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Rosa Campbell will talk about the life and poetry of Bunny Lang with Emily Pittinos at Riffraff Bookstore in Providence tonight at 7pm. "Poetry can never be much more than a commentary At best, a breathless summation for what words, What words existed before their source?"

The Miraculous Season: editor Rosa Campbell w/ Emily Pittinos – ProvidRiffraff Bookstore and Bar invites you to a reading and discussion with Rosa Campbell on The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V.R. "Bunny" Lang. Edited by Campbell, The Miraculous Season is an exq...www.nyrb.com

"if you like comics that have been rescued for wider consumption from the dustbin of history and – in this case – if intense sci-fi is your bag, we guarantee you will have a thunderously good time with this." This being Jean Pleyers's Children of Light, which was in part written by aliens.

“Establish Paralyzopulser force field.” – Children of Light by Jean Pleyers (trans. Luke Burns)First published in the French magazine Métal Hurlant between 1981-83, those lovely people at the New York Review of Comics have now seen Jean Pleyers’ The Children of Light (originally titled Les Ê…bookmunch.wordpress.com

@newyork.asiasociety has picked Eileen Chang's Time Tunnel (trs. Karen Kingsbury & Jie Zhang) as their book club pick for September. It's free to join (but read the book) and in their beautiful building on Park Ave.

Book Club: Eileen Chang’s Time TunnelJoin the China Books Review book club this September to discuss Time Tunnel by Eileen Chang, a collection of previously untranslated stories from Eileen's literary career.asiasociety.org

"Brad Neely has an interesting sense of humor, and he draws funny to boot. That's really all it takes." @teganoneil5000.bsky.social compares Brad Neely ("he's pretty funny, pretty insightful, and pretty talented as well") to Gary Larson in @comicsjournal.bsky.social www.tcj.com/reviews/crea...

"An often drily humorous meditation on place, time, memory and history, Château Rouge is an elegant, thoughtful, and intriguing piece of work." Amit Chaudhuri's Château Rouge, out in the US on August 11, reviewed in @heraldscotland.bsky.social.

This vivid postcard to down-at-heel Paris is an elegant and intriguing novelBorn in Calcutta and raised in Bombay, Amit Chaudhuri is an award-winning novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. He is also a musician,…www.heraldscotland.com

"Effingers has a nineteenth-century novel’s engine but a coat of New Objectivity prose. The achievement of Tergit’s translator, Sophie Duvernoy, cannot be overstated.... The mere existence of Effingers is a literary miracle." @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social in @commonwealmagazine.org

Distressingly ResonantGabriele Tergit’s 1951 novel 'Effingers' paints a vast and amiably peopled panorama of German-Jewish life at the turn of the twentieth century.www.commonwealmagazine.org

"I find myself falling in love with Claude from Lives of the Saints. The perfect man. A sweaty smoking clumsy curious constantly-drunk Southern wreck in a seersucker suit, egoless, reaching, filled with saintly goodness and curiosity. I want to love Claude and also want to be Claude."

Nancy Lemann's SouthWhen You're There, Your Ticker's Back in Businesstherepublicofletters.substack.com

"[The letters] brilliantly reveal Babitz’s eye for the deep shallow as well as explore the porous boundary between the largely self-inflicted injuries of her private life and the glittering sheen of her public persona."

What did L.A.’s ultimate party girl say about lust and fame? A peek inside Eve Babitz's private letters in "Too L.A."A new collection of Eve Babitz’s largely unsent correspondence, “Too L.A.,” resurrects the cult writer’s singular voice — and revelry.www.latimes.com

Tonight 6pm at Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC (1133 Broadway) Launch for Bunny Lang's poetry collection, The Miraculous Season, with Rosa Campbell (@rosacampbell.bsky.social) Dorothea Lasky, and Jameson Fitzpatrick. "Something that remains very modern starts here." —Alice Notley

Congrats to Gwendoline Riley on making the list for The Palm House! And the other writers, of course.

John Berger film festival in NYC starts tomorrow. www.filmcomment.com/events/film-...

Hold Everything Dear – John Berger and Cinema | Film CommentA multi-venue Film Comment Live series celebrating the writer’s centennial.www.filmcomment.com

Booksellers, if you are going to the NAIBA/SEIBA conference in Baltimore, we have three galleys you can pick up: @anakanaschofield.bsky.social's Library of Brothel, Scott Schomburg's The Lost Years of Joseph Mitchell, and Easton Smith's Levitations.

"Riley has a formidable talent...for rendering the way a person's particular compound of vanities, insecurities, and sadism is revealed through speech." Damn straight. Hermione Hoby on Gwendoline Riley in @bookforum.bsky.social

Grammar of DiscontentGwendoline Riley breaks free of her phantoms – Hermione Hobywww.bookforum.com

Amit Chaudhuri speaks with Adam Biles about writing about a being writer in Paris without being clichéd; also Hemingway, not noticing, and marriage. Chaudhuri's new book, Château Rouge, named after a "vibrant" neighborhood in Paris, comes out in the US next month. @shakespeareandcompany.com

Paris, Deconstructed: Amit Chaudhuri’s Château Rouge | The Shakespeare and Company Interviewshows.acast.com

It's true. Coming out in April.

"Paul's writings give every impression of transluceny and quivering confession; she is an artist of self-exposure, of hurt and sorrow, both on the canvas and the page." —Marina Warner on Celia Paul in @lrb.co.uk We're publishing her new book, Objects of Desire, in November.

Marina Warner · Adored Image: Celia Paul’s GhostsCelia Paul’s writings give every impression of translucency and quivering confession; she is an artist of self-...www.lrb.co.uk

Next Tuesday at Rizzoli Bookstore (6pm) in NYC is the launch for The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V. R. "Bunny" Lang. Lang was the best friend of Frank O'Hara and an influential poet in the 1950s. The collection is edited by Rosa Campbell, who will be reading and speaking with Dorothea Lasky

"....a mirepoix of vignettes, urbanistic ruminations, fragmentary accounts of family life and the cautious, contingent friendships one makes when one’s not going to be living in a place for ever." On Amit Chaudhuri's latest book, Château Rouge @thespectator1828.bsky.social

An alternative Paris: Château Rouge, by Amit Chaudhuri, reviewed | The Spectator AustraliaNearly ten years ago, the author, critic and classical Indian musician Amit Chaudhuri took up a visiting fellowship in Paris.…www.spectator.com.au

If you want more on Homer and violence, we suggest Simone Weil and Rachel Besplanoff's War and the Illiad.

War and the IliadWar and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and deat...www.nyrb.com