this is acontinuation of the whole saga where centrists avoid taking responsibility for losing and always blame the left
February 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
this is acontinuation of the whole saga where centrists avoid taking responsibility for losing and always blame the left
In a recent episode of the podcast The Mookse and the Gripes I referred to Hélène Bessette’s outstanding novel Lili is Crying (1953) as “Clarice Lispector on acid, Hilda Hilst on mushrooms, and Ann Quin on molly.” 👀 If you enjoy experimental literature, don’t miss this one.
April 5, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Come read LILI IS CRYING with us! #AContinuation (new hashtag). The plan is for more Proust after that.
Exciting news: We’ll be starting the next phase of #AContinuation on February 1 & all are welcome to join! Page guide to come soon! @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Come read LILI IS CRYING with us! #AContinuation (new hashtag). The plan is for more Proust after that.
More info on #AContinuation here: www.joiedevivre9.com/katebriggs24...
#AContinuation
A collaboration between Kim (@joiedevivre9), Rebecca (@ofbooksandbikes) & everyone else who wants to participate.
www.joiedevivre9.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
More info on #AContinuation here: www.joiedevivre9.com/katebriggs24...
I finally finished Roland Barthes' The Neutral. I didn't want it to end and now that it's over, I still don't.
#AContinuation
#AContinuation
April 26, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I finally finished Roland Barthes' The Neutral. I didn't want it to end and now that it's over, I still don't.
#AContinuation
#AContinuation
"Gnossienne: Word invented by Satie, sitting halfway between gnostic and madeleine." (p84) -- Ian Penman, ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE #AContinuation
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"Gnossienne: Word invented by Satie, sitting halfway between gnostic and madeleine." (p84) -- Ian Penman, ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE #AContinuation
Starting in 5 days!! #AContinuation
Exciting news: We’ll be starting the next phase of #AContinuation on February 1 & all are welcome to join! Page guide to come soon! @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Starting in 5 days!! #AContinuation
For Proust'a birthday: some pictures by Eugène Atget from 1898-1910 in Paris' 8th arrondissement where Proust lived while writing In Search of Lost Time. #AContinuation
July 10, 2026 at 10:08 PM
For Proust'a birthday: some pictures by Eugène Atget from 1898-1910 in Paris' 8th arrondissement where Proust lived while writing In Search of Lost Time. #AContinuation
Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection.
Roland Barthes, The Neutral #AContinuation
Roland Barthes, The Neutral #AContinuation
April 20, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection.
Roland Barthes, The Neutral #AContinuation
Roland Barthes, The Neutral #AContinuation
February 20, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Exciting news: We’ll be starting the next phase of #AContinuation on February 1 & all are welcome to join! Page guide to come soon! @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Exciting news: We’ll be starting the next phase of #AContinuation on February 1 & all are welcome to join! Page guide to come soon! @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social
#AContinuation
"...to get myself vividly interested in what is contemporaneous to me, I might need the detour through death..." (9)
"...to get myself vividly interested in what is contemporaneous to me, I might need the detour through death..." (9)
March 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
#AContinuation
"...to get myself vividly interested in what is contemporaneous to me, I might need the detour through death..." (9)
"...to get myself vividly interested in what is contemporaneous to me, I might need the detour through death..." (9)
#NYRBWomen26 #AContinuation
...what is Proust’s poetry if not infinitely unrelenting reticular analysis, galactic thought, applied to the singular and concrete object: the metaphor, the precise, incandescent similitude?
...what is Proust’s poetry if not infinitely unrelenting reticular analysis, galactic thought, applied to the singular and concrete object: the metaphor, the precise, incandescent similitude?
April 20, 2026 at 11:48 PM
#NYRBWomen26 #AContinuation
...what is Proust’s poetry if not infinitely unrelenting reticular analysis, galactic thought, applied to the singular and concrete object: the metaphor, the precise, incandescent similitude?
...what is Proust’s poetry if not infinitely unrelenting reticular analysis, galactic thought, applied to the singular and concrete object: the metaphor, the precise, incandescent similitude?
