Wednesday evening

I read the galleys of these three books together back in October. An unplanned trio on vanishing. Both The Silent Period and The Disappearing Act are out now and Black Bag lands in a few weeks. @ndbooks.bsky.social @wwnorton.com @zandoprojects.bsky.social

Wednesday morning

The ship's creaking Taking on bullshit

Tuesday evening at the bus stop.

Sun!

Here, thou incestuous, murd’rous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion! Is thy union here? Follow my mother! [King dies.]

"Sexy, druggy, and distorted" Hell yeah!

My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.

Also in yesterday's mail a copy of The Universal Baseball Association! Out soon from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social.

In yesterday's excellent galley mail two from @graywolfpress.bsky.social! Triage by Claudia Rankine Range by Dorthe Nors; translated by Caroline Waight Both are due out in August.

In honor of Toni Morrison's birthday I'm reading Sula. The second photo is of Toni Morrison's chair while teaching at SUNY Albany. It used to be displayed in the Albany airport.

I'm currently reading and loving Bone Horn by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain! A PhD candidate in literature turned P.I. is hired by a mysterious caller to search for the missing horn of Alice B. Toklas. Out in June from Soft Skull Press. How about that cover!

Tuesday morning from the bus window.

Tuesday morning

Monday afternoon.

Galley Day part two! All forthcoming from @wwnorton.com and and @liveright.bsky.social. Titles are in the alt text.

Sunday sneak peek with The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova; translated by Sasha Dugdale. "In the summer of 2023 the grass carried on growing as if nothing at all was wrong." Out on Tuesday from @ndbooks.bsky.social.

Sunday afternoon

Galley Day! All forthcoming from @fsgbooks.bsky.social, MCD, and @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social Titles are in the alt text.

Sunday morning.

In the mail today two of my most anticipated books of 2026! Animal Spiral by Luis Othoniel Rosa; translated by Katie Marya and Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro; translated by Frances Riddle. @charcopress.com

László on Thursday morning.

Tuesday morning

László!

Monday morning.

Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

Sunday morning.

Friday afternoon.

Tuesday morning

I feel quite fortunate to have this collection of Toni Morrison's lectures during her tenure at Princeton University. Language as Liberation is out tomorrow from @aaknopf.bsky.social. Please support your local independent bookstore/neighborhood library.

Sunday evening.

February 2026! Short stories and essays to keep the doom away for a few minutes. The titles are in the alt text.

Monday afternoon

Sunday galleys with Etna by Paul Yoon and Cat Love by Tomás Q. Morín!

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Ring the alarum-bell! Murder and treason!

The fool slides o’er the ice that you should break.

Time for a ramble. @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social

Tuesday morning.

László on Tuesday.

It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.

Monday evening

Monday morning.

From One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.

I'm currently reading Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun by Mónica Ojeda; translated by Sarah Booker due out in May from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. coffeehousepress.org/products/ele...

By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.

A goodly prize, fit for the devil’s grace!

I just read The Hitch by Sara Levine. This book is absolutely bonkers!

László watching for gulls on an overcast Wednesday morning.