look, when the legendary City Lights asks to record a conversation about close reading, you respond “yes, I’ll hide upstairs in a room in my parents‘ house, put on a clean shirt, and talk a lot with my hands!!!” join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!

Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 11mo ago

City Lights has long been a beacon of bookishness for me. It was a thrill to do CITY LIGHTS LIVE!: a conversation about close reading with Yael Segalovitz and my co-editor on Close Reading for the 21C, @johannawinant.bsky.social moderated by @samantharhill.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZ0...

I will always repost Bread and Puppet content

wendy cloudberry@wendycloudberry.com · 12mo ago

The entire Bread and Puppet performance was right on time but this is the skit that I keep thinking about the most. I was slow to start recording - others have posted more complete recordings - but I did manage to catch the Spanish chorus:

It’s been a long while! Empyrean Series nos. 46–50 are announced & available for preorder as of today. Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring. asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...

It’s all fun and games until your four-year-old reveals the face of her imaginary friend.

Little poems everywhere, in Wittgenstein, for those with eyes to see

in the mornings you can feel the anxiety machine starting up

Guys, he’s back

Alright, it’s got a cover and a pub date and can be yours for four interest-free payments of $4.75 via Klarna, for some reason! www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...

There’s a guy running for city council here on the slogan: “Empathy with restraint.”

Niche request, I know, but I’d be grateful for any info on the best Francophone bookstores, used and new, in Montreal . . . particularly shops with good film sections . . .

Vermont / New Hampshire

Oh man, July’s almost over, better get started on lesson planning so that I’m 100% prepared for my first day of classes at the

New entry at the Ruiz Diaries. ruizdiaries.substack.com This Friday it's Ruiz's birthday. I'm not sure what to do or if I'll be able to do anything for it. Hope you enjoy.

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Whoever’s kid did this to my copy of Nicanor Parra was channeling Caspar David Friedrich

Mourning Fanny Howe this afternoon—please go read Night Philosophy, and One Crossed Out, and The Needle’s Eye, and everything, everything.

Dustin@theunread.bsky.social · last yr.

I of course recommend people buy all Fanny Howe they can get their hands on, chiefly through the vital work of Nightboat, but also this beautiful book out with Divider.

Just noticed that on the world map above the door to Harvard’s Yenching Library / East Asian Civilizations building, East Asia is basically invisible. What Could This Possibly Mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

There’s your problem right there