Anne Carson en el #CCCB en Barcelona, entrevistada por la querida @valeriemiles.bsky.social

I’ll be in conversation with Anne Carson on Monday, in Barcelona. She will perform “By Chance the Cycladic People” and “Possessive Used as Drink (Me) A Lecture on Pronouns”, w/ visual artists James Merry and Robert Currie and dancer Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir. And we have a little surprise planned...

«¿Lo políticamente correcto? No tiene ningún lugar en la literatura. Una buena novela te agarra por las solapas, a veces por el cuello, por los pelos… pero siempre te obliga a sentir y a pensar.»

Una entrevista de @carmendomingo.bsky.social a
@valeriemiles.bsky.social.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada has come to see President Trump’s “51st state” talk as part of an aggressive strategy to take over his country.

@aoc.bsky.social The best protest tonight is to be present, but all of you standing and with your backs turned.

La nueva y fascinante aproximación a la figura del autor chileno a cargo de @valeriemiles.bsky.social. Lo cuenta hoy @laragomez93.bsky.social en @lavanguardia.com www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/2025...

¿Se puede leer a un escritor de forma radicalmente distinta a como se ha hecho hasta ahora? En el caso de Roberto Bolaño, la editora Valerie Miles asegura que sí y propone una nueva vía de estudio: los ojos 👀
www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/2025... @valeriemiles.bsky.social @lavanguardia.com

To friends and acquaintances past, present, and future: “Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.” -Susan Sontag

Swish!

My conversation with Olga Tokarczuk here in English translation, on her time as a Writing the Prado Fellow, the use of image in her novels, and a few of her favourite paintings. @museodelprado.es @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social

Bartleby the cat prefers Patinir.

@grantaesp.bsky.social Amazing species of orchid found in Peru and Colombia. Nabokov would approve… nature showing its playful, trickster side. 🦋

So grateful to the Southwest Review for awarding my essay “The Telepathy of Bolaño’s Archive. At the Surface of the Visible” their McGinnis Ritchie Award for non-fiction. 🍀📚🍾🥂 @southwestreview.bsky.social

Fond memories of John Maxwell Coetzee’s time at the Prado as our first Writing the Prado Fellow. Here with the museum’s director Miguel Falomir, and Sheila Loewe of the Loewe Foundation, the program’s sponsor. @museodelprado.es @grantaesp.bsky.social

Front and center!

Well hel-lo Blue Sky! 💕 🦋@bsky.app

A quick visit to the #BritishMuseum to see my old friend Artemidorus once again and introduce him to another friend, Chloe Aridjis. And there the ghostly photo… 🕯️

Gorgeous #Bookerprize2024 ceremony, here with Sheila Loewe @Loewe Foundation, jury chair Edmund de Waal, and Alan Hollinghurst. Congratulations to Samantha Harvey for winning with Orbital, and to her readers, past, present and future. 📚🍾🥂

Thanks Nick Casey and @nytimes.com for the in-depth piece on our Writing the Prado Fellowship –exploring imagination in fiction and painting– and Fellows J.M. Coetzee, Olga Tokarczuk, Chloe Aridjis, John Banville. @museodelprado.bsky.social #art #literature @grantamag.bsky.social #loewefoundation