the secret organizational scheme of my psyche

remembering how inspired I was in the late 1970s by Anaïs Nin’s intimate, theatrical diaries—tonight I’m reading Marguerite Duras, a virtuoso of the “stage whisper”—as if speaking to no one, but audible in the rafters

sculpture in progress—painted wooden stick drying as it leans against my favorite tree

I thank Anthea Bell for having made it possible for me (and so many others!) to read “Austerlitz.”

Elements of Style discarded as rubbish in stairwell
  pungent with chlorine
  and kitty litter.

- 'Green tuppence strewn' by Whiting winner @campmarmalade, via The Baffler buff.ly/3y8mb0M

What better way to spend the morning of your 55th birthday than introducing academic colleagues to the glittery excremental poetics of Wayne Koestenbaum

⁦Mathieu Demy⁩ 4K ☔️merci aux équipes ⁦Leon Rousseau⁩ ⁦Cineteca di Bologna⁩ / eclair classics ⭐️🎥⭐️ ⁦⁦Festival de Cannes⁩ 🙏 aux partenaires ⁦Le CNC⁩ ⁦Sacem⁩ ⁦CHANEL⁩ see you in ⁦Palais des Festivals⁩

From Gaza's last maternity and neonatal hospital, in Rafah: 'At the moment there are 45 babies between the neonatal intensive care unit and the special care intensive care unit. Without a doubt, if the Israeli army occupies this space, every single one of those babies will die.'

Might I recommend Charlotte's wonderful new translation of Paul Valéry's Monsieur Teste with an Intro by...yours truly?

Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard is now (gulp) (slurp) real! cup.columbia.edu/book/love-joe/…… Thank you to all the Brainardiacs who helped make this possible. Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS)

Bernie Sanders: 'No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – seventy percent of whom are women and children.' sanders.senate.gov/press-releases…

“I’ll carve in stone a new way of writing made for stones.” —Gabriel Pomerand (trans. Michael Kasper and Bhamati Viswanathan)

An anecdote passed down to me: once when the New School was occupied by students, members of the grad faculty met in a hotel room to decide what to do. When the police were mentioned, Hannah Arendt said, *in German*—'you never call the police.'

no matter your mood, no matter the season, never stop making things

Paul Auster 🖤
' To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
- Timbuktu -

.Semiotext(e) about to hit us with one of the great books of the decade:

semiotexte.com/selected-amazo…

From the City Lights archives: A publicity photo of Paul Auster, 1987.
Caption reads: Paul Auster, author of IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS, to be published by Viking on April 20 at $15.95, and CITY OF GLASS, to be published by Penguin on April 7 at $5.95.
(c) Francoise Schein

RIP Paul Auster. His anthology of French poetry was hugely important to me in college-- it's one of the reasons I decided to translate a book of poems for my senior thesis. It's one of those rare books that changed my life. I will be always be grateful.