Next Tuesday at Rizzoli Bookstore (6pm) in NYC is the launch for The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V. R. "Bunny" Lang. Lang was the best friend of Frank O'Hara and an influential poet in the 1950s. The collection is edited by Rosa Campbell, who will be reading and speaking with Dorothea Lasky

Beat the heat with a reading of Konstantin Vaginov's Goat Song (and Works and Days of Whistlin) tonight 7pm at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn. Edwin Frank, Ainsley Morse, Zain Khalid, and Walker Rutter-Bowman will be presenting. St Petersburg 1920's avant garde is back!

We have a steamy new romance out today: Ivan Turgenev's Smoke, in a new translation by Donald Rayfield. Grigori Litvinov is in Baden-Baden waiting for his fiancée. Also in Baden is his beautiful ex, Irinia, who left him for money and a general. Their passion smolders. But will it last?

Konstantin Vaginov was an early and exemplary figure of Soviet modernist writing. Ainsley Morse and Geoff Cebula have translated Goat Song & Works and Days of Whistlin, both set in the St Peterburg avant-garde arts & letters scene. Event on all this tomorrow (7pm) at Unnameable in Brooklyn.

Browse our Fall 2026 catalog, which includes publishers that we distribute in the US: Archipelago, Dorothy, and Notting Hill Editions; as well as NYR Comics, NYRB Poets, and NYRB Kids. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

Amit Chaudhuri is leading a online creative writing workshop from July 4 to 12. Deadline to apply is June 18. www.ashoka.edu.in/event/intern...

Tomorrow / Thursday Last chance to see Gwendoline Riley in the US. She'll be speaking with Andrew Martin about The Palm House. BookCulture. 536 W. 112th St. 7pm @bookculture.com

Angelenos, Brad Neely will be launching Creased Comics at BookSoup tomorrow at 4pm. He'll be speaking with Nic Juarez. It's also #IndieBookstoreDay so support your local indie bookstore.

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday. We'll be celebrating at BookSoup in Los Angeles where Brad Neely will be celebrating Creased Comics with Nic Juarez. Event starts at 4pm. booksoup.com/event/2026-0...

Boston— Tonight, Clare Carlisle will be speaking with James Wood on her new book, Transcendence for Beginners, at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Starts at 7pm New York— On Thursday, Carlisle will be speaking with Simon Critchley at McNally Jackson Seaport. Also starts at 7pm.

In the early 2000s Brad Neely shoved zines of Creased Comics in the box of the comics editor at The Daily Texan. People loved them. Neely and the editor never communicated. Now the comics are in a book which will Neely will show you at @bookpeople.com tonight 7pm.

Brad Neely tonight at @wordbookstores.bsky.social in Greenpoint. Speaking with Steve Macfarlane.

10 years of printing some of the best comic books around. New York Review Comics started in 2016 with Mark Beyer's Agony, Blutch's Peplum, & Almost Completely (Glen) Baxter. We're celebrating with a sale. Up to 40% off. Ends Sunday at midnight. Tell us your favorites. www.nyrb.com/collections/...

Brad Neely's Creased Comics coming in a book from NYR Comics on April 21. You can get one early next Friday at @wordbookstores.bsky.social at Brad's New York event. withfriends.co/event/275628...

See what's coming from us in spring 2026. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

Event on Joe Brainard's C Comics this Wednesday (6:30pm) at the New York Studio School (8 W 8th St., NYC). —with friends Bill Kartalopoulos, John Yau, and Tony Towle. Also will be streaming: nyss.org/lecture/in-c...

"Ralph Hubbell has succeeded marvelously in rendering the stream of consciousness of inner offbeat voices within the short stories of the great and notoriously difficult twentieth-century Turkish author Oğuz Atay." Nice translation praise from MLA's Scaglione Prize committee.

The 2 issues of Joe Brainard's C Comics, made with his poet friends (O'Hara, Ashbery, Koch, Guest, Berrigan. Padgett, etc.), have long been highly coveted on the 2nd-hand market and really expensive. As of today they are back in the print in one collection! With an essay by Bill Kartalopolous.

Already looking for Christmas presents? @thestrategist.com has done its Unusually Special Gifts for Under $50 and selected Rea Irvin's The Smythes! Rea Irvin was the New Yorker's first art director. He created the iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait. Meet the Smythes on 12/9 (publication day).

Chen Jiang Hong's Dragon Flower, translated from the French by Alyson Waters, has been named to the NYT/NYPL's "Best Illustrated Children's Books" list for 2025. We are buzzing. It's a beautiful book and a beautiful tale. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Ira Sachs's Peter Hujar's Day, starring Ben Whishaw as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, is out in cinemas today. Congrats to all involved! and to Rosenkrantz, the author of PHD and also Talk, one of our favorites.

Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy has been translated into English for the first time. On Tuesday (6pm) at La Maison Française NYU (16 Washington Mews NYC) a distinguished panel will discuss the work of one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the 20th-century. tinyurl.com/2kda9fzu

Edward Mendelson & Francesca Wade will be discussing the writing, correcting, and reading of Mrs. Dalloway, first published 100 years ago (though the accurate text has only just come out from yours truly), TONIGHT 7pm at @bookculture.com (536 W. 112th, NYC) See you in the Upper West Side.

Diane DiMassa, mother of Hothead Paisan, is in Boston tonight (7pm) at Boston Figurative Arts Center (285 Washington St., Somerville). The subject of the conversation with Joel Christian Gill? Rage. www.bostoncomicarts.org/event-detail... @bostoncomicarts.bsky.social

Philadelphia, Philly Comics Expo is tomorrow (10-6) in the Old Pine Community Center (410 Lombard St S). NYR Comics is tabling and Diane DiMassa has an event ("Still Homicidal After All These Years") at 2:30 and will be signing at 4. partnersandson.com/pages/philly...

Diane DiMassa event in Hartford, CT at Real Art Ways TOMORROW (9/25; 6:30pm) speaking with @alexdueben.bsky.social about Hothead Paisan. www.realartways.org/event/hothea...

Cullen Murhpy on how Mort Walker invented the language of comics. This month, we are reissuing the Lexicon of Comicana ("which enjoyed an immediate vogue among the cartoonist set") and @fantagraphics.bsky.social: Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles. airmail.news/issues/2025-... @airmail.news

Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.

New releases this week—Mrs Dalloway as Woolf wanted it; late and great (the best?) Barbara Pym; and a work of genius manga from the 80s, Miss Ruki.