Michael Barron

writer / editor |
formerly @NewDirections @MelvilleHouse |
currently board member @andothertweets

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

I'm available for feedback on manuscripts, stories, and pitches. My experiences as an editor at New Directions, Melville House, and the Rumpus means I've seen it all. Let me help you. Fees negotiable and on a sliding scale.

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

@maxdaniellawton @willevans @TheUntranslated @DeepVellum Well deserved. A translation that rewards close reading with easter eggs, like the running gag of the German original invading the English rendition.

[And Other Stories @andothertweets]

Come and work with us! We’re looking for an Associate Publisher / Publishing Manager to join the team in Sheffield (hybrid). Deadline for applications is 20 April.

https://t.co/DqKY140fei

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

@katherineveritt Castiglione della Pescaia cemetery

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

Back in the States, but paid a visit to Italo Calvino's grave before I departed from Italy.

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

RIP to a master, Alexander Kluge. A filmmaker and writer of singular mind and style. THE DEVIL'S BLINDSPOT, AIR RAID, and THE SNOWS OF VENICE, his collaboration with Ben Lerner, are gems. You can watch the event for their New York launch here: https://t.co/ycJGTIcTi5

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

@xlorentzen @cwik_greg Tried to get The Lime Twig reissued when I was at ND. Before my time, they had relaunched The Second Skin in 2005, with a preface by Jeffrey Eugenides, but maybe it didn't sell well enough for my pitch to be convincing.

[Jesse Barron @_jessebarron]

Three more days to read this online at @GrantaMag before it slinks back into its paywall cave—

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

Happy Saint Patrick's Day to the forthcoming "Great Dublin Novel" DOONEEN by the singular Keith Rigdway

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

.@FitzcarraldoEds has signed 'the Great Dublin Novel' - Dooneen by Keith Ridgway is 'an extraordinary book, funny and odd and moving and angry, quite unlike anything else in contemporary fiction'

https://t.co/muq7iKiydm (£)

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

For anyone interested, this site keeps a database (just over 900 entries atm) of Persian / Iranian literature in English translation. Mostly short stories and poetry but some novels and non-fiction too. https://t.co/u2L76WRdLL

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

@maxdaniellawton Glad to hear it. Great writer; great guy. I'll tell you story about a dinner with Shishkin if we ever meet.

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

@bartlebytaco More archival material can be found in Bolaño Archive: 1977-2003, the catalog printed for a 2013 exhibition; Bolaño Salvaje, which collects essays by friends, has a DVD. Related: Aaron Schulman's piece on RB's privatized archived and unwritten biography: https://t.co/BmPNUi8hU3

[Morten Høi Jensen @MortenHoiJensen]

Very sorry to hear of António Lobo Antunes’s passing. A genuine literary giant who refused to be silent about Portugal’s fascist and colonial history, and a novelist who pushed the boundaries of the form. Que descanse em paz.

[Kevin Lozano @kevlloydlozano]

Gutted to hear that Michael passed away. He taught so many of us how to read and how to listen
https://t.co/pgCLadh2T2

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

"To read her work is to witness the entire American poetic tradition distilled and reconfigured in the hands of a devotee, moved by a never-quite-explicable love." @cementeriocc on Susan Howe

[Federico Perelmuter @cementeriocc]

For @PoetryFound, I wrote about my beloved Susan Howe and how her writing and her voice have shaped my own private and public image of America and my invented English voice. Link below!

[Michael Luo @michaelluo]

Some @newyorker news! Becca Rothfeld (@heidegrrrrl) and Jordan Salama (@JordanSalama19) coming aboard. Welcome!

[Jacob Brogan @Jacob_Brogan]

If you'd like to support laid off journalists at the Post, some of my colleagues are started a go fund me https://t.co/KoN2KyLzXR

[Michael Barron @_michaelbarron]

WaPo had one of the most considerate and considerable book reviews in the country. Grateful to have written for it and wish Becca Rothfeld, Jacob Brogan and the rest of its staff the best.

[CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlorentzen]

Before I cancel my subscription to the Post, which I took out to read Becca Rothfeld's column, I was lucky to write once for John Williams on one of our heroes, Lewis Lapham. https://t.co/3tg1t7novm

[Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety]

"Among the more insidious forms of American arrogance toward China is the idea that where we have politics, China has only government." @nplusonemag https://t.co/3LMucze4Yl

[CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlorentzen]

Wrote a piece. https://t.co/I0m6ohnb0h