Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival has its headliners! Join Hanif Abdurraqib, Jamila Woods, and so many other great artists this July 10th-12th in beautiful Dallas. Tickets available now: www.deepvellum.org/festival 15420
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 05/05/2026New from the Dalkey Archive Press Scholarly Series — THE GINGER MAN LETTERS, a collection of JP Donleavy’s correspondence with the Trinity College friends who inspired his controversial bestselling novel, edited by Bill Dunn! 171
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 05/05/2026New from Dalkey Archive Press — CHERNOBYL PRAYER, by Svetlana Alexievich, a definitive new translation by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait of the best-selling book ever published by Dalkey! 151
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 05/05/2026New from Deep Vellum — PINK TONGUE OUT, BLIND CAT, a new poetry collection by Colombian poet María Paz Guerrero, translated by National Book Award Winner Robin Myers! Modern lyric with the cadence of salsa music. 172
Reposted by jon repettiCommunity of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Fargo Nissim Tbakhi’s TERROR COUNTER “acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.” Read poetry from @deepvellum.bsky.social for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth! store.deepvellum.org/products/ter...store.deepvellum.orgTERROR COUNTERBy Fargo Nissim Tbakhi TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of… 032
Reposted by jon repettiIto Romo @itoromo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @deepvellumbooks.bsky.socialpublishersweekly.comHow ‘Filth Eaters’ by Ito Romo Got MadeAn inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel. 172
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The inaugural Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival is coming to Dallas July 10th-12th, with stages and venues throughout the Deep Ellum neighborhood. Full press release in comments! 182
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026From one of Colombia’s most innovative modern poets, María Paz Guerrero’s collection PINK TONGUE OUT, BLIND CAT is filled with sinuous verses on the human experience told in a cadence akin to salsa music. Translated by the incomparable Robin Myers! 053
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/03/2026We are thrilled to announce that “North Sun; Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther” by Ethan Rutherford has won the 2026 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters! 1111
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 18/03/20265.18.26 — the FILTH EATERS are coming. 152
Reposted by jon repettiDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 13/03/2026This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comBuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AIThree years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going. 822918860
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 12/03/2026it’s been said many times, but New York’s hottest club really is the McNally Jackson Seaport location 040
Reposted by jon repettiDalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The latest edition of The Tunnel Reader Newsletter, featuring the one and only John Darnielle of @themountaingoats@bsky.social, is in your inbox now! 0104
Reposted by jon repettiDalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Coming to your inboxes this Wednesday, a very special edition of THE TUNNEL NEWSLETTER featuring John Darnielle of @themountaingoats.bsky.social — Sign-up here: signup.e2ma.net/signup/2012948/1918054 0697
Reposted by jon repettiDalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The great Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes GCSE has passed away at the age of 83. Antunes died in Lisbon, the city where he was born, the site of his psychiatric practice, and the setting for many of his 30+ works. Portugal has declared a national day of mourning. 0183
Reposted by jon repettiDalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Svetislav Basara, hailed as Serbia’s most influential living writer, explores sanity and insanity, truth and untruth in this unforgettable deconstruction of the Soviet psyche. Pre-order today: dalkeyarchive.store/products/ris... 072
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Pound-for-pound the greatest living writer in Portuguese. Celebrate the Formentor today and place your bets on the Nobel tomorrow! 040
Reposted by jon repettiDr. Curiosity @drcuriosity.bsky.social · 20/02/2026"Watching him brandish his chatroom Darwinism was like watching a grizzly bear attempt to eat a plate of grapes with chopsticks." 1283
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Fair-minded review of a serious work! The Beginnings is a vast experiment in phenomenological writing, structured like life itself, if we’re lucky — 85% murky opacity (though always artfully wrought), 15% lyrical illumination. May all experimental literature fare so well in the trades! 050
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Rodrigo Hasbún and Lily Meyer are going on tour! Catch them in Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, NYC, or Pittsburg — and don’t forget to order your copy of THE INVISIBLE YEARS (out 2.24.26)! 031
Reposted by jon repettiDalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Pour yourself a decaf coffee (or something stronger) and listen to Michael Silverblatt chat about the legacy of Oulipo some of its key members — Jacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier. www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...kcrw.comAn Oulipo Mini-Anthology | KCRWJacques Roubaud, Ian Monk, Daniel Levin Becker, Marcel Bénabou, Anne F. Garréta and Hervé Le Tellier When members of the Oulipo convened in New York, Bookworm was there to record this… 2176
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/02/2026DIARY OF AN INVASION, by journalist and novelist Andrey Kurkov (author of GREY BEES), will soon be available in paperback -- featuring a new introduction from Christopher Miller, chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times! 172
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 18/02/2026a 1000-year vampire epic that (almost) fits in your back pocket! so excited for this one to get out into the world on 5/19 050
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 18/02/2026some personal news. this week I’m starting work at the greatest indie press in America. I still cannot believe it’s my job now to tell you all about these incredible books 7424
