“Lexi Freiman shitposts from the bottom of her heart.” This review by Justin Taylor is art.

sorry but: 'Lexi Freiman shitposts from the bottom of her heart.'

is that not the greatest quote ever pulled???

Justin Taylor Bookforum Magazine

Personally I thought the pull-quote was 'Lexi Freiman shitposts from the bottom of her heart' but either way -- great book that I had a blast writing about

If you like to laugh, today is your lucky day. Check out Justin Taylor on the new Randgirl novel, as Waldman called it.

'For a supposedly irony-pilled reactionary, Anna spends a lot of time crying or trying not to cry.'

Online early from our forthcoming issue, read Justin Taylor's review of Lexi Freiman's satire THE BOOK OF AYN (@CatapultStory): bit.ly/40LrwW9

PAPER TRAIL: Following public pressure, poet Mosab Abu Toha has been freed after being detained and reportedly beaten by IDF; staff of Lapham’s Quarterly have been furloughed; at The New York Review of Books, an open letter by scholars of the Holocaust on the misuse of its memory. bit.ly/3uoxGiK

'When it comes to Nunez, she always says the loud part quietly.' A fantastic portrait of Whiting winner Sigrid Nunez's work and review of her latest novel, THE VULNERABLES, by Jane Hu in Bookforum Magazine buff.ly/47jbCob

Loved this line from Jane Hu on Sigrid Nunez: 'When I see her, she’s exactly as I imagined: short and regal, graceful but with a sense of the slapstick.' A new Bookforum Magazine is on the way!

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Background Poise: Sigrid Nunez breaks the rules

Online early from Bookforum's fall issue! Read Jane Hu on Sigrid Nunez, her new novel THE VULNERABLES (@riverheadbooks), and how her writing quietly breaks the rules. bookforum.com/print/3002/sig…

i feel like i’ve been working on this piece for years. grateful it found a home with bookforum 💕

Online early from Bookforum's fall issue! Read Jane Hu on Sigrid Nunez, her new novel THE VULNERABLES (@riverheadbooks), and how her writing quietly breaks the rules. bookforum.com/print/3002/sig…

PAPER TRAIL: An interview with Rashid Khalidi at The Drift, a new issue of Parapraxis, eyal weizman in the London Review of Books, David O'Neill on David Wojnarowicz in NYer Page-Turner, and more stories in our news roundup!

'A lover’s discourse with four repeated figures: I miss you, I hope to see you soon, I wish you well, I love you.'

I wrote about David's love letters for The New Yorker

I wrote about David Wojnarowicz for NYer Page-Turner
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As screwed up as this country is, we can still produce a Don DeLillo who can understand and explain us. Exactly. Fantastic essay on the incomparable #DonDeLillo

Archive | Stockholm, Are You Listening? bookforum.com/print/2701/why… Bookforum Magazine

Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily for this reminder today, and Bookforum Magazine and Gerald Howard for publishing it a few years back. bookforum.com/print/2701/why…

*At the Cash Register*

Bookseller: So glad it’s back!

Me: Me too.

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'Given how much happens to this narrator without his knowledge, HANGMAN feels like a novel written with active verbs in the passive voice.'

Read The New Negroni on Maya Binyam's debut novel in the current issue of Bookforum: bookforum.com/print/3001/may…