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

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

Issue 11 is live. Thank you to all who helped and the great writers and the translator featured. socratesonthebeach.com

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...

Corrected list

The best essays I've read. (Missing some I know).

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My novel, In the Suavity of the Rock, named one of the best books of the year by Commonweal.
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Going hard for Dreyer in the new book...

Ezra Pound … beauty

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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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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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

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:

In the Suavity of the Rock - a novel - pre-orders for a limited edition hardcover are now open.
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The ninth issue of Socrates on the Beach is now live. Thank you to the writers and translators featured—I'm honored. socratesonthebeach.com