Mark Sarvas
@marksarvas
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof. “ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill. "Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews www.marksarvas.com
Inhaled this, just loved it. Deeply moving, rich, dense. She accomplish so much in this plain, unfussy register. She is a marvel. I do wish the title was less on the nose, but that's the worst I have to say!
Hiding from LA heat with @susanamonso.com’s fascinating book PLAYING POSSUM. (Research for novel 4) Highly recommend! Very accessible to the general reader.
From Jean Grenier's "Considerations on the Death of a Dog" ... (Berger is fine, no cause for alarm!)
The great Daniel Mendelsohn in the NYRoB. This is, literally, the review I have been waiting for, the only review of The Odyssey that might have gotten me into a theater. I've been exhausted with Nolan for years; will sit this one out. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
A bit from my 2025 novel @UGMAN in which the soon-to-be-proclaimed stiff is (sort of) name checked ...
End of residency report: 23,000 words, bringing total to 58,000. But more importantly, structure has been unlocked. A clear road ahead to finish a first draft. Deep gratitude to Chateau de Lavigny for the gift of this month of writing time. #writing #amwriting
My smashing cohort of talented fellows got a lovely write up in one of the area papers. Chateau de Lavigny is, indeed, an Eden for writers …
Surprised by how sad I feel about David Hockney. Sitting over lunch doing a mental inventory of so many individual images that have moved me and/or delivered such great pleasure over the years. What a great loss.
Heading off for residency number two of 2026, a month at Chateau de Lavigny. My intention is to have a near-total internet/news fast for the month (we shall see how my willpower is), so I will see you all again in July. Have a safe and happy summer.
I am thrilled to hold the debut of my former student and current dear friend, Andre Hardy. I saw this book in its earliest form way back at UCLA and never lost faith in Andre’s journey. Even sweeter to me: it was sold by my brilliant agent. Some days, the fairy tale really does come true.
This would be an excellent moment for my comrades on the left to reacquaint themselves with this fundamental essay. harpers.org/archive/1964...
Hard to see because all the repros are so lousy but suspect the third is in the hair over the year, a favorite spot for hiding Ninas ...
