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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 7h

Edward Mendelson & Francesca Wade will be discussing the writing, correcting, and reading of Mrs. Dalloway, first published 100 years ago (though the accurate text has only just come out from yours truly), TONIGHT 7pm at @bookculture.com (536 W. 112th, NYC)

See you in the Upper West Side.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 15h

Tonight at 7 pm! Edward Mendelson discusses his book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social with Francesca Wade at @bookculture.com bit.ly/42i0NCv. @columbiaup.bsky.social

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!

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The Arts Fuse @theartsfuse.bsky.social · 1d

If, as a commemorative volume, "Fifty Poems" invites readers to sample the German poet #rainermariarilke more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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Book Review: "Fifty Poems" - An Offering on the Altar of Rainer Maria Rilke - The Arts Fuse

If, as a commemorative volume, "Fifty Poems" introduces readers to sample the German poet more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have acc...

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 2d

Diane DiMassa won't be able to attend the event tonight.

New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 2d

Diane DiMassa, mother of Hothead Paisan, is in Boston tonight (7pm) at Boston Figurative Arts Center (285 Washington St., Somerville).

The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage.

www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...

@bostoncomicarts.bsky.social

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 2d

read the interview between Diane and Jay Graham.

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 2d

"Hothead Paisan remains perhaps the most iconic of all the underground queer comics from the nineties."

Jo Livingstone on Diane DiMassa and Hothead Paisan, recently published by NYR Comics.

The Violent, Hilarious Return of “Hothead Paisan”

Diane DiMassa’s “homicidal lesbian terrorist” was a star of underground comics in the nineties, but her “rage therapy” has lost none of its edge.

www.newyorker.com

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 2d

Diane DiMassa, mother of Hothead Paisan, is in Boston tonight (7pm) at Boston Figurative Arts Center (285 Washington St., Somerville).

The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage.

www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail...

@bostoncomicarts.bsky.social

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 3d

This Wednesday (10/8) at 7 pm! Edward Mendelson discusses his book, THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Virginia Woolf's novel from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social with Francesca Wade at @bookculture.com
bit.ly/42i0NCv. @columbiaup.bsky.social

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 2d

The first translation of Siegfried Kracauer's "harrowing and hilarious" WWI novel, Ginster, comes out tomorrow. No battles for Ginster, stages his own minor acts of resistance far from the front.

A Lost World War I Classic Returns, as Relevant as Ever

www.nytimes.com

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Book Post @bookpostusa.bsky.social · 5d

John Banville’s latest novel, Venetian Vespers, will be released by Knopf (@aaknopf.bsky.social) on Tuesday!

Check out his recent Book Post review of The Forbidden Experiment by Roger Shattuck (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social) on our site → books.substack.com/p/review-joh...

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One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social · 5d

Episode 39 is live, and it might be one of our best!
We discuss Leonora Carrington's singular THE STONE DOOR--and never has our love for each other been more tested!
onebrightbook.com/2025/10/03/e...

Episode 39: The Stone Door

Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss THE STONE DOOR by Leonora Carrington, and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we wil…

onebrightbook.com

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no we've missed Kang Seung Lee's Mask, video art wwith text from Robert Glück's book About Ed. It was up at Alexander Gray Associates in NYC over the summer. Keep your eyes open for future exhibits

Kang Seung Lee

Katherine Rochester reviews Kang Seung Lee at Alexander Gray Associates highlighting the artist’s approach to loss, mourning, and commemorating queer communities.

www.artforum.com

New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 5d

Philadelphia,

Philly Comics Expo is tomorrow (10-6) in the Old Pine Community Center (410 Lombard St S).

NYR Comics is tabling and Diane DiMassa has an event ("Still Homicidal After All These Years") at 2:30 and will be signing at 4.

partnersandson.com/pages/philly...

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 6d

Vincenzo Latronico has won the inaugural @airmail.news Tom Wolfe Prize for Fiction. Congrats Vincenzo and the translator of his novel, Perfection, Sophie Hughes!

Vincenzo will be doing an event at McNally Jackson Seaport (4 Fulton St., NYC) with @tonytula.com on 10/16. Starts at 7pm.

