Stephen Delaney
@stephendelaney.bsky.social
Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, Euphony, pacificREVIEW, SoFloPoJo, and elsewhere. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
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Happy pub day to The Pelican Child by Joy Williams! To celebrate, we’ve unlocked her Book Post Diary: Hemingway and His Houses.
Read here → books.substack.com/p/diary-joy-...
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Read here → books.substack.com/p/diary-joy-...
@aaknopf.bsky.social #EduSky #Books
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Happy pub day to The Pelican Child by Joy Williams! To celebrate, we’ve unlocked her Book Post Diary: Hemingway and His Houses.
Read here → books.substack.com/p/diary-joy-...
@aaknopf.bsky.social #EduSky #Books
Read here → books.substack.com/p/diary-joy-...
@aaknopf.bsky.social #EduSky #Books
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Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood review – the great novelist reveals her hidden side
Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood review – the great novelist reveals her hidden side
A sharp, funny and engaging autobiography from one of the towering literary figures of our age
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood review – the great novelist reveals her hidden side
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In @literaryhub.bsky.social, @devintoshea.bsky.social describes how movies are popularizing the classic #Pynchon theme: "The war between the powerful and the powerless."
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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time
Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…
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October 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In @literaryhub.bsky.social, @devintoshea.bsky.social describes how movies are popularizing the classic #Pynchon theme: "The war between the powerful and the powerless."
lithub.com/thomas-pynch...
lithub.com/thomas-pynch...
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Read Charles Baxter on the literature and politics of charisma. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/f...
The Flag of Ahab | Charles Baxter
On the literature and politics of charisma.
www.laphamsquarterly.org
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Read Charles Baxter on the literature and politics of charisma. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/f...
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In a new review, Caterina Domeneghini studies a surge in translation to English of the work of Dino Buzzati. “This new translation project doesn’t just revive Buzzati,” she argues, “it reframes him.”
Betwixt or Bewitched? Rethinking the “Middlebrow” with Dino Buzzati
Reframed as a “bewitched middlebrow,” Buzzati’s fiction re-enters literary history not as a comforting escape, but as a sharp tool for existential inquiry.
www.publicbooks.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In a new review, Caterina Domeneghini studies a surge in translation to English of the work of Dino Buzzati. “This new translation project doesn’t just revive Buzzati,” she argues, “it reframes him.”
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the weight of stillness, the power of white space
Photo by Filip Kominik on Unsplash
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September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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“She became fascinated with how human beings—especially those who didn’t have much power—could empower themselves and others and change the world.” What Octavia Butler’s early writings reveal about her trajectory as a literary icon.
Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer
It was Octavia Margaret who gave her daughter the spark to even consider a writing career. She saw her quiet, bookish ten-year-old daughter writing, saw the delight on her face as she created, and …
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August 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“She became fascinated with how human beings—especially those who didn’t have much power—could empower themselves and others and change the world.” What Octavia Butler’s early writings reveal about her trajectory as a literary icon.
August 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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How to respond to disgruntled readers.
July 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
How to respond to disgruntled readers.
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Heavy Feather Review's Where to Submit resource (updated for July 2025) is invaluable and full of presses, journals, and sites open for submissions.
heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/
heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/
Where to Submit
Presses | Chapbooks | Journals + Anthologies | Fellowships + Other Opportunities Last updated July 3, 2025 If you are an editor or publisher and would like your journal, press, or literary organiza…
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July 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Heavy Feather Review's Where to Submit resource (updated for July 2025) is invaluable and full of presses, journals, and sites open for submissions.
heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/
heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/
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“One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain - rigor and recklessness - simultaneously.”
- Carole Maso
- Carole Maso
June 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain - rigor and recklessness - simultaneously.”
- Carole Maso
- Carole Maso
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Thrilled to announce Canongate will be publishing
WORDS ARE MY MATTER by Pulitzer Prize winner by Ursula K. Le Guin. A manual investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction.
canongate.co.uk/news/canonga...
WORDS ARE MY MATTER by Pulitzer Prize winner by Ursula K. Le Guin. A manual investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction.
canongate.co.uk/news/canonga...
CANONGATE TO PUBLISH URSULA K. LE GUIN’S SELECTED WRITING ON LITERATURE
CANONGATE TO PUBLISH URSULA K. LE GUIN’S SELECTED WRITING ON LITERATURE
canongate.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Thrilled to announce Canongate will be publishing
WORDS ARE MY MATTER by Pulitzer Prize winner by Ursula K. Le Guin. A manual investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction.
canongate.co.uk/news/canonga...
WORDS ARE MY MATTER by Pulitzer Prize winner by Ursula K. Le Guin. A manual investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction.
canongate.co.uk/news/canonga...
June 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I like to keep an open book by my sink every morning. (Poetry and flash fiction work best.) It puts me in a better mood and keeps the world at bay.
#booksky
#booksky
May 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I like to keep an open book by my sink every morning. (Poetry and flash fiction work best.) It puts me in a better mood and keeps the world at bay.
#booksky
#booksky
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After 20 years, Kazuo Ishiguro reflects on the decades-long process behind Never Let Me Go.
Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later
While I’d been busy writing my fourth and fifth novels, my study had mysteriously transformed itself around me into a kind of miniature indoor jungle. Everywhere were dusty mountains of scribbled-o…
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May 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
After 20 years, Kazuo Ishiguro reflects on the decades-long process behind Never Let Me Go.
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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
—Shirley Jackson
—Shirley Jackson
April 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
—Shirley Jackson
—Shirley Jackson
It's interesting when a writer's voice is so strong that the question is less "What will happen next?" than "Where will this writer's mind take me?"
#booksky
#booksky
April 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It's interesting when a writer's voice is so strong that the question is less "What will happen next?" than "Where will this writer's mind take me?"
#booksky
#booksky
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"For all the challenges her work poses, Lispector is a very accessible writer: her prose is as welcoming, embracing, inviting as it is ethereal, sly, strange." Sarah McEachern reviews Clarice Lispector's "Covert Joy: Selected Stories." lareviewofbooks.org/article/at-t...
At the Point of the Sword, Magic | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sarah McEachern reviews Clarice Lispector’s “Covert Joy: Selected Stories.”
lareviewofbooks.org
April 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"For all the challenges her work poses, Lispector is a very accessible writer: her prose is as welcoming, embracing, inviting as it is ethereal, sly, strange." Sarah McEachern reviews Clarice Lispector's "Covert Joy: Selected Stories." lareviewofbooks.org/article/at-t...