Daniel Levin Becker

Technically it's #YLOO

[Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi @KihlgrenGrandi]

Imagination et créativité pour appréhender les villes d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Rejoignez-nous demain pour célébrer la réécriture du chef-d'œuvre de Calvino par le collectif d'écrivains auquel il appartenait.
@III_SNFPHI @CGCParisCenter @CityDiploLab
https://t.co/et8VmiWgrh

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

Tour starts tonight at @CityLightsBooks. Hit it.

[Fern Books @fernbooks]

"[Jakuta Alikavazovic] is one of the great writers of our time." @GarthGreenwell, author of CLEANNESS

Get the book:
https://t.co/4PEWPoSqa2

Check out the tour (merci, @villa_albertine!):
https://t.co/HDVZRs4s6J

Author photo: © Francesca Mantovani

@JakutaAlika @dlb

[Fern Books @fernbooks]

Mark your calendars for the Like a Sky Inside book tour! We are thrilled to share this "singularly beautiful book" (@mervatim) next month:
@CityLightsBooks, @ThirdPlaceBooks, @lostcitybooks, @albertinebooks, @PENworldvoices

For more: https://t.co/4PEWPoSqa2

@JakutaAlika @dlb

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

Will be on this panel tomorrow talking Oulipo and cities and Calvino and mangroves. The usual.

[Carnegie Endowment @CarnegieEndow]

TUESDAY @ 10 AM:

Join a special panel discussion featuring IPCC authors, climate policy experts, and writers pushing the boundaries of science & policy as they explore the role of narratives in advancing climate action.

RSVP: https://t.co/hlpTCl4trL

[Fern Books @fernbooks]

Calling all Fronds of Fern Books! Now that LIKE A SKY INSIDE has debuted on the literary scene, we want to see it out in the wild. Send us your photos, no hand modeling experience required!

For more: https://t.co/4PEWPoSqa2

@JakutaAlika @dlb

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

Happy publication day to this elegant, insightful, endlessly beguiling memoir-essay-caper, an honor to translate and an expansive joy to revisit again and again. Can't wait for you to read it.

[The Dial Magazine @thedialmag]

9/ In an excerpt from her new book "Like a Sky Inside," Jakuta Alikavazovic tells the story of a young woman's night alone at the Louvre, and dares to ask: “And you, how would you go about stealing the Mona Lisa?” https://t.co/cUuyzXKI8u

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

The Final Countdown, but make it life-affirming

[Fern Books @fernbooks]

How will you spend the final week before LIKE A SKY INSIDE by Jakuta Alikavazovic comes out?

"LIKE A SKY INSIDE is... written with unsurpassed brio, intelligence, and empathy." -Katie Kitamura, author of INTIMACIES

https://t.co/4PEWPoSqa2

@JakutaAlika @dlb @katiekitamura

[Chris Clarke @chrisgclarke1]

March 28th, I will chat about Raymond Queneau and The Skin of Dreams, recently published by @nyrbclassics, with the always insightful @dlb. There will also be a few in-person events for this translation, but this will be the one online event. Join us!

https://t.co/6BGTOTZKX3

[Yale University Press @yalepress]

Museum Visits presents the daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard. In this Q&A, we with talk with translator Daniel Levin Becker @dlb about the process of translation, the magic of Chevillard’s style, and more.
https://t.co/ZuG659cDGJ

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

@KalenIwamoto @derekbeaulieu @christianbok @jeanboitedition !!

[Fern Books @fernbooks]

Hello fronds! @JakutaAlika's LIKE A SKY INSIDE (3/26, translated by @dlb) is officially available for preorder now.

Discover what @_catherinelacey calls "a perfect sculpture of pure thought."

https://t.co/4PEWPoSqa2

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

@spencerruchti @fernbooks [squinting to make sure the asterisks aren't quotation marks] Phew!

[Transit Books @transitbooks]

Laurent Mauvignier and @dlb for THE BIRTHDAY PARTY 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Love the bold, risk-taking literature @USRofC champions from independent presses. Congratulations to all the longlisted authors and translators!

[Book Post @BookPostUSA]

Éric Chevillard ruminates on a visit to see Hegel's cap. Read on Book Post:

https://t.co/0MepAE7cpZ

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

By way of illustration:

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

Out today in the U.S. from @yalepress: MUSEUM VISITS, a litany of succinct observational bafflements from the inimitable Éric Chevillard.

https://t.co/UA1FJNpnwe

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

@J_Zuckerman @RyanCookpoetry No personal interactions, to my eternal regret, but translating him was not unlike how I imagine it felt to take this photo.

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

"I recommend [The Birthday Party] to anyone who likes their books long, meandering, and very stressful."

[WordsWithoutBorders @wwborders]

Today on WWB: our staff members' favorite translated books of 2023, plus the forthcoming ones we’re most hyped about in 2024. A little thread of these staff favorites below:
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https://t.co/GF0k3o8r8e