New linky-newsletter! There's a LOT going on in the world, so maybe take a little break and check out the links, the pix, BIRDY, and more? GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-62225/

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New newsletter, incl. a weird Flannery O'Connor moment at a biotech trade show, so GO READ! https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/everything-that-rises-must-converge/

New episode is live! Kate Maruyama talks about her fantastic new novel, ALTERATIONS! We get into #Hollywood, #movies, #costumes, #art, #love, #fiction, #LosAngeles & more, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-643-kate-maruyama

New linky newsletter! Lots of great stuff to read, some quick thoughts pending a visit to Yaddo, I flex, Birdy gets a visit from the groomer, and more, so GO READ! https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-61525/

New newsletter, on the Acel, somewhere between WAS & NWK
https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/running-up-that-hill/

And go get EMINENT JEWS from the publisher https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250193407/eminentjews/ or your fave bookshop https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9781250193407

New #podcast: #DavidDenby joins the show to talk about his new book, EMINENT JEWS: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer! We talk #art #music #movies #comedy #feminism #books #GreatBooks & a LOT more, so GO LISTEN! https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-642-david-denby

#LeonardBernstein #MelBrooks #BettyFriedan #NormanMailer

New linky #newsletter! Find out what the Soulless Set is up to, read more remembrances of #EdmundWhite, & more! GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-6825/

New newsletter: I wrote a little about Edmund White's death, Marc Maron's WTF-retirement, & more, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/slow-progressors/

And go get HORACE from the publisher https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256581/horace/ or your fave bookshop
https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9780300256581

And go listen to my 2022 conversation with @peter-stothard.bsky.social http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-513-peter-stothard

After a crazy day, new #podcast! #PeterStothard rejoins the show to celebrate his amazing new #book, HORACE: POET ON A VOLCANO! Go listen: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-641-peter-stothard

New #newsletter! This one's got a whole ton of links, + an oblique update on how I'm doing, a Hopper-esque photo of Birdy, a beautiful/sensual Rilke poem, and more, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-6125/

New #newsletter! We’ve got a new ep., a #BillCunningham #postcard, my #art, a couple #instax pix, & more, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/shred-tear-fray/

And go get NEVERMORE from the publisher https://seagullbooks.org/products/nevermore or your fave bookshop https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9781803093895 (trust me on this one!)

New #podcast! Cécile Wajsbrot joins the show (along w/translator Tess Lewis) to talk about her amazing novel, NEVERMORE! We get into #writing, #translation, the Forbidden Zone, #VirginiaWoolf, #TimePasses & #ToTheLighthouse, & a LOT more, so GO LISTEN: https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-640-cecile-wajsbrot

New #newsletter! Lots of links, some ruminations, a 2,000-year-old poem-coincidence, and more, so GO READ: https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/hitting-the-links-52525/

New newsletter from PHL, so GO READ! https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/sunny-with-a-chance-of-trees/

(& check out Keiler's other books from @dandq incl. MY BEGGING CHART (https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/my-begging-chart/), THE JOY OF QUITTING (https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/the-joy-of-quitting/), and CREEPY (https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/creepy/)

And go get PREPARING TO BITE from the publisher (@dandq) https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/preparing-to-bite/ or your fave bookshop https://bookshop.org/a/4669/9781770467743