Join @dsparis.bsky.social in conversation with @adamdalva.bsky.social at Books Are Magic (Montague St.) to celebrate the release of his new novel THE DANCE AND THE FIRE! 🔥 Details & RSVP here: buff.ly/yFCn5tR

We love Marie NDiaye and her long-time translator Jordan Stump! Check out our former book editor @adamdalva.bsky.social 's conversation with NDiaye at Community Bookstore, transcribed here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Our @yalereview.bsky.social Summer Fiction issue is finally here! There are too many good stories and essays to single anything out, including new work by Scholastique Mukasonga, Garth Greenwell, Katie Kitamura, Bryan Washington, Jenny Erpenbeck, Rachel Cusk, etc: yalereview.org/issues/summe...

A fabulous night with Gay Talese at the Society Library

Tonight at The Strand - join us!

Coming soon: our summer fiction issue! New work by seven writers reshaping what the story can do. Subscribe before May 5 to receive your copy in print—and choose your free, beach-ready merch. yalereviewstore.org/products/the...

I am very moved that the board of the National Book Critics Circle has chosen me to serve as our next President. It’s an incredible group at @bookcritics.bsky.social and I can't wait to get to work with them.

New Yorkers! In surreal news, I’ll be speaking with the legendary journalist Gay Talese at The New York Society Library on April 29th. Register here and join us: www.nysoclib.org/events/gay-t...

Sad to read about Dag Solstad's passing. Armand V is one of my favorite novels, and T. Singer is fantastic, as is Professor Anderson's Night and Shyness & Dignity. I was lucky enough to interview him a few years ago and he was characteristically brilliant: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Love this story - and love the entire spring issue, which I've been reading through today with pleasure

This, from the interview between Krasznahorkai and Kunzru, really struck me.

This story is astounding - ambitious, long, and strange - and @harikunzru.bsky.social's interview contextualizes it wonderfully.

So thrilled about this!

The Yale Review's enticing Cultural Artifacts column (yalereview.org/article/favo...), which is filled with great suggestions and moments from my colleagues, is here! I surprised myself and wrote about a video game: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Loved serving on this committee, and really love this list, packed with my favorite books of the year

We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Poetry! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...

We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...

We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Autobiography! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/17/2...

I love reading for this committee - what a list!!

Serving on this committee was a delight, and I love the list we came up with. What great books!

Really adored All We Imagine as Light - my favorite film I've seen in theaters this year. Smart, beautifully shot, and incredibly emotional, with a perfect ending.

The Winter Issue of @yalereview.bsky.social is out, and it has many delights: Melissa Febos; Andrew Martin; Leanne Shapton; Chloe Aridjis. And I'm thrilled to share Ayşegül Savaş's marvelous new story, "Twirl," which takes on online dating as only she can: yalereview.org/article/ayse...

Over the summer, Merve Emre and I spoke about George Gissing's THE ODD WOMEN for @sandtclassics.bsky.social - it was a memorable conversation. Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing it: lithub.com/an-ending-di...

Loved @alexanderchee.bsky.social's Substack about a terrific question from a student at our @yalereview.bsky.social event!

Grateful to @alexanderchee.bsky.social for telling me about the late Mark Hyatt’s brilliant novel LOVE, LEDA- written pre-1967, preserved by his friends, and published last year in UK and this year in USA. It’s a hypnotic depiction of queer life in London’s SoHo, and Hyatt is a fascinating figure.

A nice treat in the mail! Totally fascinating book, and a blast to talk about it with Merve.

Honored to keep doing the work for 3 more years - thanks to our hundreds of member critics who voted! (And also happy to see NBCC on Blue Sky!)

If anyone in NYC is looking for some distraction, I'm excited to be moderating this event today at Albertine, 2 PM! www.albertine.com/events/liter...

Impossible to sleep, impossible to be awake - thinking of everyone on here.

My fiction team collectively and unanimously resigned from Guernica today. I'm proud of them, and the work we did over the last two years - six editors and nine readers, volunteering and collaborating with great writers to publish weird, beautiful stories. I'll miss it.

Wrote about the specific challenges of film adaptation, focusing on two of my favorite recent movies - Drive My Car and Burning - for the Gagosian Quarterly - alongside new work by Rachel Cusk, Amit Chaudhuri, and Sofia Coppola: gagosian.com/quarterly/is...

Can't wait for this!

Wrote a bit about Victor Heringer - one of my favorite discoveries of the year - and Elisa Shua Dusapin for WWB's year end list, which is full of great books: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Two beautiful stories to share in this month's Guernica Fiction section: Bobuq Sayed's "Ground Zero"(www.guernicamag.com/ground-zero/) and Scott Broker's "Threshold" (www.guernicamag.com/threshold/). I loved editing these - each is quite surprising.

Benjamín Labatut’s writing has captivated me in recent years - I had a blast profiling him (or, rather, trying to) for Lit Hub, with help from friends and a surprise cameo from one of the real-life figures in his fabulous new novel, THE MANIAC lithub.com/benjamin-lab...

I started a Substack: adamdalva.substack.com/p/the-style-...

Is anyone else reading DOPPLEGANGER by Naomi Klein? I'm loving it - smart, funny, and re-wiring my brain a bit.

So honored and proud to finally be able to share this news! Major thank you to the Whiting Foundation, and major congratulations to everyone working at Guernica Magazine. Very grateful to my team in the Fiction department today.

Some of my favorite novels lately. I loved doing the launch event HANGMAN - it's terrific and Maya was a wonderful interlocutor. And TREMORS, BLACKOUTS, and I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME all felt very fresh and exciting - I'm judging fiction this year for NBCC and have much to consider!

Had a great time with Parul Sehgal for Words Without Borders - in case you missed it, the video is here! https://wordswithoutborders.org/events/a-vocabulary-of-pleasure-a-virtual-salon-with-literary-critic-parul-sehgal-adam-dalva/?src=dropdown

So proud to be among the organizers of "Labor & Literary Criticism" a panel in which @jenniferwilson.bsky.social, Nora Caplan-Bricker, E. Tammy Kim, @zzoehhu.bsky.social and @adamdalva.bsky.social will be discussing reviewing books with strong labor and class themes! RSVP: tinyurl.com/laborpanel23

I have a new piece up on Lit Hub today, courtesy of the folks at Cake Zine. It’s a raw one: https://lithub.com/on-grief-pizza-and-the-power-of-food-to-evoke-memory/

Turned in my works cited list for my talk at NYU Paris on Monday - the reading for this was a blast

I’m in Granta Portugal! It is the first time that my work has been translated - totally thrilling

I love leading the fiction team at Guernica, and think that we've been on a hot streak these last few months. We have great new stories on offer today by Jamel Brinkley, Meghan Gilliss, and Michel Bulteau (translated by Austyn Wohlers) https://www.guernicamag.com/format/fiction/

Bob Gottlieb - a lovely man, a wonderful friend, and a genius. I'll miss him. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/remembering-robert-gottlieb-editor-extraordinaire

Loved talking to my friend @blgtylr.bsky.social for Guernica - this was a great day: https://www.guernicamag.com/brandon-taylor-the-story-cant-be-so-loyal-to-one-character-that-it-betrays-another/