Daniel Levin Becker
@dlb
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Paris, France
Joined April 2007
RT @KihlgrenGrandi: Imagination et créativité pour appréhender les villes d'aujourd'hui et de demain. Rejoignez-nous demain pour célébrer l….
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Tour starts tonight at @CityLightsBooks. Hit it.
"[Jakuta Alikavazovic] is one of the great writers of our time." @GarthGreenwell, author of CLEANNESS. Get the book:. Check out the tour (merci, @villa_albertine!): . Author photo: © Francesca Mantovani. @JakutaAlika @dlb
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RT @fernbooks: Mark your calendars for the Like a Sky Inside book tour! We are thrilled to share this "singularly beautiful book" (@mervati….
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Will be on this panel tomorrow talking Oulipo and cities and Calvino and mangroves. The usual.
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:
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RT @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….
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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.
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RT @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….
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The Final Countdown, but make it life-affirming.
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. . @JakutaAlika @dlb @katiekitamura
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RT @chrisgclarke1: March 28th, I will chat about Raymond Queneau and The Skin of Dreams, recently published by @nyrbclassics, with the alwa….
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RT @yalepress: Museum Visits presents the daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard. In this Q&A, w….
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RT @fernbooks: Hello fronds! @JakutaAlika's LIKE A SKY INSIDE (3/26, translated by @dlb) is officially available for preorder now. Discov….
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RT @transitbooks: Laurent Mauvignier and @dlb for THE BIRTHDAY PARTY 🎉🎉🎉🎉. Love the bold, risk-taking literature @USRofC champions from ind….
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RT @BookPostUSA: Éric Chevillard ruminates on a visit to see Hegel's cap. Read on Book Post:. .
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Out today in the U.S. from @yalepress: MUSEUM VISITS, a litany of succinct observational bafflements from the inimitable Éric Chevillard.
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"I recommend [The Birthday Party] to anyone who likes their books long, meandering, and very stressful.".
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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Join us tomorrow at @amerlibparis (or online) to discuss translating Mauvignier's THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, among others:.
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If you've been wanting to hear me haltingly liken a novel to a deconstructed samosa, here's your chance.
New Three Percent podcast just dropped! @chrisgclarke1 and @dlb joined @chadwpost to talk about two Raymond Queneau books out TODAY from @Dalkey_Archive: Pierrot Mon Ami (Essentials edition) and Sally Mara's Intimate Journal.
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In college I had a playlist on my computer called "Triumph" that was just this song. (Don't ask, I wouldn't have been able to explain it even then.) RIP Brian McBride.
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