The AIR MAIL Tom Wolfe Prizes for Fiction & Reportage, Presented by Montblanc

Two of the most promising young authors of 2025 will each get an honorarium of $10,000 and a celebratory dinner at the Waverly Inn.

airmail.news

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Poets House @poetshouse.bsky.social · 8d

Please join us for an illuminating sunset ferry voyage down the Hudson River with readings and musical performances by acclaimed musician and poet Haleh Liza Gafori of her newly published translations from the Farsi of Rumi, Water (New York Review Books, 2025) on Friday, October 10th!

Poets House
Epic Voices
A Voyage on the Hudson
with
Haleh Liza Gafori
Nick Flynn & Laleh Javaheri Saatchi
Friday, October 10th at 5:45 PM ET
Brookfield Place Ferry Terminal

Haleh Liza Gafori

Book Image of "Water" by Rumi

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 8d

Tonight! Should be a good conversation.

Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 10d

On Tuesday at 7 at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, Edward Mendelson will talk with Sarah Cole about his new book THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of the novel, which he edited. tinyurl.com/26r9ma3t @columbiaup.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @communitybookstore.bsky.social

Edward Mendelson presents Mrs. Dalloway: The First-Edition Text, in conversation with Sarah Cole | Community Bookstore

Brooklyn's oldest operating bookstore. Serving Park Slope since 1971.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow at 7 pm at @communitybookstore.bsky.social in Brooklyn, Edward Mendelson will talk with Sarah Cole about his new book THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY and the new edition of Woolf's novel, published by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/26r9ma3t
@columbiaup.bsky.social

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 12d

PSSST. In advance of Tuesday's pub day, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is having a quick sale on our two fall titles: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin and THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez trans. by Alex Niemi!

Hurry! Two more days! www.nyrb.com/collections/...

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 12d

Tomorrow at Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch (Grand Army Plaza) our executive editor Sara Kramer leads a discussion on/celebration of Tove Jansson.

Begins at 2pm.

Small Jewels of Prose - A Celebration of the Work of Tove Jansson | Brooklyn Public Library

Join us to celebrate the final weekend of Tove Jansson & The Moomins: The Door is Always Open with a panel discussion including prominent Tove Jansson experts and admirers. Panelists Dasha Tolstikova,...

www.bklynlibrary.org

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 12d

"In the eyes of most Chinese readers, she is the most important female author to date—a similar stature to, say, Virginia Woolf in the English-speaking world, the difference being that China never had a Jane Austen or an Emily Brontë."

Zhang Yueran on Eileen Chang's Little Reunions.

What You Know Most Deeply: On Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions by Zhang Yueran

September 26, 2025 – “ ‘Little Reunions ought to be burned,’ Eileen Chang wrote to her friend and literary executor, Stephen Soong, in 1976, the year she finished what would be her last novel.”

www.theparisreview.org

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13d

It's long but good. Our publicist Nick During was on the Big Book Project to discuss Henrik Pontoppidan's A Fortunate Man in Paul Larkin's translation.

A Fortunate Man: Henrik Pontoppidan’s Masterwork with Nick During (NYRB)

YouTube video by The Big Book Project

www.youtube.com

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13d

Tonight in Hartford!

New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 14d

Diane DiMassa event in Hartford, CT at Real Art Ways TOMORROW (9/25; 6:30pm) speaking with @alexdueben.bsky.social about Hothead Paisan.

www.realartways.org/event/hothea...

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13d

Corey Robin recommends Peter Cole's new translation of Hayim Nahman Bialik's poetry on the @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Show. The collection, On the Slaughter, comes out Oct 14. Go to 1:30 to hear Corey on Bialik, who wrote in Hebrew.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEEH...

Trump Is Building the Blue Scare | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 14d

"One wonders how Perec’s Jérôme and Sylvie might have responded to the upheavals of May 68. Latronico powerfully leaves us with little to imagine."

Gregory Jones-Katz on Vincenzo Latronico's "Perfection" @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

clereviewofbooks.com/perfection-v...

Remote Controlled: On “Perfection” by Vincenzo Latronico - Cleveland Review of Books

With its narrative of the vicissitudes of the pair’s lives, Perfection distills countless analyses of the spiritual, historical, and political void into which capitalism has thrown life.

clereviewofbooks.com

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