Rob Madole

writer & translator in Berlin

[brady brickner-wood @braydbay]

i’ll be writing the New Yorker’s Infinite Scroll column for the next month or so — first up’s an essay about the novel, Don DeLillo smoking cigs and staring out the window, modern book publishing, the new literary criticism on social media, and what we want when we read books

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

pound for pound best album of all time

[brady brickner-wood @braydbay]

this month i'll be filling in for @chaykak and writing the New Yorker's Infinite Scroll column — here's my first one, about all the pathetic dumb ICE ads
https://t.co/qQ6gZndleX

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

@keithdorejel Stalin without industrialization

[Elena Saavedra Buckley @elenasb_]

Yet again I want to plug my bf Chris’s stunning book. It’s the work of a working mind; these poems read like essays and were performed (mostly) live as loose lecture-y things first; it is intellectual and psychological vulnerability as art. Just take a look at that TOC.

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

charles moore is who people think frank gehry was

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

@dRUIDHOOD calibri eh

[brady brickner-wood @braydbay]

i wrote about reading
https://t.co/idNKdwjBV6

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

Can't wait for Chris's book to rock ur world like it rocked mine

[Elena Saavedra Buckley @elenasb_]

My brilliant bf Chris Schlegel has some of his upcoming book of poetry, THE BLACKBIRD, excerpted in @parisreview 💜 if you like poesy about Rumsfeld — you've come to the right place https://t.co/QHwo7NWDQd

[Elena Saavedra Buckley @elenasb_]

My brilliant bf Chris Schlegel has some of his upcoming book of poetry, THE BLACKBIRD, excerpted in @parisreview 💜 if you like poesy about Rumsfeld — you've come to the right place https://t.co/QHwo7NWDQd

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

@stevenwatts necromodernism

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

The ultimate answer is that P&V are great Tolstoy translators and bad Dostoyevsky translators

[Χριστόφορος @grnpointer]

Does anybody who replied to this want to tell me which war and peace to read

[Will Evans @willevans]

TEXAS LEGEND (and for a Dallas connection to this Houston literary titan: his dad snuck a Barthelm acrostic into his design of the magisterial Hall of State in Fair Park, as @marklamster touches on in his forthcoming @DeepVellum book Welcome to Paradox City)

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

@rob_rubsam @ianbonaparte ✊✊✊

[brady brickner-wood @braydbay]

I wrote about the Luka trade, the "Fire Nico" movement," and the mystical properties of sports fandom for the New Yorker

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

@rob_rubsam @ianbonaparte thanks robert!

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

@braydbay 🙏🙏🙏

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

@Zac__Cohen @ianbonaparte will do!

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

@ianbonaparte the world's best agent!

[Rob Madole @rob_madole]

@ZIssenberg thank you zach! excited to get it in your hands