#AContinuation I just saw that Kate Briggs is one of the judges for the 2026 Goldsmiths Prize! 🎉 www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
February 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
#AContinuation I just saw that Kate Briggs is one of the judges for the 2026 Goldsmiths Prize! 🎉 www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
My interest in La Berma’s acting had continued to grow after the play was over, because it was no longer subject to the compression or constraints of reality…”
Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (transl. Charlotte Mandell) #AContinuation
Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (transl. Charlotte Mandell) #AContinuation
May 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
My interest in La Berma’s acting had continued to grow after the play was over, because it was no longer subject to the compression or constraints of reality…”
Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (transl. Charlotte Mandell) #AContinuation
Proust, In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom (transl. Charlotte Mandell) #AContinuation
I'm reading:
Diana Athill - Instead of a Letter #NYRBWomen26
May Sarton's Plant Dreaming Deep #SundaySarton
Toilus and Cressida #Troilus_2026
Lili is Crying #AContinuation
M: Son of the Century - Antonio Scurati
Osip Mandelstam - Selected Poems
Emperor: The Death of Kings as my "junk food" reading
Diana Athill - Instead of a Letter #NYRBWomen26
May Sarton's Plant Dreaming Deep #SundaySarton
Toilus and Cressida #Troilus_2026
Lili is Crying #AContinuation
M: Son of the Century - Antonio Scurati
Osip Mandelstam - Selected Poems
Emperor: The Death of Kings as my "junk food" reading
February 7, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm reading:
Diana Athill - Instead of a Letter #NYRBWomen26
May Sarton's Plant Dreaming Deep #SundaySarton
Toilus and Cressida #Troilus_2026
Lili is Crying #AContinuation
M: Son of the Century - Antonio Scurati
Osip Mandelstam - Selected Poems
Emperor: The Death of Kings as my "junk food" reading
Diana Athill - Instead of a Letter #NYRBWomen26
May Sarton's Plant Dreaming Deep #SundaySarton
Toilus and Cressida #Troilus_2026
Lili is Crying #AContinuation
M: Son of the Century - Antonio Scurati
Osip Mandelstam - Selected Poems
Emperor: The Death of Kings as my "junk food" reading
Here are the books I finished in February. I recommitted to reading 1hr each morning before starting work & it was just the reset I needed. Bessette & Sarton were both rereads. 4 are from the @usrofc.bsky.social longlist. I loved the entire stack! #AContinuation #SundaySarton #NYRBWomen26
March 4, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Here are the books I finished in February. I recommitted to reading 1hr each morning before starting work & it was just the reset I needed. Bessette & Sarton were both rereads. 4 are from the @usrofc.bsky.social longlist. I loved the entire stack! #AContinuation #SundaySarton #NYRBWomen26
#AContinuation
Lili is Crying - Hélène Bessette
So Lili is wrong to torture her heart over the verb 'to choose'.
Life takes care of the choosing. It's life that decides.
(99)
...
The choice takes care of itself.
The choice doesn't need us.
(101)
Lili is Crying - Hélène Bessette
So Lili is wrong to torture her heart over the verb 'to choose'.
Life takes care of the choosing. It's life that decides.
(99)
...
The choice takes care of itself.
The choice doesn't need us.
(101)
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 AM
#AContinuation
Lili is Crying - Hélène Bessette
So Lili is wrong to torture her heart over the verb 'to choose'.
Life takes care of the choosing. It's life that decides.
(99)
...
The choice takes care of itself.
The choice doesn't need us.
(101)
Lili is Crying - Hélène Bessette
So Lili is wrong to torture her heart over the verb 'to choose'.
Life takes care of the choosing. It's life that decides.
(99)
...
The choice takes care of itself.
The choice doesn't need us.
(101)
One for the #AContinuation crowd - Kate Briggs and Holly Pester discussing Lili is Crying by Hélène Bessette @joiedevivre9.bsky.social @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social libreria.transistor.fm
The Libreria Podcast
Libreria, a bookshop by Second Home, is an independent bookshop in Shoreditch, London. We help you discover new books and ideas to encourage interdisciplinary thinking. In the shop, we curate our book...
libreria.transistor.fm
February 15, 2026 at 11:37 AM
One for the #AContinuation crowd - Kate Briggs and Holly Pester discussing Lili is Crying by Hélène Bessette @joiedevivre9.bsky.social @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social libreria.transistor.fm
“I am drawn to people, for I am one myself, for whom literature is a deep passion, deep rather than wide readers, who discover the great works as Marc had discovered Proust, feel themselves companioned by certain writers throughout a lifetime, … (1/2) #SundaySarton #AContinuation
April 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
“I am drawn to people, for I am one myself, for whom literature is a deep passion, deep rather than wide readers, who discover the great works as Marc had discovered Proust, feel themselves companioned by certain writers throughout a lifetime, … (1/2) #SundaySarton #AContinuation
Novel Forms: A Conversation between Kate Briggs
& Madhur Anand.
“How is a book like love?” was one of the questions we asked ourselves... #AContinuation
brickmag.com/novel-forms-...
& Madhur Anand.
“How is a book like love?” was one of the questions we asked ourselves... #AContinuation
brickmag.com/novel-forms-...
Novel Forms: A Conversation with Kate Briggs | Brick
I spent the fall of 2022 at literary festivals, on tour with my second book of poetry, asking poets and novelists about translation, a subject I’d recently become interested in as a writer.
brickmag.com
February 27, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Novel Forms: A Conversation between Kate Briggs
& Madhur Anand.
“How is a book like love?” was one of the questions we asked ourselves... #AContinuation
brickmag.com/novel-forms-...
& Madhur Anand.
“How is a book like love?” was one of the questions we asked ourselves... #AContinuation
brickmag.com/novel-forms-...
Would this be a crazy late time to join in with #AContinuation? If I were to be so crazy, what would I most need to catch up on to understand what's going on?
February 1, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Would this be a crazy late time to join in with #AContinuation? If I were to be so crazy, what would I most need to catch up on to understand what's going on?
I’m old enough (unfortunately) to have taken part in the Save Wood Quay protests. This latest idea is just acontinuation of their cavalier attitude towards the site.
March 28, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I’m old enough (unfortunately) to have taken part in the Save Wood Quay protests. This latest idea is just acontinuation of their cavalier attitude towards the site.