by Gavin Lambert, with an illustration of a large yellow-pink sun setting among orange clouds and flying gulls. McNally Editions, 2022.

Cover of The Goodby People, Simon & Schuster 1971 edition, with an illustration of figures on a yellow and green beach with an orange sun on a bright blue sky above them.

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Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"... the novel need not be permanently or definitively confined by its relationship with capital. I think that poetry can free the novel as it evades the algorithm." 🙌

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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Look Western Front have made a fabulous invite to my June 13th Vancouver launch. Reserve your spot! It's free. Everyone is welcome. Books will for sale & signed! So thrilled to launch the novel in this incredible building and ARTIST RUN CENTRE @pfbvan.bsky.social westernfront.ca/events/libra...

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WESTERN FRONT – Library of Brothel

Western Front is a non-profit multidisciplinary artist-run centre located in Vancouver.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

You ever finish a book and think: hell yeah

Hand holding Joy Williams’ novel The Quick & The Dead

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Murphy's end ("Murphy")

famous final fate of the eponymous hero

Some hours later Cooper took the packet of
ash from his pocket, where carlier in the evening
he had put it for greater security, and threw
it angrily
at a man who had given him great
offence. It bounced, burst, off the wall on to
the floor, where at once it became the object
of much dribbling, passing, trapping, shooting,
punching, heading and even some recognition
from the gentleman's code. By closing time
the body: mind and soul of Murphy
were freely
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distributed over the floor of the saloon; and
before another dayspring greyened the earth
had been swept away with the sand, the beer,
the butts, the glass, the matches, the spits,
the vomit.

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Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Once again, I fought the urge to only talk about Caro’s LBJ bio in my newsletter and instead recommended three other worthy books: Stephanie Wambugu’s LONELY CROWDS, Neige Sinno’s SAD TIGER, trans. Natasha Lehrer, and Lorrie Moore’s ANAGRAMS 💙📚 www.marisagrizenko.com/campaigns/vi...

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Plain Pleasures: Monkeys with Spiff

Plain Pleasures

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Plain Pleasures: Monkeys with Spiff

Plain Pleasures

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 16/02/2026

Legend. RIP — Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

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Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies

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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Mary Ruefle

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again

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Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

In this month’s newsletter, after bragging about eating a great dessert, I recommend Barbara Comyns’ WHO WAS CHANGED AND WHO WAS DEAD; Magda Szabó’s ABIGAIL, trans. Len Rix; and Halldór Laxness’ UNDER THE GLACIER, trans. Magnus Magnusson. 📚💙 Read it here: www.marisagrizenko.com/campaigns/vi...

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Plain Pleasures: Cosmic Communion

Plain Pleasures

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Plain Pleasures: Cosmic Communion

Plain Pleasures

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Ashton Politanoff @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Dad Had a Bad Day arrives 5/19/26 right before Roland Garros! Here is the cover and a link for more info: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/dad-...

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spooky biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

can’t recall if we do #fridayreads on here but I loved reading Michael Hofmann’s translation of Markus Werner’s THE FROG IN THE THROAT and I’m looking forward to finishing John Keene’s COUNTERNARRATIVES so I can immediately read it again

Two novels side by side-Markus Werner’s THE FROG IN THE THROAT, which depicts a somewhat idyllic study of trees against blue sky and a sun (by Felix Vallotton) and John Keene’s COUNTERNARRATIVES, which depicts shows a strange, almost primitivist style figure in yellow and white against a black background (by Ike Morgan)

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Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"I am still struggling to say why Jane Bowles had such a profound effect on me...Certainly it was encountering a book so glittering, so original, so profound, so witty, so charming, so contemporary, and so old, in which every sentence read as if it had been translated from some unknown tongue."

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the thought of the thing @thoughtofthething.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I wrote about some of the best books I've read in the heat of this summer, including works by António Lobo Antunes, Lisa Tuttle, Alexis Wright, Jacqueline Harpman, Irene Solá, Yoko Tawada, and Marcia Douglas. thethoughtofthething.substack.com/p/summer-rea...

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Summer Reading

"Iʼll keep after summer/until Iʼve forestalled his pretexts and lies,/Iʼll keep after him/and heʼll keep after me—/summer and a man/telling each other lies." —Najwan Darwish

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Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Looking for summer reading recommendations? May I suggest Adam Ehrlich Sachs’ THE ORGANS OF SENSE, John Berger’s BENTO’S SKETCHBOOK, and Seichō Matsumoto’s POINT ZERO, translated by @louisehk.bsky.social? You can read this month’s newsletter here: www.marisagrizenko.com/campaigns/vi...

Three books next to illustrations of their covers. The Organs of Sense features an older man wearing a dark robe and head covering; his eyes, cut out in the shape of stars, hover in front of him; the background is a vivid Kelly green. Bento’s Sketchbook depicts an open book (drawn roughly and coloured in black) with a blue square featuring an eye at its centre. Point Zero’s cover displays a photograph of the outside of a room with lit lanterns; our view is obscured by a wood-slatted curtain.

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Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

In this month’s newsletter, I wrote about Marie-Helene Bertino’s BEAUTYLAND, Markus Werner’s THE FROG IN THE THROAT, trans. Michael Hofmann, and Thuận’s ELEVATOR IN SÀI GÒN, trans. Nguyễn An Lý. I also wrote about a dog named Panda. You can read it here: www.marisagrizenko.com/campaigns/vi...

Three books, three illustrated reproductions, all arranged in a grid. The cover of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino depicts a beam of light, in purple and blue, emanating from a small, bright dot (presumably a planet). The Frog in the Throat's cover shows a night's sky, with pink clouds approaching a yellow moon; dark trees occupy the foreground. The cover for Elevator in Sài Gòn shows five images in irregular shapes (roses and a woman with hands over her eyes) on a white background.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Altogether I feel like Katherine Mansfield's fly after it was drowned the sixth time or was it the seventh?

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Lisa Robertson

Say I’m a beautiful animal who has mastered laziness

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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

spiritually buoyed by this convo btwn David Velasco— who you may recall got fired by Artforum for an open letter in support of 🇵🇸—& Sarah Schulman “Solidarity is the essential human process of recognizing that other people are real & their experiences matter” www.bookforum.com/print/3104/c...

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Come Together

A conversation with Sarah Schulman about solidarity and a life spent writing and fighting – David Velasco

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Apparently May is short story month?!?! In which case, May we recommend . . .

A grid of nine books, collections of short fiction, all from Dorothy save one. Top row: Sabrina Orah Mark's WILD MILK; Jen George's THE BABYSITTER AT REST, Danielle Dutton's PRAIRIE, DRESSES, ART, OTHER (from Coffee House Press). Second row: Suzanne Scanlon's PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN; Giada Scodellaro's SOME OF THEM WILL CARRY ME; Joanna Walsh's VERTIGO. Bottom row: Amina Cain's CREATURE; THE COLLECTED STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON; Cristina Rivera Garza's NEW AND SELECTED STORIES (trans by Sarah Booker et al).

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