Thank you! Happy to be in such wonderful company. Hope you enjoy the book
Thank you! Happy to be in such wonderful company. Hope you enjoy the book
NYC haul
March and April reads
Indie bookstore day picks
January and February reads
"'If you leave now, I'll kill us both,' she said."
In this week's miCRo, @babaklak considers the reverberations of violence across space and time.
https://buff.ly/3CnLVZu
The cover for βFloating Notesβ by Babak Lakghomi which features overlapping dark and light blue triangular shapes resembling mountains or waves.
Took a break from Solenoid last night/today and read @babaklak.bsky.socialβs Floating Notes which was great.
A new story up at the new literary magazine Terrazzo! Thanks to Gina Nutt
www.terrazzoeditions.com/terrazzomag/...
Favourite 2024 reads
In five days! Iβll be reading with some greats! @ambersparks.bsky.social @babaklak.bsky.social
Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.π€
www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
Read poet and organizer Jody Chanβs Giller Prize boycott speech: βHere, today, we throw our labour into the gears of the death machine.β
Forgive me for being late to and so continuing this trend. I really love these people, though (as well as many more of you whom it won't let me add)!
go.bsky.app/E1svDV8
Happy Birthday!!
A picture of a page at the end of an edition of Forever Valley by Marie Redonnet (translated by Jordan Stump). Thereβs an interview at the end of the book.
This is an interview with Marie Redonnet that appears at the end of this edition of Forever Valley (translated by Jordan Stump/UNP edition). In particular Iβm drawn to:
ββ¦a poetic power make visible that which has been neither described nor expressed by metaphor, but rather only evoked.β
From William Saroyanβs intro to his My Name is Aram
so far i like this place b/c it is gentle & nerdy β€οΈ imagine a social media site where ppl are just talking about books.
Next books to read
Very much looking forward to it
Never intro'd self or announced my novel before, so why not. Novelist, book reviewer. Wrote a Taiwanese folk-horror novel, The Hell Screens. Second novel Daydreamers (see below) comes out July 2025 from Fiction Collective 2. There is a 25-year gap betweeen the two, which must be some kind of record.
join us in boycotting the giller until they drop sponsors complicit in genocide! www.canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller
Issue 8 of Unbeaten Paths is now available.
Reviewed in this issue:
James Elkins, Weak in Comparison to Dreams
John Madera, Nervosities
Christina Tudor-Sideri (@dreamsofbeing.bsky.social) Schism Blue
Babak Lakghomi (@babakl.bsky.social) South
danielgreen.substack.com/p/issue-eigh...
A new story up at R&R Magazine! www.relegationbooks.com/article/litt...
10 out of 10 if you like hallucinating while reading a book
@babakl.bsky.social
Thanks for reading it!
Thank you, @babakl.bsky.social , and thank you, staff, wherever you are, for choosing BOX and SOUTH. ππ¦
Favourite 2023 reads!
Good mail day @babakl.bsky.social