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Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach
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In the Suavity of the Rock (novel)with
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The twelfth issue of Socrates on the Beach is live. Thank you to the authors and the translator and those who helped with the issue. socratesonthebeach.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
From Issue 11 of Socrates. The first line is the lifeblood of most pieces...anywhere. These lines all grabbed me from the first and I knew I had to follow their strangeness and difference. socratesonthebeach.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Issue 11 is live. Thank you to all who helped and the great writers and the translator featured. socratesonthebeach.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sam Lipsyte: "It’s a vivid, beautiful, image-rich book...a moving demonstration of consciousness in its endless dance with constructs of feeling and constructs of time. I love what the book embraces and also how it resists easier paths." thisissplice.co.uk/fiction/in-t...
March 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Corrected list
January 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The best essays I've read. (Missing some I know).
January 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My novel, In the Suavity of the Rock, named one of the best books of the year by Commonweal.
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January 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Going hard for Dreyer in the new book...
December 13, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Ezra Pound … beauty
November 19, 2024 at 12:48 PM
In the Suavity of the Rock has been out for 4 months. It's headed for a second printing. A few highlights: a conversation with Ryan Ruby: youtube.com/live/sVwvPK0... Words on it from Joseph McElroy:
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November 13, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Uncorrected proof of In the Suavity of the Rock has landed. Going out this week to early readers. Corrected ARC to reviewers in a month or two. Contact me or Splice if you want one. I can send PDFs now. @danieldaviswood.bsky.social
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December 8, 2023 at 6:30 PM
Thank you to Tobias Freeman, who wonderfully translated this beautiful book, and has introduced many to another French author of repute: "As a child I was surprised / to find myself in myself..." @tlef0.bsky.social www.infinitylandpress.com/deathpoems
November 12, 2023 at 5:30 PM
The most renown US novelist and US poet die within four months of each other. McCarthy/Glück. Piece forthcoming. Read this poem on dying from Faithful and Virtuous (watching someone die): www.threepennyreview.com/approach-of-... Below, from Two Necessary Angels: Stevens and Glück:
October 18, 2023 at 2:00 PM
In the Suavity of the Rock - a novel - pre-orders for a limited edition hardcover are now open.
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September 23, 2023 at 2:17 PM
The ninth issue of Socrates on the Beach is now live. Thank you to the writers and translators featured—I'm honored. socratesonthebeach.com
September 6, 2023 at 11:21 AM