A fabulous night with Gay Talese at the Society Library

Tonight at The Strand - join us!

I am very moved that the board of the National Book Critics Circle has chosen me to serve as our next President. It’s an incredible group at @bookcritics.bsky.social and I can't wait to get to work with them.

The Yale Review's enticing Cultural Artifacts column (yalereview.org/article/favo...), which is filled with great suggestions and moments from my colleagues, is here! I surprised myself and wrote about a video game: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Grateful to @alexanderchee.bsky.social for telling me about the late Mark Hyatt’s brilliant novel LOVE, LEDA- written pre-1967, preserved by his friends, and published last year in UK and this year in USA. It’s a hypnotic depiction of queer life in London’s SoHo, and Hyatt is a fascinating figure.

A nice treat in the mail! Totally fascinating book, and a blast to talk about it with Merve.

Wrote about the specific challenges of film adaptation, focusing on two of my favorite recent movies - Drive My Car and Burning - for the Gagosian Quarterly - alongside new work by Rachel Cusk, Amit Chaudhuri, and Sofia Coppola: gagosian.com/quarterly/is...

So honored and proud to finally be able to share this news! Major thank you to the Whiting Foundation, and major congratulations to everyone working at Guernica Magazine. Very grateful to my team in the Fiction department today.

Some of my favorite novels lately. I loved doing the launch event HANGMAN - it's terrific and Maya was a wonderful interlocutor. And TREMORS, BLACKOUTS, and I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME all felt very fresh and exciting - I'm judging fiction this year for NBCC and have much to consider!

Turned in my works cited list for my talk at NYU Paris on Monday - the reading for this was a blast

I’m in Granta Portugal! It is the first time that my work has been translated - totally thrilling