Valerie Miles
@valeriemiles.bsky.social
Emersonian, doer of impossible things: curator Roberto Bolaño exhibit @CCCB, Barcelona. Ed. Spanish Granta, Writing the Prado Fellowship Chair, author A Thousand Forests in One Acorn, etc.
I’ll be in conversation with Anne Carson on Monday, in Barcelona. She will perform “By Chance the Cycladic People” and “Possessive Used as Drink (Me) A Lecture on Pronouns”, w/ visual artists James Merry and Robert Currie and dancer Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir. And we have a little surprise planned...
May 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I’ll be in conversation with Anne Carson on Monday, in Barcelona. She will perform “By Chance the Cycladic People” and “Possessive Used as Drink (Me) A Lecture on Pronouns”, w/ visual artists James Merry and Robert Currie and dancer Aðalheiður Halldórsdóttir. And we have a little surprise planned...
Bartleby the cat prefers Patinir.
November 22, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Bartleby the cat prefers Patinir.
@grantaesp.bsky.social Amazing species of orchid found in Peru and Colombia. Nabokov would approve… nature showing its playful, trickster side. 🦋
November 22, 2024 at 7:59 AM
@grantaesp.bsky.social Amazing species of orchid found in Peru and Colombia. Nabokov would approve… nature showing its playful, trickster side. 🦋
So grateful to the Southwest Review for awarding my essay “The Telepathy of Bolaño’s Archive. At the Surface of the Visible” their McGinnis Ritchie Award for non-fiction. 🍀📚🍾🥂 @southwestreview.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 4:57 PM
So grateful to the Southwest Review for awarding my essay “The Telepathy of Bolaño’s Archive. At the Surface of the Visible” their McGinnis Ritchie Award for non-fiction. 🍀📚🍾🥂 @southwestreview.bsky.social
Fond memories of John Maxwell Coetzee’s time at the Prado as our first Writing the Prado Fellow. Here with the museum’s director Miguel Falomir, and Sheila Loewe of the Loewe Foundation, the program’s sponsor. @museodelprado.es @grantaesp.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Fond memories of John Maxwell Coetzee’s time at the Prado as our first Writing the Prado Fellow. Here with the museum’s director Miguel Falomir, and Sheila Loewe of the Loewe Foundation, the program’s sponsor. @museodelprado.es @grantaesp.bsky.social
A quick visit to the #BritishMuseum to see my old friend Artemidorus once again and introduce him to another friend, Chloe Aridjis. And there the ghostly photo… 🕯️
November 19, 2024 at 9:36 AM
A quick visit to the #BritishMuseum to see my old friend Artemidorus once again and introduce him to another friend, Chloe Aridjis. And there the ghostly photo… 🕯️
Gorgeous #Bookerprize2024 ceremony, here with Sheila Loewe @Loewe Foundation, jury chair Edmund de Waal, and Alan Hollinghurst. Congratulations to Samantha Harvey for winning with Orbital, and to her readers, past, present and future. 📚🍾🥂
November 19, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Gorgeous #Bookerprize2024 ceremony, here with Sheila Loewe @Loewe Foundation, jury chair Edmund de Waal, and Alan Hollinghurst. Congratulations to Samantha Harvey for winning with Orbital, and to her readers, past, present and future. 📚🍾🥂