@stephen_beachy

writer @fctwo & @vcpress & @wwnorton prose editor @yivjournal books: glory hole, boneyard, some phantom/no time flat, distortion, whistling song, amish terror

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Deep Vellum is one of the best presses. Mario Bellatin is one of the most interesting writers working anywhere in the world. So I'm very excited to tell you that my translation of Mario's crazy-good novella Perpetual Law will be published by DV in '24 or '25.
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I guess we're all living through Demon Seed these days and we're all Julie Christie getting imprisoned and raped by an evil computer?
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My thought exactly
Bodie Satva
@themopinomiconOct 24
If physical reality is a reflection of the spiritual realms above what the actual fuck is going on up there
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You will want this book
Alvin Lu@alvinluOct 20
First sighting, with live preorder button. uapress.ua.edu/9781573662352…
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Didn’t know poisoning the wells meant “throwing typhoid and dysentery microbes into the water” From UNGROUNDING by Eyal Weizman
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stephen beachy retweeted
Alvin Lu@alvinluOct 18
Hey, there's a copy of the 1st edition hardcover of The Hell Screens for eight bucks at Mercer Street Books & Records in NYC.
Alvin Lu@alvinluOct 16
Thanks to the brilliant Vincent Czyz for uncovering this unjustly forgotten (unjust because it’s by me) classic and Philip Gambone’s rave in NYTBR too, which compares me to Borges, Calvino, and Nabokov, which is correct, but did not change my life.
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"We own nothing but what's inside. It's the middle of the night in here," he said, pointing to his chest. This is what we own: our thoughts, orange and sickly. You feed it nothing but sorrow and it grows and stars come out and you are the King of your own Island of Night!
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The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovic
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You have to think of it like Hollywood Squares but instead of Paul Lynde it's Wilson Harris in the middle saying "Those secrets do suggest immaterial and untamable foundations to the cosmos or to a universe composed of fabrics of mobility akin to thought ...
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Clarice Lispector's biographer and translator telling it like it is.
Drop Site
@DropSiteNewsOct 8
⭕️ Benjamin Moser, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and author of "Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History" agreed with the New York Times' main criticism of his new book on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Wednesday. The Times review said the book "paints a fraught world in black and white" and casts Israelis and Palestinians as "evil perpetrator and a virtuous victim." "Absolutely correct," said Moser. "I do think it's black and white… There's a colonizer and there's a colonized. There is a victim and there is a [perpetrator].”
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One of the 20th century's great novels
🎃 herbert von carrion 👻@ragandboneshopSep 26
classic of 20C persian lit; unreliable narrator par excellence, with a wonderful sense of mise-en-abîme, a kind of möbius-strip of a narrative in which hallucinatory, opium-mediated events, characters, phrases recur and recur. a great discovery.
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"There is no warning of daylight here. It is strange to know that it is only twenty miles to the Gulf of Mexico and all that dizzying impossible white light, for here there is such darkness..."
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In 1974 this novel was a finalist for a National Book Award. State of Grace.
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Where's that video with the Ed Sheeran impersonator who sings "now my bedsheets smell like Netanyahu"? That was my favorite but now I can't find it.
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I think there's an exception to the boo, but I sure can't find it on my shelf.
Alvin Lu@alvinluSep 15
Replying to @lalavin666
Boo to novels about a writer working on a novel but yay to novels about a novel writing itself
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Sheeran is a greedy cowardly empty & corrupt man. I enjoy the art of many bad or even evil people and will continue to do so. If you enjoy his music for whatever reason, go on and do so, just don't tell yourself that part of the appeal is that he's a good guy.
Mukhtar
@I_amMukhtarSep 15
Ed Sheeran released a statement. "I am appalled by the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The suffering and pain caused on both sides is a human tragedy. There are too many wars across the world causing immeasurable pain, none of which should be tolerated." 🧵👇🏾
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Having just read through over 400 pieces of prose in the submissions, my only general advice for all writers anywhere in 2026 is to avoid the verb "to thrum" in all of its forms.
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holy shit
Variety
@VarietySep 1
Mark Ruffalo Defended by Hannah Einbinder, Joel Coen and More Than 170 Jewish Figures After Paramount Accuses Him of Using 'Antisemitic Tropes' -- Read the Open Letter ... variety.com/2026/film/global…

Mark Ruffalo Defended by Joaquin Phoenix, Hannah Einbinder and More Than 180 Jewish Figures After...

Joel Coen and Todd Haynes are among more than 170 Jewish figures who have signed a letter in support of Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism claims.

variety.com
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I would like to counter Ottessa with Urszula:
Max Lawton@maxdaniellawtonAug 30
Ottessa is a queen
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Nobody wants to be a dull moralist, but she's ultimately still giving literature an ethical function, to "expand consciousness" and to "help us understand ourselves." Most everyone does; without it, the amoral playground of lit quickly becomes indistinguishable from a video game.
Max Lawton@maxdaniellawtonAug 30
Ottessa is a queen
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