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Rhian Sasseen
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Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Paris Review, etc https://www.rhiansasseen.com
For the fall issue of Kinfolk, I interviewed Vincenzo Latronico about the process of writing Perfection, the influence of Georges Perec on his work, what it’s like to be translated as a translator, and more: www.kinfolk.com/stories/on-t...
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Next Wednesday, May 28th! Come by Bar Jade in Bushwick at 7 p.m. for another reading organized by Kate Peters and me! Featuring work by:

- Jenna Klorfein
- Ismail Muhammad
- Alex Wolfe
- Rob Rubsam (@robrubsam.bsky.social)

See you there!! partiful.com/e/LhcoSXdMXe...?
May 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I wrote a newsletter about the Portuguese artist Helena Almeida, her use of the color blue, and the words “listen to me” phrasebooks.substack.com/p/i-turn-mys...
April 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Got the inaugural issue of @fallowmedia.bsky.social in the mail a few days ago, and it’s beautiful — plus, I’ve got an essay in it on the work of the Polish photographer Joanna Piotrowska in it
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Rereading Georgi Gospodinov’s excellent, relevant Time Shelter (translated by Angela Rodel)
March 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“It Is March,” W. S. Merwin
March 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
TONIGHT!!

WISH YOU WERE HERE reading series 7pm at Bar Jade in Bushwick!

Featuring:
Elina Alter
Kate Peters
Walker Rutter-Bowman
Noor Qasim
And me!

See you there!!
January 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
And on the next page - Dubravka Ugresic on this cultural infantilization and how it relates to Mark Zuckerberg
January 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Dubravka Ugresic, from her last book before her death, A Muzzle for Witches (translated by Ellen Elias-Bursic)
January 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My friend Kate and I have another evening of our WISH YOU WERE HERE reading series coming up on Wednesday, January 29, at 7 pm at Bar Jade in Bushwick!

Featuring:
Elina Alter
Kate Peters
Walker Rutter-Bowman
Noor Qasim
And me!

See you there??
January 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Photos by Joanna Piotrowska at the ICA In Philadelphia
November 30, 2024 at 8:37 PM
I’m a little over two hundred pages into The Magic Mountain and this scene with the x-rays is just incredible
November 21, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Really enjoying Christine Lai’s Landscapes
August 24, 2023 at 3:30 PM