Pleased that my review of Gabriele Tergit’s masterpiece Effingers ran in this weekend’s @wsj.com www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

I blocked everyone on Twitter who didn’t like The Longcut by Emily Hall lol

Jonathan Moreland has been writing an amazing book on the long sentence in contemporary fiction, with chapters on Krasznahorkai, Ellman, Fosse, and my novels. Here’s a Q&A we did recently for Global South Literary Studies. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IUZYK...

Moresco on his œuvre — now @minorliteratures.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/i...

Afinidades electivas.

Testing / testing

Posting some books I enjoyed in 2025 to see if anyone’s here

American Abductions by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social published by the good folks at @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

Join us for a discussion of Michael Lentz's 1001 page novel Schattenfroh with translator Max Lawton and author Mauro Javier Cardenas Date and time Thursday, October 30 · 7 - 9pm PDT www.eventbrite.com/e/schattenfr...

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Finally read _American Abductions_ by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social while I'm down with covid. No disappointment. Haven't seen any blurbs mention Dostoevsky yet, but I'm ready to call it _The Sisters Brzeszczykowski_. @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

Two books I’ve been reading excitedly this week: Atusparia by Gabriela Wiener & the new essay collection by Yoko Tawada

Wondering what big outlet will pay me to do a small press books roundup every month or two because it seems like this is more necessary now than ever

Emocionado hasta la médula @ineluctablequak.bsky.social

Like I keep saying: It's all very American Abductions x Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Absolutely. More recent but also very excellent -and terrifying-American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas.

Blurbs from Lemony Snicket, Joanna Ruocco, Brian Evenson, Brandon Shimoda, & Carol Guess 🤯🥺😭 www.neonpajamas.com/pizama-press...

Hey look there’s a project on the influence of Thomas Bernhard on contemporary literature 💕

amazing book mail from two great used book shops on Instagram, Apport Used Books and Barbed Wyre Books. Also two new releases from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and an order from a recent sale at @versobooks.bsky.social, excited to get to these books✨📚

Next up is American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas—been looking forward to this one since it came out

so as not to be driven mad Thomas Bernhard, ‘Madness’, in ‘The Voice Imitator’, tr Kenneth J. Northcott

haha I’m so fucking scared for the future

Fantastic close reading by @evand.bsky.social of AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS, my 3rd novel. “It is also a book filled with humor and hard-earned joy, suffused with a rare philosophical intelligence that saves it from any hint of mawkishness.” evanreads.substack.com/p/actually-p...

Start your 2025 off right by tuning into the mind of the Collective! go.bsky.app/UrzZa6j

I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

Fantastic book pile

Dramatically, melodramatically, or obliquely: American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cárdenas @ineluctablequak.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2024/12/29/d...

Fav SciFi - Roadside Picnic Fav Crime - forgot to include Derek Raymond’s “He Died With His Eyes Open” but that Best book that got an ugly cry out of me: Satantango Best 2024 release: American Abductions by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social

Someone should write a Compendium of Writers Attempting to Self-Induce New Circuitries.

Lo mejor de estas fechas es la manera en que la convivencia familiar borra de un plumazo el paso del tiempo y los años de terapia y te regresa al mismo estado de ansiedad y frustración de la infancia y adolescencia. Y la ensalada de manzana.

My new book The Afterlife Is Letting Go — on the memory/forgetting of Japanese American incarceration — is officially out @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/hnVas. Thank you to everyone who contributed to its life, esp. the 200 survivors and descendants who appear, in their own words, throughout it.

I saw this once in Berkeley as a Merce Cunningham dance 💕

My new bookmark. Sorry, Greg Ginn…

DOGE is a fake government agency designed to provide flimsy "innovative efficiency" cover to corrupt robber barons as they dismantle federal corporate oversight and sell the country for scrap off the back loading dock any politicians or journalists helping the performance should be laughed at

Small press recommendation. From the mighty @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social, American Abductions, by @ineluctablequak.bsky.social. Read this book for so many reasons: for a sense of what sentences can do, for an important reflection on the state of the rotten world, for the best kind of challenge.

Nice allusive text dude, very erudite. Maybe next time you’ll be able to come up with your own ideas

This is the way

september-october-november dispatch 🐰💦 ft. Sarah Gerard @annakornbluh.bsky.social Blythe Roberson, Wei Tchou @sarahmanguso.bsky.social Barbara Molinard, Anne Carson, Nora Lange @samheaps.bsky.social Kathy Acker @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social Walter Scott @ineluctablequak.bsky.social & Bianca Xunise

I hereby promise never to go on vacation abroad again unless it is for research for a book. 👹

Gonna be hilarious when the AI complains the New York Times didn’t cover their books 🤖

Every day of tourism is at least 100 words I didn't write

All I wanted was to have more followers than my nemeses.

What are some of the great anti-privatization films? Touch of Sin by Jia Zhangke comes to mind. 🔥

Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

Okay select your favorite USA writer: 1) Gerald Murnane 2) Yoko Tawada 3) Antonio Lobo Antunes

Alvin manages something extremely difficult here: the sustainment of narrative momentum and the meticulous vigilance of language. There are passages that are overwhelming in their energy. Eminently made to last.

I’m in a different time zone — in a city where two lanes become five lanes become three — and for a week now I haven’t had a single literary thought.

finished my first reading of this paranoid novella; don’t worry flotsams carried by the waves of disaster, there are no sheltered places for us—we have to keep marching through the night, keep going, going, going ever onward…

Learned today that “quad” at the local coffeeshop isn’t an arbitrary name for large drinks but instead an explicit reference to the number of shots of espresso in my 2pm latte …so going to be up all night finally reading this beaut @ineluctablequak.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social