“Love is romantic, and then all of a sudden you’ve got diapers, the fridge, getting up early in the morning . . . everything becomes prosaic. Children and making a film: two reasons why guys leave me.” Catherine Breillat from I Only Believe in Myself (@semiotexte.bsky.social). buff.ly/0wtgaAe

“I’ve realized that I wasn’t such a good mother. It’s not enough to love your children, that’s too easy, and I think I’m completely selfish.” Catherine Breillat from I Only Believe in Myself ( @semiotexte.bsky.social ).

Great interview with John Tottenham at LARB:

A beautiful piece by Vivian Gornick: www.bostonreview.net/articles/cre...

Radu lounging with an immaculate pairing, the Penman being from @semiotexte.bsky.social.

Late Night Read: Ian Penman's Fassbinder Thousands of Mirror, put out by @semiotexte.bsky.social

Now available for pre-order from our site (everywhere excluding N. America - MEMORY is publishing with @semiotexte.bsky.social in NA, also Nov 2025). Use the code AUTUMNPREORDER at check-out for 10% off (applies to all forthcoming books): www.silverpress.org/collections/...

Probably my favorite essay I've written this year. Mainly on The Missing Pieces by Henri Lefebvre (@semiotexte.bsky.social) + my own brief list of literary and artistic gaps. Might keep adding to this list... Thank you to Ben & @libraryofamerica.bsky.social www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

De-con-struc of ass-up dooky-dent flip 'Castle F****t' [guessing the uncensored title will get flagged] by Derek McCormack [published by @semiotexte.bsky.social ] that turns Disneyland into Doodyland and the brown shit inside the crypt into hyperreal everything. psychoholosuite.com/2025/07/16/d...

Recent buys from Type Books in Toronto @transitbooks.bsky.social @semiotexte.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #Books

'That's how it is: you're exhausted now, not just physically; your mind, which is also a little bit your heart, has sustained damage as well. Or your heart, which is also a little bit your mind [...]' From Seasonal Associate by Heike Geissler, tr. Katy Derbyshire, out via @semiotexte.bsky.social

Emmett Rensin: ?"I have read very few like Airless Spaces. I have loved it for years in large part because it does not profer any story, does not comfort, and does not pretend to have anything at all to do with the Shulamith Firestone who came before her break." thepointmag.com/criticism/ha...

“You can buy it over the counter. The instructions say it’s to be used to soothe stomachache. All the junkies take it when they need a fix.” From Name, Constance Debré, published in April by @semiotexte.bsky.social. Translated from the French by Lauren Elkin.

I reviewed John Tottenham’s excellent debut novel for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

an excerpt of John Tottenham's Service in Lithub:

SERVICE by John Tottenham Semiotext(e) May 6th 2025 A book review by Alexander Laurence portable-infinite.blogspot.com/2025/04/serv...

Thanks Jasmine Vojdani for selecting John Tottenham's Service in VULTURE's 8 Books you should read in May. www.vulture.com/article/new-...

How to Fuck Like a Girl (Vera Blossom, Dopamine/Semiotext(e)), Defund (Calvin John Smiley, Haymarket Books), and, both by Joy James from Pluto Press: Beyond Cop Cities & Engage. @haymarketbooks.org @plutopress.bsky.social @semiotexte.bsky.social #BookSky #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books 💙📚 9/10

Loved this piece by Syd Staiti: www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-roo...

An excerpt of Constance Debré's new book NAME in the Paris Review: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04...

An impossible decision for my train journey! Do I: a) read from a new book (Dodie Bellamy’s Bee Reaved arrived yesterday) OR b) listen to ‘The Giver’ on repeat until I reach Waterloo?

Detournement, “A Canadian Dream” from Semiotext(e) #17, 1994

Reading very slowly this year, but just finished the republished semiotext(e) edition of IN THRALL by Jane DeLynn. It was so tender and lovely. Recommend if you want a sad lesbian coming of age novel. With an intro by Colm Tóibín, no less! www.semiotexte.com/in-thrall

Kinda cool book from Semiotext(e). Really interesting reviews. Clever but also insightful. Here's a review of it: www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

Didier Eribon pioneered the white working-class memoir. Now he has tackled extreme old age, in a "sociobiography" of his mother, who died only weeks after entering an old-age home. My @financialtimes.com interview with the sociologist, on "coming out" as gay and then working-class on.ft.com/4hnmaXz

“In Lippens’s books, the messiness of life is stylized, or sharpened into sensibility.” @lindsaylerman.bsky.social interviews @natelippens.bsky.social about his new novel RIPCORD @semiotexte.bsky.social , friendship, gatekeeping & more…🌀 southwestreview.com/a-porous-exc...

Didier Eribon's The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman, translated by Michael Lucey, in the Financial Times.

If I achieve the ridiculous deadline I set myself for chapter 5 edits I can treat self to reading this @semiotexte.bsky.social book ❤️

“Women and Love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.” --Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex For 4Columns I wrote about Firestone and her only work of fiction, Airless Spaces, reissued by @semiotexte.bsky.social 4columns.org/phillips-jul...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #booklovers 📚💙 An important review of Shulamith Firestone's only collection of autobiographical #shortstories, just republished, and a profile and appreciation of the author, including her landmark feminist book, The Dialectic of Sex. wapo.st/41fd74X #feminism

Great essay on Heather Lewis's Notice by Gracie Hadland in The Nation:

Cool, cool. My books from Massive Bookshop rocked up #BeyondCopCities and #ConspiracistManifesto Interested to read Conspiracist Manifesto, the last book I got from the Semiotext(e) series was Gore Capitalism which was ace

Amazon Strike Seasonally appropriate reading

#reposts Oct 9, 2022. From @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social Photo: Serge Daney, Los Angeles, early 1960s. On 10/16, Mezzanine and Semiotext(e) present an evening in tribute to the film critic on the occasion of the first English-language collection of his writings.

The art of the product review... Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews" (Semiotext(e)) *Fun the way this book cover mimics Library of America style www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kevi...

Reading Constance Debré today, her debut novel, Love Me Tender. A French woman comes out as a lesbian, divorces her husband and reinvents herself. From semiotext(e), translated from the French by Holly James.

There’s a collection of Kevin Killian's Amazon reviews just published by Semiotext(e). It's over 600 pages long, and after just a few pages, it already led me to this gem by Amy Lowell.

“All of the characters in Airless Spaces are set on a slow but inevitable downward trajectory. Shulamith Firestone’s goal as a writer is to show us exactly how they got there.” New: Chris Kraus on AIRLESS SPACES, out next week from @SemiotextePress. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

If you haven’t read Sasha’s memoirs, do yourself a favor and find them at @semiotexte.bsky.social!

I GOT A @semiotexte.bsky.social ARC!!!????? 😭😭🙏🏽

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I really love Kevin Killian's Amazon reviews, and the new @semiotexte.bsky.social anthology collecting them is a remarkable book. Thanks to @clereviewbooks.bsky.social for running this thoughtful review today.

@sashafrerejones.bsky.social once again curates the most beautiful, mournful writing on the year that was. Come for the Kaveh Akbar poem, stay for Gary Indiana's thoughts on Kevin Killian's Selected Amazon Reviews & Nate Lippens' Ripcord (via Hedi El Kholti) n.sashafrerejones.com/archive/writ...

“We’re all looking for some kind of escape from the busyness of our lives, looking for a time when things didn’t move so fast and didn’t cost so much time and money, a time when we lived off the land and had a more natural relation to the things of wool.”

A great review by Bruce Hainley of Guillaume Dustan's Nicolas Pages: