Had a great time with Parul Sehgal for Words Without Borders - in case you missed it, the video is here! https://wordswithoutborders.org/events/a-vocabulary-of-pleasure-a-virtual-salon-with-literary-critic-parul-sehgal-adam-dalva/?src=dropdown
So proud to be among the organizers of "Labor & Literary Criticism" a panel in which @jenniferwilson.bsky.social@zzoehhu.bsky.social@adamdalva.bsky.socialtinyurl.com/laborpanel23
I have a new piece up on Lit Hub today, courtesy of the folks at Cake Zine. It’s a raw one: https://lithub.com/on-grief-pizza-and-the-power-of-food-to-evoke-memory/
1. My brother Robert and I grew up on Manhattan’s East Side. Some afternoons, we’d go to a deli—he’d get a stack of Genoa salami on an untoasted plain bagel—or to a diner for a hamburger. Us...
Turned in my works cited list for my talk at NYU Paris on Monday - the reading for this was a blast
Rabbit Is Rich is really spectacular - also loved this piece
this nudity warning is very funny
I love leading the fiction team at Guernica, and think that we've been on a hot streak these last few months. We have great new stories on offer today by Jamel Brinkley, Meghan Gilliss, and Michel Bulteau (translated by Austyn Wohlers) https://www.guernicamag.com/format/fiction/
This would also be an excellent dinner party group!
Bob Gottlieb - a lovely man, a wonderful friend, and a genius. I'll miss him. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/remembering-robert-gottlieb-editor-extraordinaire
At Knopf and The New Yorker, Gottlieb was an editor of unexampled accomplishment—someone who seemed to have read everything worth reading and to have published a fair amount of it, too.