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jon repetti

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writer and critic - long suffering Mets fan - marketing director @deepvellum.bsky.social & @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The 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
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
some news from Deep Vellum:
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New 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!
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New 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!
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New 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.
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Fargo 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...
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TERROR COUNTER
By 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…
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Ito Romo @itoromo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @willevans.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social
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How ‘Filth Eaters’ by Ito Romo Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest novel.
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The 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!
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
From 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!
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We 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!
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
5.18.26 — the FILTH EATERS are coming.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is the destination of every company that tries to replace creative human workers with AI slop. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI
Three 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.
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
it’s been said many times, but New York’s hottest club really is the McNally Jackson Seaport location
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The latest edition of The Tunnel Reader Newsletter, featuring the one and only John Darnielle of @themountaingoats@bsky.social, is in your inbox now!
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Coming 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
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The 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.
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Svetislav 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...
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Pound-for-pound the greatest living writer in Portuguese. Celebrate the Formentor today and place your bets on the Nobel tomorrow!
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Dr. 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."
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Fair-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!
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Rodrigo 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)!
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Pour 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...
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An Oulipo Mini-Anthology | KCRW
Jacques 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…
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
DIARY 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!
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
a 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
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some 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
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Michael 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...
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William H. Gass: The Tunnel | KCRW
Author William H. Gass discusses the evolution and style of his thirty-years-in-the-making new novel, finally published this month.
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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Finished 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.
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
THE 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.
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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
i 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)
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ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Scenes from a city under siege
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I 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...
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Fingering His Wounds: On Tatiana Tibuleac’s "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" - Cleveland Review of Books
Thus 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.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I wouldn’t have to beat you so hard if you simply complied with this beating
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 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."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Started 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.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 23/01/2026
When 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...
“Training’s not going to fix this,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas). “This is really going to be a deescalation of people thinking they can harm agents or get away or evade. It has to be a point where people understand when they’re being confronted by an ICE agent, that’s at the end of the road. That’s not the beginning of the due process, it’s the end of the due process.”
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Simple corrective: don't use AI
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My 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.
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 18/12/2025
Many, especially in younger generations, see through this posturing. They have watched wide-eyed as a genocide that would otherwise be swept under the rug by the manufacturing-consent machine was televised to them in horrific fragments on Instagram Live, and they know, in the simplest terms, that things are not the way they should be. Every day, it becomes clearer that the symbolic order needs to be remade, not preserved. The world of the twentieth century—much less the earlier ones—is no longer our world; its benevolent institutions have been stripped bare, and its malevolent ones have been given more ammunition than ever. The dreams of social equity and even environmentalism that so often powered modernist thinking have devolved beyond historical disappointments into a series of never-ending nightmares. The future of federal architecture, if we are going by what is actually being built at scale by the US government, appears to be the prison, the wall, the climate refugee camp.
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Los 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-…
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Saints of the Middlebrow | Los Angeles Review of Books
IT’S 2025, and the turn to genre is old news.
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Francine McKenna @fmckenna.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Really interesting via @pourfairelevide.bsky.social I thought it was just me. lareviewofbooks.org/article/sain...
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Saints of the Middlebrow | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jon Repetti considers Jeremy Rosen’s “Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction.”
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Today 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
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 07/11/2025
in 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/...
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How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme
Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
hello 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...
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The Foundational Act
Review 31 is an online literary review.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
If 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-...
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Novel Competition
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I 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...
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Ultramarine – Mariette Navarro
The sailor is a figure of subjectivity in and as flux, aspiring to the condition of the ever-changing sea.
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
you ever meet an “all-male friend group” that is less a group of friends than it is “one guy and his henchmen”?
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Los 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…
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I 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...
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Autofiction’s Primal Scene | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jon Repetti returns to the scene of writing in Catherine Lacey’s new novel “The Möbius Book.”
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I 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...
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Laocoön’s Gaze: On Aliocha Coll, the Two <I>Attila</i>s, and the Literature of No Future
Review 31 is an online literary review.
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jon repetti @pourfairelevide.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
me 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...
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"Ten Years of Useless Labor"
On Danzy Senza's 'Colored Television'
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