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Terry Pitts (Vertigo)

@vertigoterry.bsky.social
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Since 2007, I have written about W.G. Sebald, literature with embedded photographs, and literature at the challenging end of the spectrum. I write at sebald.wordpress.com.

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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
After rereading To the Lighthouse, I also reread Genevieve Kaplan's brilliant chapbook of poems erasing a single paragraph from Woolf's novel, "Settings for These Scenes." A smart little book in so many ways. sebald.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/g...
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Daniele Del Giudice's 1st novel (1983) has finally been translated into English. It's about a writer who decided to stop writing. Italo Calvino said this book was "a new approach to representation." From New Vessel Press. sebald.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/a...
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I've created a new, ongoing, annotated bibliography of and about redacted poetry of all kinds. (And there are o-so-many ways to redact words!) It has links that let you see pages from most of the poetry titles. Even a few redacted novels snuck in. sebald.wordpress.com/redacted-the...
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Three books blew me away this year: John Trefry’s prose fiction Plats, Richard Siken’s brand new volume of poetry I Do Know Something, and Martha A. Sandweiss’s non-fiction The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/n...
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Want a novel on the challenging side with an independent voice? Caleb Klaces, Mr. Outside (Prototype Press) or Rebecca Grandsen, Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group (Tangerine Press). Mr. Outside comes with photos. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/r...
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In his novel "Tomás Nevinson," Javier Marías describes the expressions on the faces of people in a photograph shown on the next page. The idea of reading faces like this gets its public scientific stamp of approval from Charles Darwin in 1872. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/t...
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Giorgio Agamben’s “Self-Portrait in the Studio” is utterly fascinating in so many ways. He uses his study as the locus for an intellectual memoir tracing the people, books & places that have been important to his thinking. Great photographs throughout.
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Mathias Énard's "Tell Them of Battles, Kings & Elephants" is not his best, but very readable. However, vol. 2 of Yoko Tawada's trilogy, "Suggested in the Stars" is mostly forgettable. It feels like she's lost her way. As they say on the news, details at: sebald.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/r...
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Such a great author photo. Peter Handke playing Foosball on the rear jacket of Short Letter, Long Farewell (FSG, 1974). US first edition.
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Sylee Gore's first book "Maximum Summer" (Nion Editions) gives us short, intimate, sometimes visceral poems about the first few months of the poet with her new child. The poems are arranged on the page like snapshots in an album. No photographs necessary.
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Second half of my long review of W.G. Sebald's book of essays on Austrian literature Silent Catastrophes, translated by the terrific Jo Catling, is up now. Get the book! It's affordable! sebald.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/s...
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
From Virginia Woolf's Diaries, September 10, 1918
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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The 18 notable books I read in 2024, from Asiya Wadud's incandescent poetry which wants to become dance, to Jeremy Eicher's Time's Echo, on music composed to commemorate the Holocaust. Also: @saintsoftness.bsky.social, Yoko Ogawa & Cristina Rivera Garza. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/n...
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