Frances Evangelista

Through the mail slot today. And now in my hands. From Julio: Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar Volume I (1937 – 1966) by Julio Cortázar, translated from Spanish by Anne McLean, Sarah Moses. Feeling a little giddy. From @archipelagobooks.bsky.social.

"The global book market is expected to grow five per cent annually for the next several years; for the generation now entering college, book sales are at a lifetime high." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

And as if the news couldn’t get any better today: delighted to share that the awesome Dorothy Project will be publishing Pip’s latest novel, kluge, next year!

Assuming Counterpoint is included in the Catapult news, that means that 20% of this year's National Book Awards longlist for fiction was published by imprints that will no longer exist in their current form by the time of awards night.

An ENORMOUS congratulations to Pip Adam, this year's winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her novel AUDITION! 🚀🚀🚀 We couldn't be happier! Pip is a monumental talent and a force of good in the world. Huge thanks to the judges and everyone at @ursulakleguin.com ♥️ @pipadam.bsky.social

It's absolutely impossible to express how much this means and how unbelievable it seems.

I did not know this was coming. Grabbing a copy of its sure to be beautiful shortness this evening.

The wonderful Renee Gladman talks about joy, among other things, at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social . . .

According to our 2026 teacher survey, more students are coming to school in need of basic necessities like food and hygiene products. It doesn’t have to be this way. Read more about how we can make sure students have what they need https://bit.ly/484YfKi

"But this time around I loved it mostly as an outrageous and iconoclastic piece of rhetoric, nearly novelistic in its scope." Dwight Garner re-reads Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel.

Brigid Brophy's prizewinning novel, Hackenfeller's Ape, reissued in USA by @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Yay!

An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Hélène Giannecchini, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis was just what I needed as we near midterms. Tell the stories of the marginalized, recognize the importance of your friends, never feel beholden to “social norms” that refuse to see you. Masterful.

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like.

In April 1922, 25-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his publisher, Charles Scribner II, with a list of 18 backlisted novels he thought Scribner's should reissue. He included his own (and then only) novel, the best-selling This Side of Paradise. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Saturday

In November, @onebrightbook.bsky.social is going to discuss The Great Gatsby. You can see here what Dorian’s take is. I think it might be hard to turn him. But I’ve known this for a while. What I really want to hear now is what you think of it. Please?

Two covers (FSG + Daunt).

The late-afternoon sun had turned now from a vivid yellow to a warm lazy orange, and it seemed almost as tired as he was. The road raced ahead in a series of gentle curves that began to look familiar, and off in the distance the solitary tollbooth appeared, a welcome sight indeed.

❤️❤️❤️

Starting May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry from @transitbooks.bsky.social. Presumably with many, many other people if my social media timelines mean anything.

“Hang on to your hope.” E. B. White in 1973.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

If you see this, recommend a short book. The Governesses by Anne Serre, translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson.

For your weekend listening pleasure: our latest episode, on Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments. onebrightbook.com/2026/10/01/e...

This book is wilder than I remembered from my first reading 15 years ago. Listen to us marvel at Vivian Gornick’s unruly brilliance.

True book lust. Delivered in February from @fsgbooks.bsky.social.

Now reading Anita Brookner: Art & Life by Hermione Lee.

How I’ve spent most of my day.

Tomorrow! It's time to talk about mothers, daughters, memoirs, and probably a lot more.

Making a few notes. The @onebrightbook.bsky.social crew is back together tomorrow morning to discuss Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick.

"The book is conversational and inclusive but, crucially, the material isn’t diluted; this is hard stuff, it admits, but let’s have a crack at it together."

There are quite a few things I need to be reading today. And only one thing I’ll actually be reading.

‘In Hermione Lee’s biography we enter the life and work of a woman who was “dandyish, witty, controlled”, and who often sought in the shade what other writers may seek in the sunny uplands of a social group.’ Andrew O’Hagan on Anita Brookner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English fine embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #WomensArt

A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man

“It is in domestic detail that she best expresses her genius. In this way, she’s a cousin of Elizabeth Bowen, Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Taylor, female writers who observe things that male writers almost never do . . .”

The start of school is such a crazy, stressful time. Relaxing with a mystery. In my pajamas. Feels like such a gift. I will get to all the other tasks later. Haven’t even had time to get to my #spinsterseptember books yet.

On my way home. But I made one last stop.

Troubles is extraordinary. Farrell’s next two books, The Siege of Krishnapur and Singapore Grip, are also wonderful. I’ve read them all at least three times.

Seattle skyline truly spectacular tonight.

Ordering now from Blackwell’s because I can’t wait for the US edition. Which I will probably also buy. Even though I still think she’s a little personally forbidding, even scary. Scary genius.

Here are eight excellent books to consider for #SpinsterSeptember, hosted by @pear-jelly.bsky.social. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/s...

Big day in NYRB HQ, Diane Williams's new collection, I Liked Rex, is out. If you haven't read her work: it is made up of tiny, coruscating tales which are among the most tender, funny, peculiar, and searching works in all of contemporary literature.

And @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social is a panelist for this interesting conversation! Repping @onebrightbook.bsky.social. @onebrightbook.bsky.social

Starting We Were Forbidden by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz from @transitbooks.bsky.social. Second reading. I’ve been wondering about a few things…

Cooking from this today.

It's a good time to donate to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. buff.ly/TAOuSZ4

For every teacher out there, overwhelmed or exhausted by the start of school, lots of people see you and appreciate all that you do. Happy Weekend Eve!