Lydia Davis (Our Strangers)

One of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023 and a Booker Prize nominee, Sarah Bernstein powerfully explores questions of complicity and power, displacement and inheritance. STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE hits shelves today!

Ohhhh this is so good, a fantastic jolt in the fog of rice cakes and emails —

harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

“She liked to tell people that the “Y.S.L.” on her scarves stood for “Young Socialist League.”

(I’ve never gotten over this anecdote) newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Talking to Sarah Bernstein about Christine Brooke-Rose’s “groping inside new forms” and “techniques for living” (again!) — how much this describes my current mode of thinking and being and reading —

Vivian Gornick on the workhorse life (and the pitfalls of the so-called fast lane):

Galleys of The Hearing Test (Eliza Callahan) are landing...

Fans of Cusk, Lispector, Jaeggy... hmu! ☁️🔴

The trainman’s cat Stamina crunches walnuts in her cat dish

I took the car alone for two blissful hours at the Brewster beach with a bag of cherries and peaches and the Magazine. 8/2/52

A dream of a debut 💘

Study for Obedience is an unsettling novel that explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator.

Congratulations to Sarah Bernstein, longlisted for the #BookerPrize2023 .

thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Seven of this year's Booker Dozen come from indies. Independent Alliance 🫡

Congratulations to Sarah Bernstein whose impeccable second novel STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE is long-listed for The Booker. I couldn’t be more proud Granta Books

I wrote a novel about ART and ENVY. Out July 2024 🤍 thank you Harriet Moore Cian Mc Court Verso Books 🤍

I am so looking forward to running a workshop with Vanessa Peterson Frieze as part of the prototype Development Programme. Applications are open 13 September - 23 October.

Today’s delivery.

Et voilà! The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan now has an absolutely dreamy cover 🔴☁️

Fans of Cusk, Lispector, Jaeggy, & Sebald: brace yourselves 🔴☁️

Coming from Catapult March '24 (Reviewers & booksellers, lmk if you'd like a galley!) 🔴☁️

Nothing makes my baby happier than crawling over to my archive of New Yorkers and ripping them up, in a frenzy, one by one.

I used to think everything had meaning––
and it does.

Mary Ruefle