Terry Pitts

Since 2007, I've written about WG Sebald, literature with embedded photos, & literature at the challenging end of the spectrum. Retired art museum director.

[Terry Pitts @terrypitts]

The early poems & the essays in Don Mee Choi's new book "Freely Frayed" are flat out terrific. In addition to being one hell of a poet, she's become one of our key moral standard bearers, fearlessly taking on the US & Korean govts with her "gook English." https://t.co/PwzBxz2bsM

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After rereading To the Lighthouse, I also reread Genevieve Kaplan's brilliant chapbook of poems erasing a single paragraph from Woolf's novel, "Settings for These Scenes." A smart little book in so many ways. https://t.co/kKnkVQNSeD...

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Berlin's Lettrétage has announced "Sebald Remembering," a free program June 6, 2026, with discussion on Sebald, followed by readings from Berlin-based writers. https://t.co/BxoEPzcPuR

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Danielle Del Giudice's novel Lines of Light (1985) explores how we perceive the world—through our senses and our emotions, through the languages of science and literature—and how we try to express the inexpressible. https://t.co/jjrKKnIz1v

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James Elkins continues with his mad desire to write one of the world's longest novels. Five Strange Languages will total 2,242 pages. Vol 2 is out now. "A Short Intro. to Anneliese." It's not short, it's profound, confounding & astounding. https://t.co/CoFebei9fS

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Daniele Del Giudice's 1st novel (1983) has finally been translated into English. It's about a writer who decided to stop writing. Calvino said this book was "a new approach to representation." @NewVesselPress https://t.co/hA080EUrHY

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Italo Calvino thought Daniele Del Giudice's first novel was "a new approach to representation" in 1983. "A Fictional Inquiry" still stands up nicely today. But the original title "Wimbledon Stadium" was more appropriate. https://t.co/hA080EUrHY

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@magistrabeck Congratulations! Great photographs! Such great smiles!

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In his new novel Montevideo, Enrique Vila-Matas continues building his literary family tree, updates a story by Cortázar, and makes hotel rooms disappear. He just may be our era’s Cervantes. https://t.co/2sPKwTK1lv @TomMir7

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I dove into John Trefry's novel Plats and resurfaced with a few things to say. It summons the reader to conjure up images and situations that can only be constructed in the mind, to use the infinite plasticity of our own imaginative processes.https://t.co/1jSHmPoSAr

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@AdamScovell I'm reading a PDF of the new translation of Sebald essays by Jo Catling now, Silent Catastrophes. Mostly very good, but really strong pieces on Handke, Kafka, and Ernst Herbeck. But I'm only halfway. It's out March 25 supposedly.

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Four books of/about poetry made my 2024 Notable Books List:@asiyawadud's luscious Mandible Wishbone Solvent (!),@donmeechoi's end-of-trilogy Mirror Nation, Percival Everett's Sonnets for a Missing Key & Susan Howe's Spontaneous Particulars (super!). https://t.co/djkYAwnfvV

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@JakutaAlika's Like a Sky Inside & (@saintsoftness) A.V. Marraccini's We the Parasites are two of my Notable books of 2024. In fact, I would place them at the top of my notable list. Two small books that expand way beyond expectations. https://t.co/djkYAwnfvV

[Terry Pitts @terrypitts]

Four books of/about poetry made my 2024 Notable Books List: @asiyawadud's luscious Mandible Wishbone Solvent (!), @donmeechoi's end-of-trilogy Mirror Nation, Percival Everett's Sonnets for a Missing Key & Susan Howe's Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives (super!).

[Terry Pitts @terrypitts]

I'm doing a 6-parter on David Peace's Red Riding Quartet, one of the most malevolent places I have been in literature. Peace has taken us inside the fat belly of a very uncomfortable whale, a place where there is no exit but death. Part 4 is just up. https://t.co/L2PWSnD6nl

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I keep seeing X folks say the move to bsky is on (where I'm https://t.co/vcFcDKQiX1), but I just took about 100 people that I follow on X and tried to find them on bsky and sadly found only 16. But I will try being ambisocial for a while and see if bsky develops.

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In "1974," the opening volume of David Peace's Red Riding Quartet, a young crime reporter's curiosity sends him spiraling into a hellscape of violence and corruption from which he will not be able to escape. Only the reader emerges unscathed at the end. https://t.co/jo2dT731yb

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I'm doing a 6-part series on David Peace's remarkable novels, the Red Riding Quartet, 4 books about one of the most malevolent places in literature-England on the verge of Margaret Thatcher. https://t.co/jo2dT731yb

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Enrique Vila-Matas writes about Spanish painting and joins "the Brotherhood of the Insistent" in Insistence as a Fine Art, a new miniature book from @hanumaneds. @vilamatas_blog. https://t.co/YovpsxJx8w

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A book about a sleepover at the Louvre ends up being about topics of much greater importance. Jakuta Alikavazovic's (@JakutaAlika) Like a Sky Inside is a wonderful, worthy book from @fernbooks. Thinking about fathers, art, value. https://t.co/pWIeAR33ef