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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · 23d

Tonight!!

Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · 24d

Tomorrow! I’ll be asking Eimear McBride some questions about her wonderful new novel, The City Changes Its Face, at McNally Jackson Seaport starting at 7 p.m.—hope to see you there! www.mcnallyjackson.com/eimear-mcbri...

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · 24d

Tomorrow! I’ll be asking Eimear McBride some questions about her wonderful new novel, The City Changes Its Face, at McNally Jackson Seaport starting at 7 p.m.—hope to see you there! www.mcnallyjackson.com/eimear-mcbri...

www.mcnallyjackson.com

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Sep 9

For the fall issue of Kinfolk, I interviewed Vincenzo Latronico about the process of writing Perfection, the influence of Georges Perec on his work, what it’s like to be translated as a translator, and more: www.kinfolk.com/stories/on-t...

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Sep 8

For the Poetry Foundation, I wrote about the Chinese poet Zheng Xiaoqiong’s incredible collection In the Roar of the Machine, translated by Eleanor Goodman and published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, and the work of Chinese migrant worker poets. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/172...

Bodies on the Line

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Aug 19

For @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about Lara Mimosa Montes’s excellent ‘The Time of the Novel,’ and the book’s porous boundary between reality and fiction: clereviewofbooks.com/inside-out-o...

Inside Out: On Lara Mimosa Montes’s “The Time of the Novel” - Cleveland Review of Books

In "The Time of the Novel", these anxieties concerning what constitutes the real versus the fictional are pushed to their logical extreme: a young woman quits her bookstore job in order to instead, sh...

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Aug 19

For @electricliterature.com, I interviewed Rosalind Belben in anticipation of the rerelease of her seductively strange 1979 novel ‘Dreaming of Dead People’ this month from @andotherstories.bsky.social: electricliterature.com/rosalind-bel...

Rosalind Belben Reflects on the Foreplay of Wordplay - Electric Literature

The author of “Dreaming of Dead People” discusses sexuality, double standards in art, and the vicissitudes of literary publishing

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Jul 16

Wrote a bit about Marlen Haushofer’s ecofeminist classic The Wall on my newsletter phrasebooks.substack.com/p/returning-...

Returning to The Wall

On Marlen Haushofer’s ecofeminist classic.

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Jul 2

Wrote briefly about the crowds I’ve been surrounded by the last few weeks—political crowds, crowds of tourists, parties— phrasebooks.substack.com/p/the-crowd

The Crowd

There is always a moment, when standing in a crowd, in which the press of bodies turns diffuse, oddly amorphous; the individual obscured by this mass of flesh.

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Jun 25

For the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about Caleb Femi’s panoramic poetry collection from earlier this year, The Wickedest, and writing about parties: lareviewofbooks.org/article/my-d...

My Direct Debits Hit at Midnight | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rhian Sasseen considers party-writing in Caleb Femi’s latest poetry collection, “The Wickedest.”

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · May 23

Next Wednesday, May 28th! Come by Bar Jade in Bushwick at 7 p.m. for another reading organized by Kate Peters and me! Featuring work by:

- Jenna Klorfein
- Ismail Muhammad
- Alex Wolfe
- Rob Rubsam (@robrubsam.bsky.social)

See you there!! partiful.com/e/LhcoSXdMXe...?

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · May 19

For @thebaffler.com, I wrote about Mathias Énard’s incredible new novel, The Deserters, the end of the twentieth century, and time repeating itself both in fiction and in real life: thebaffler.com/latest/the-t...

The Time of Return | Rhian Sasseen

In Mathias Énard’s “The Deserters,” history has a way of repeating itself.

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · May 18

I will be reading from the new novel at Bushwick's Bar Jade on Wednesday, May 28th. Many thanks to @rhiansasseen.bsky.social for inviting me to read alongside some truly fantastic people, and to try out what I've been writing these past months.

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Apr 21

I wrote a newsletter about the Portuguese artist Helena Almeida, her use of the color blue, and the words “listen to me” phrasebooks.substack.com/p/i-turn-mys...

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Apr 17

For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about Claire Baglin’s new novel On the Clock, a book that dares to take mundane work seriously www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

What Does the Literature of the Working Class Look Like?

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Apr 9

Got the inaugural issue of @fallowmedia.bsky.social in the mail a few days ago, and it’s beautiful — plus, I’ve got an essay in it on the work of the Polish photographer Joanna Piotrowska in it

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maija @maijasofia.bsky.social · Mar 18

Announcing issue 1 of fallow, a new literary journal, featuring new work by @evagriff.bsky.social @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social Oisin Fagan, Ellen Dillon, Gabriel Josipivici, Helen Charman, Chris Beausang, Pascale Sardin @rhiansasseen.bsky.social & Patrick Nathan

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Mar 10

Some of you might recall that I used to have a newsletter called phrase books, mostly about literature and art mostly in translation. After ignoring it for, oh, two or three years, I'm bringing it back. This new one is about Christian Marclay's The Clock and more: open.substack.com/pub/phrasebo...

the return of phrase books

On Christian Marclay’s The Clock and Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Mar 6

Rereading Georgi Gospodinov’s excellent, relevant Time Shelter (translated by Angela Rodel)

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Mar 1

“It Is March,” W. S. Merwin

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Smith & Taylor Classics @sandtclassics.bsky.social · Feb 26

Edith Wharton's TWILIGHT SLEEP returns to the THE ATLANTIC in all her glory. 🥂 Thank you @rhiansasseen.bsky.social!
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Six Older Books That Deserve to Be Popular Today

In recent years, these titles have found themselves justifiably rescued from oblivion.

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Feb 25

Solvej Balle! Anne Serre! They are so, so good.

I wrote about On the Calculation of Volume for
@theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

And for
@thepointmag.bsky.social I once wrote about some earlier works of Anne Serre’s translated into English: thepointmag.com/criticism/a-...

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Feb 25

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.

Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Feb 24

Wrote a fun round-up for @theatlantic.com of reissues that deserve to be rediscovered, with work by Hermann Ungar, Nettie Jones, Jacqueline Harpman, and more www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Six Books That Deserve a Second Life

In recent years, these titles have found themselves justifiably rescued from oblivion.

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Jan 29

TONIGHT!!

WISH YOU WERE HERE reading series 7pm at Bar Jade in Bushwick!

Featuring:
Elina Alter
Kate Peters
Walker Rutter-Bowman
Noor Qasim
And me!

See you there!!

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Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Jan 22

One week from today!! Come by!

Rhian Sasseen @rhiansasseen.bsky.social · Jan 13

My friend Kate and I have another evening of our WISH YOU WERE HERE reading series coming up on Wednesday, January 29, at 7 pm at Bar Jade in Bushwick!

Featuring:
Elina Alter
Kate Peters
Walker Rutter-Bowman
Noor Qasim
And me!

See you there??

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