Open City

A literary magazine and book publisher of fiction, poetry, art, and essays (1990-2011).

[David Ulin @davidulin]

@DanielTorday @MattWeiland @sayrafiezadeh @thomasbeller @MBNHood @GrantaMag https://t.co/YqnJ9MKW4A

[Open City @opencitymag]

January 4th is Berman’s birthday. Happy birthday, David.

[Meghan Daum @meghan_daum]

Wonderfully comprehensive writeup in @LAReviewofBooks of my old professor and now old friend Frank Bergon. https://t.co/zVQ9IEn9aT

[Meghan Daum @meghan_daum]

Comments are beautiful and heartbreaking.

[Dean Smith @NeverEasy921]

Nice start to the new year for the new bk. "A masterpiece, blending memoir, history, detached observation, poignant vignettes, and craft—not just about Baltimore Sons (and daughters), nor about black and white trauma-filled lives, but the American Dream." https://t.co/xuMm7gfGec

[Dawn Raffel @DawnRaffel]

I don't know how I missed this review of Gordon Lish by @walterkirn on @AirMailWeekly but he got it exactly right. @dzancbooks https://t.co/eNbJhbXlVy

[Irvine Welsh @IrvineWelsh]

Twitter can get to fuck as well for all I care.

[Jill Bialosky @Jrbialosky]

https://t.co/a3QNVyV0S9

Congratulations to Martin Espada's FLOATERS, a National Book Awards for Poetry finalist and to all the other finalists. @martinespada @wwnorton

[vince passaro @passerpiccolo]

I happily wrote a piece about music in my work for the great site Largehearted Boy--check them out.

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

“...back then, as likely now, you got judged by the music you chose, it placed you in the social matrix somewhere...”

@passerpiccolo shared a playlist for his novel Crazy Sorrow at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/KkZoDCyw9w @SimonBooks @simonschuster

[Matthew Zapruder @matthewzapruder]

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[Saïd Sayrafiezadeh @sayrafiezadeh]

RIP #MelvinVanPeebles You made me want to be an artist

[Open City @opencitymag]

Send a dime to Don Delillo.

[Air Mail @AirMailWeekly]

This is the world's most photographed polar bear.
https://t.co/zxowkAtJTu

[Matt Weiland @MattWeiland]

I read @sayrafiezadeh in @thomasbeller’s sublime @MBNHood in 2003. I pub'd @GrantaMag an essay of Saïd’s in '05 that led to his memoir from Dial in '09. And now I’m thrilled to publish his new stories, AMERICAN ESTRANGEMENT. None of it woulda happened without Beller and his mag.

[Matt Weiland @MattWeiland]

AMERICAN ESTRANGEMENT: Stories by @sayrafiezadeh, out now

“Excellent.”—NYTBR
“Dark and exhilarating.”—LAT
“Arresting.”—STAR TRIB
“Stellar.”—LARB
“Entertaining and political without being heavy-handed.”—BOOKLIST
“Lyrical, funny, smart, and heartbreaking.”—KIRKUS (starred)
...

[Matt Weiland @MattWeiland]

What @sayrafiezadeh learned from a youthful playwriting fellowship: "...that the empty, unimaginative mind was ever present and that one worked despite that. One worked even when they didn’t want to, relying on inspiration as much as the coal miner or the grocery store clerk.”

[Robert Polito @Fantomas2go]

John Yau - “In the work of Conner, Berman, and the others in this exhibition, one sees critiques of American materialism, masculinity, and the preoccupation with the beautiful.” https://t.co/LjqkOpHUd9

[Michael Lortz @crossroadscurve]

Rereading George Plimpton's The Curious Case of Sidd Finch.
In the preface @JonathanAmes writes this amazing line:
"Winning is good for fantasies and late night insomnia, but losing is good for writing - its more interesting, more humorous, and more human."