Very excited for the return of a stronger Bokkforum. Proud to be a subscriber.

#bookforum #writing #literature #literarycriticism

A review in Bookforum of The Night Ocean, which is a fictionalized telling of some events in HP Lovecraft’s Life, with a memorable cameo from Burroughs. I am not a Lovecraft person but the story swept me up. #hplovecraft #williamburroughs #bookforum

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2305/paul-la-farge-imagines-the-life-of-a-cult-horror-writer-17187

"Whereas other countries have publishing houses running literary magazines and a semblance of public funding for the arts, culture in the United States follows the dictates of capitalism, and small organizations must rely on one form of patronage or another."

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/bookforum-and-a-bleak-year-for-literary-magazines

#BookForum #Bookstodon #Culture #Capitalism #Publishing

A lovely elegy for #BookForum by Ann Kjellberg:

"in Bookforum a book could count on informed, focused, demanding attention... There was a sense of play, of sometimes gritty glamour, but also a jolt of intellectual rigor."

https://books.substack.com/p/notebook-on-the-way-to-the-forum

#Books #Bookstodon #Reviews #Publishing @litstudies

The shutting down of Bookforum:

The slow, methodical vanishing of serious (but curious) literary contemplation proceeds...

This final issue (but perhaps not?) on Hilton Als (on Prince!), Colette, N.K. Jemison's NYC, Sasha Frere-Jones on the art of Gordon Matta-Clark. I've truly enjoyed Bookforum, and this is a shame.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-12-13/a-hopefully-premature-obituary-for-bookforum-and-the-magazines-that-connect-us

#bookforum #literarycriticism

Hate that this is almost certainly the last issue #BookForum

I had my issues with BOOKFORUM. (I once received a particularly nasty and snobby email from an editor there -- the kind of needless and deranged vitriol that leads to fistfights in bars -- when I pitched them more than a decade ago.) But it was, for all of its faults, a vital outlet for thoughtful books coverage, which is increasingly less practiced. Make no mistake: the end of BOOKFORUM is a huge loss.

https://twitter.com/bookforum/status/1602347566351454209

#bookforum #books #journalism

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2704/jack-reacher-s-good-fights-24265

#reading #BookForum #essay #LeeChild #JackReacher #poet #MichaelRobbins #listening #SZA #music #SOS

#reading #BookForum #essay #LeeChild #JackReacher #poet #MichaelRobbins #listening #SZA #music #SOS

Very unhappy to hear about the folding of Bookforum. Bah humbug. #bookforum

Well they reviewed my book it broke the whole damn magazine.
#bookforum

So apparently ArtForum got bought by a stupid billionaire's son's company and now BookForum is going away. Because if there's one thing billionaires' sons hate, it's books.

A major loss. There's really no other publication in the US like BookForum.

Ban billionaires!

(Image is from BookForum on the birdsite.)

#Bookstodon #Books #BookForum #CapitalismRuinsEverything @litstudies

Bad news for authors and book lovers: #Bookforum magazine just announced on Twitter that it's shutting down.

https://twitter.com/bookforum/status/1602347566351454209