Did a double take.

Russell Hoban once posted to his own fan forum under the subject line “CULTURE ALERT” that this film was on TV.

Now that's an achievement.

Aidan Koch going on tour for Spiral and Other Stories. First up, Oakland at Clio's (353 Grand Ave.) this Monday, with Mara Ramirez.

Michael Lipkin will be reading, his own writing and his translation from Walter Kempowski's An Ordinary Youth, at tonight's Us & Them at Molasses Bookstore.

“I say that if the poet has pursued a moral end, he has diminished his poetical power.' — Baudelaire 🖤 4columns.org/dery-mark/flow…

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Bloomington, Indiana - three talks on Monday 22nd April. I will give one at the music department at 1.15 pm; Rosinka delivers the Brangin Lecture at 3; and I have a talk hosted by Creative Writing and others at 5.30. All welcome.

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In NYC tonight (6pm), Rachel Cohen speaks with Dr. Natalie Dykstra about Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner at the Leon Levy Center for Biography (CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave.).

Excellent subject promises lively talk.

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Darryl Pinckney on the abundance, eclecticism, and virtuosity of the Harlem Renaissance go.nybooks.com/3Q6PRRW

Today is a busy one for literary events in New Haven.

Józef Czapski uncovered the USSR's crimes against Polish soldiers in WWII (An Inhuman Land), wrote about his time in a POW camp (Memoirs of Starobielsk), & while there gave lectures on Proust (Lost Time).

Unburied Books NYRB Classics The Republic of Bad Taste A great favorite! I always loved the description on the old Doubleday cover;

“When his brows were furrowed, his whole head looked like a walnut. And his brains were like walnut meat—sweet, slightly moist, and in the end, very bland.” (p240) #NYRBWomen24

1.5 hours away. Head over to Boylston Hall.

“During the Reign of the Queen of Persia is a Norman Rockwell painting gone bad, the underside of the idyllic hometown, main-street, down-on-the-farm dream of Middle America.”
—Margaret Atwood, The New York Times archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…

'How, at the tender age of 75, does one suddenly write a masterpiece?' Sarah McClung writes about the career of Barbara Comyns and about her late novel The Juniper Tree. lithub.com/the-literary-o…

“What Chaudhuri best demonstrates in these early works are his formidable abilities as a storyteller.”

Anushka Joshi reviews three novels by Amit Chaudhuri. (NYRB Classics Books at NYRB)

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