Reposted by jon repettiDalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Michael Silverblatt was a great reader, a great talker, and a great champion of so many Dalkey Archive Press authors. We’ll be posting some of our favorite interviews all week. Tonight, listen to his conversation with William H. Gass about “The Tunnel”: www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...kcrw.comWilliam H. Gass: The Tunnel | KCRWAuthor William H. Gass discusses the evolution and style of his thirty-years-in-the-making new novel, finally published this month. 0185
Reposted by jon repettiLee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Finished reading this & (to state the obvious) it's highly recommended. The discussion of theme is especially valuable. I also v. much enjoy the image of high school English as the separated fraternal twin of university literary studies. 2137
Reposted by jon repettiDeep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026THE BEGINNINGS by Antonio Moresco, translated by Max Lawton is available for preorder! You can preorder THE BEGINNINGS, or the whole trilogy at store.deepvellum.org. THE BEGINNINGS will be published on March 24, 2026. 0112
Reposted by jon repettigaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 12/02/2026i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)theverge.comICE is pushing Minneapolis undergroundScenes from a city under siege 5521166
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I wrote about Tatiana Tibuleac’s “The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes,” an absolutely astounding little novel that’s finally been translated into English after selling out in 17 other languages, for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social clereviewofbooks.com/tatiana-tibu...clereviewofbooks.comFingering His Wounds: On Tatiana Tibuleac’s "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" - Cleveland Review of BooksThus the three dominant justifications of art in our time, as a strategy of self-knowledge, as means of therapy, as a road to empathy, are thrown out with the soiled bathwater. 162
Reposted by jon repettiBruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I wouldn’t have to beat you so hard if you simply complied with this beating 07820
Reposted by jon repettiJeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son." 1962470312672
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Started reading Solenoid while listening to Alice Coltrane and now all I want to do is read Solenoid while listening to Alice Coltrane. I could live like this, this could be my life. 130
Reposted by jon repettiAdam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 23/01/2026When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district. www.politico.com/news/2026/01... 1842791961
Reposted by jon repettiTom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Simple corrective: don't use AI 2123
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 23/01/2026My father-in-law knew a brain surgeon in LA specializing in traumatic injuries who put on a football helmet whenever he got in a car. Thinking about him. 050
Reposted by jon repettiLos Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 14/12/2025"Surveying Rosen’s examples, it seems that something has shifted not only within the publishing economy but also within literary form itself." @pourfairelevide.bsky.social on Jeremy Rosen’s new book. lareviewofbooks.org/article/saints-…lareviewofbooks.orgSaints of the Middlebrow | Los Angeles Review of BooksIT’S 2025, and the turn to genre is old news. 011
Reposted by jon repettiFrancine McKenna @fmckenna.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Really interesting via @pourfairelevide.bsky.social I thought it was just me. lareviewofbooks.org/article/sain...lareviewofbooks.orgSaints of the Middlebrow | Los Angeles Review of BooksJon Repetti considers Jeremy Rosen’s “Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction.” 022
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Today in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I asked why so many literary sociologists accept a definition of “literature” borrowed from people who seem to hate literature, and what it might mean to move beyond liberal humanist pablum 1138
Reposted by jon repettikate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 07/11/2025in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...sothebys.comHow Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian MemeBrutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture. 626064
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 08/09/2025hello Bluesky I wrote an article about the French author, photographer, and conceptual artist Édouard Levé, who wrote a book called “Suicide” and then immediately killed himself review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...review31.co.ukThe Foundational ActReview 31 is an online literary review. 082
Reposted by jon repettiDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...uipress.uiowa.eduNovel Competition 513938
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I wrote about Mariette Navarro’s “Ultramarine” for Full-Stop, as a story of abstract freedom, nascent class-consciousness, and libidinal bribes. www.full-stop.net/2025/06/20/r...full-stop.netUltramarine – Mariette NavarroThe sailor is a figure of subjectivity in and as flux, aspiring to the condition of the ever-changing sea. 071
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 19/06/2025you ever meet an “all-male friend group” that is less a group of friends than it is “one guy and his henchmen”? 290
Reposted by jon repettiLos Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2025"In 'The Möbius Book,' Lacey casts herself as an object of projection and analyzes her shifting responses to the fictions others make for her." Jon Repetti reviews Catherine Lacey’s new novel. lareviewofbooks.org/article/autofic… 022
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I wrote for LARB about how Catherine Lacey’s new book, which is definitely *not* autofiction, can help us understand the logics and fantasies at the root of autofictional writing. lareviewofbooks.org/article/auto...lareviewofbooks.orgAutofiction’s Primal Scene | Los Angeles Review of BooksJon Repetti returns to the scene of writing in Catherine Lacey’s new novel “The Möbius Book.” 130
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I wrote about Aliocha Coll, the two Attila’s, and the paradox of writing “for the future” in the era of too-late capitalism, for Review31 review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...review31.co.ukLaocoön’s Gaze: On Aliocha Coll, the Two <I>Attila</i>s, and the Literature of No FutureReview 31 is an online literary review. 050
jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 14/03/2025me on Danzy Senna’s latest, the novelist as frustrated professional, and the need for satire that goes beyond mere cynicism open.substack.com/pub/metropol...open.substack.com"Ten Years of Useless Labor"On Danzy Senza's 'Colored Television' 040