I spy Leonora . . .

Tonight in Chicago!

Tonight in Texas!

Got paid and immediately spent too much money on books

"My body’s interior is a surprising mystery to me. I was always taught to look outward for myself, and rarely thought about my own body." Lana Lin dissects the literary and bodily significance of the appendix: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/archive-appendix-hoodie-home/

📚 38. THE TAIGA SYNDROME by Cristina Rivera Garza. I'm a sucker for any novel that starts out with a private investigation which then turns into (a) something supernatural, (b) something Surrealist, or (c) a psychological exploration of shattering identity. This book turns into (d) all of the above

What our own Lana Lin is reading and has read @shelf-awareness.com. Includes an excellent answer to a question about which book she bought for its cover. Have you ever bought a book for its cover, reader? www.shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.ht...

Really enjoyed this fine essay...Love the entwining of archives/appendix and writing/identity. "The ruse of the literary first-person singular cloaks our lived first-person plural."

Lana Lin has a new essay (about archives and appendices) at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

Okay I need something NOT WEIRD as I just read The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez which blew my mind but was a bit, um, strange

Done! If you're in St. Louis, please consider making a donation to the St. Louis Area Foodbank. stlfoodbank.org

Friends, Lana Lin has two events coming up next week! First up: Wednesday, November 5 with Deb Olin Unferth at First Light Bookstore in Austin! Info here: www.firstlightaustin.com/events/lana-...

Barbara Comyns’ WHO WAS CHANGED AND WHO WAS DEAD is a hearty warning about the dangers of ergot poisoning, gossip columnist fathers, and mean grandmas.

Publishers Weekly has chosen THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin as one of the 20 best nonfiction books of 2025! 🎉 🎉 🎉 best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

Publishers Weekly has chosen THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin as one of the 20 best nonfiction books of 2025! 🎉 🎉 🎉 best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

reading "the endless week" by laura vazquez. so far incredibly strange and uncanny, wondering if it might actually be a successful "internet novel"

well I did not realize how much I needed this queer, quietly radical, river-mill house of a book

NBCC member Kai Maristed reviewed "The Endless Week," written by Laura Vazquez and translated from the French by Alex Niemi, for The Arts Fuse:

NYC! Tonight!

four novels (under 200 pages) we can’t recommend enough 📚 The Flat Woman (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social) 📚 Grief is the Thing with Feathers (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) 📚 Dan (@dorothyproject.bsky.social) 📚 Henrytown (Graver Goods Press)

Ooo, THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (trans by Alex Niemi) is a staff pick for October at the very cool @literatibookstore.bsky.social! literatibookstore.com/catalog/staf...

A year after our publication of her brilliant first novel, OVERSTAYING, Ariane Koch and translator Damion Searls will be in New York this Thursday, Oct 23, for the European Literature Night festival! Info here: new-york.czechcentres.cz/en/program/e...

Ooo, THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (trans by Alex Niemi) is a staff pick for October at the very cool @literatibookstore.bsky.social! literatibookstore.com/catalog/staf...

The next Miss Manhattan is on my birthday! It only happens once every seven years (ish) so come on down for tasty truths and treats 💋 Featuring Nina Sharma, Lana Lin, Brad Fox, and Gabe Henry at Niagara in the East Village. See you then!

middle daughter has an appointment, so starting in on Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians, // @dorothyproject.bsky.social

Along with seeing the David Wojnarowitz: Arthur Rimbaud in New York show & joining the #NoKings protest in Brooklyn, I also popped into Unnameable books & came out with a haul of new & used books. I'm reading the Dangarembga essays now because I am teaching Nervous Conditions next week.

“If the mother looked at her baby and thought it was ugly, if you could see it on her face, that was a point off. People booed at ugly babies.” From Laura Vazquez ’s The Endless Week, which was published last month by Dorothy.

Lana Lin’s “The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam” flips a Gertrude Stein classic into a modern queer love story.

"THE ENDLESS WEEK is dark and deep, a pool of black ink." Walker Rutter-Bowman with a fantastic review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Some new books. Finally bought the remaining three Renee Gladman Ravicka novels after reading and loving Event Factory years ago, don't know why it took me so long but the set is complete now.

So nice to see our editor's novel MARGARET THE FIRST here!

“I treated the translation of this novel like a poem, in that I let the strangeness wash over me and didn’t try to think too hard about making things ‘make sense.’” ALTA member Alex Niemi and Sarah Viren discuss Niemi's translation process and the rhythm of language. At Lit Hub:

"THE ENDLESS WEEK is dark and deep, a pool of black ink." Walker Rutter-Bowman with a fantastic review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

So nice to see our editor's novel MARGARET THE FIRST here!

92: The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza This isn't the type of book one can explain. There's an unnamed detective in unnamed countries who is hired by a man to find his 2nd wife who is one half of a mad couple. It's full of slithering fairy tales and prose I wanted to embrace. 💙📚

Congrats to all the National Book Awards finalists! It was so much fun to see Lana's book make the longlist, and we're grateful that that no doubt helped get the book into more readers' hands.

Amazing review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post today! "It’s rare to encounter a book as feral and lovely as THE ENDLESS WEEK, one equally fluent in the comedy and the horror of the world — and the word." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Picked up some bangers from Type Books in Toronto @dorothyproject.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #Books

Just bought it at @portersqbooks.bsky.social! I am reading the first pages and am already thoroughly confused

the Mónica Ojeda hive should not miss this one

it kind of feels like the only correct way to talk about The Endless Week is to post about it

Currently reading: The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez & Reel Politik by Nathan Gelgud

Lovely interview with Alex Niemi, translator of THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, just up at @literaryhub.bsky.social . . . on "sonic suspense" and more! lithub.com/alex-niemi-o...

Caren Beilin’s TBR features books by Isabella Hammad, Stephen King, Lana Lin, and more.

Our own Caren Beilin is reading our own Lana Lin (and more!) @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/the-annotate...

"In 1922, Alice B. Toklas stood at the doorway. I willed Lan Thao to take their place." Lana Lin on the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, at @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/a-new-autobi...

Our own Caren Beilin is reading our own Lana Lin (and more!) @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/the-annotate...

Congrats to all the National Book Awards finalists! It was so much fun to see Lana's book make the longlist, and we're grateful that that no doubt helped get the book into more readers' hands.

"In 1922, Alice B. Toklas stood at the doorway. I willed Lan Thao to take their place." Lana Lin on the cover of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, at @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/a-new-autobi...

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