#finished THE ADVERSARY, Emanuel Carrère

#finished Thomas Mann, DEATH IN VENICE AND OTHER STORIES

#finished Ben Lerner’s LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION (reread)

#finished Herman Melville, MOBY DICK

“In this garden our task has been to witness the fleet and unmelodious ghost called Liberty, but tomorrow we must allow that ambition to gently recede - as a rhythm deferred - and leaning, pluck lust from the pistilate heart.” —Lisa Robertson

#finished XEclogue by Lisa Robertson (New Star Books)

#finished WAVE OF BLOOD by Ariana Reines (Divided Publishing)

The “backlash” against “autofiction” will be led by people who never understood the “genre” as anything but a “buzzword”—by people who never understood why it arose, and what it meant in those cultural contexts, but who will nonetheless feel the “need” to “transcend” it.

#finished STONER by John Williams

Just #finished China Miéville’s OCTOBER (Verso, 2017)—auspicious!

#Finished Jed Munson’s VISION SANS SERAPHIM (Beautiful Days Press, 2025)

#finished Helen DeWitt’s THE LAST SAMURAI

Cool that many of the all-time greatest artworks are mostly encountered thru a fog of severe jetlag

#finished BE EASY, Adrian Matejka (Liveright)

#finished NIGHT OWL, Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Ecco)

#finished THE CODIFIED PROPHET (Inpatient) by Yasmina Hashemi

Three new poems up now in COMA. www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...

Three Poems — Community Mausoleum

there would be a respectable inefficiency, renaming every iota of experience “windfall number x,” etc., a trophy wanting

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My chapbook AION’S RIBBON is out now from Inpatient Press. Here‘s a little essay I wrote about it on my blog. You can get the book at inpatientpress.bigcartel.com.

#finished Ben Lerner’s TRANSCRIPTION

Really nice interview series w/ downtown NYC poets c. 1966.

#finished Tove Ditlevsen’s DEPENDENCY

#finished Tove Ditlevsen’s YOUTH.

I can’t seem to smell good today

#Finished CHILDHOOD by Tove Ditlevsen

#Finished Marios Chakkas’s THE COMMUNE (Inpatient Press, 2024), which is unrelentingly bleak and devilishly funny. Like this year’s Sirāt and The Secret Agent, it captures the doomed, absurd logic of fascist censure (except it’s nonfiction—sort of).

There are so few things I think should be illegal but the Dodgers / Yankees split ballcap is one of them.

Also #finished Michael Martin Shea’s I’M SORRY BUT NONE OF THIS IS MY FAULT (Essay Press).

AWP Amtrak reading. #finished Sentiment by Kai Ihns (blush lit / illicit zines). Hugely liked.

#Finished Bob Glück’s JACK THE MODERNIST (NYRB Classics reissue). The prose hefts the paratactic pleasures of contemporary poetry and LANGUAGE-adjacent compositional tactics in a tender, campy, porny, gossipy love letter that will make you cry yourself into existence. (If you don’t, just give up).

Tonight #finished Thomas Bernhard’s WOODCUTTERS and truly I can say that I enjoyed every word of it.