events
OOOOOH! Get a last 1st edition copy of Lucy Ives’s three six five and a glimpse of the next three siglio titles, only at the CPW Photobook & Zine Fair in Kingston, Aug 8 & 9.
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reviews
The New Yorker | THREE SIX FIVE by Lucy Ives: “Both a guide and a work of literature in its own right.” —Dave O’Neill
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✼ news:
The New Yorker selects Lucy Ives’s “unorthodox new collection of writing prompts” three six five as one of their “Best Books of 2026 So Far”! (Click “non-fiction” and scroll down.)
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three six five: prompts, acts, divinations by Lucy Ives | A second printing is on its way if you missed the first edition. Preorder now—books will ship out at the end of August.
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✼ events:
An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art dedicated, unusually, to the medium of the book will present a fantastic chance to see the original French 1930 publication Aveux non Avenus by Claude Cahun—you might know it as Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals), translated by Susan de Muth. “The Surrealist Book” opens in October. (Let’s all ask to see all of the pages! Maybe they’ll open the vitrine…)
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Hyperallergic | CANCELLED CONFESSIONS by Claude Cahun: “Cahun’s text itself is ravishingly myriad, split into nine sections that are themselves split into tributaries of declaration, dialogues, sketches, Wildean paradoxes, Cocteauian fables, Blakean proverbs… the writing is rambunctious with puns and made singular by its instinct to drive all syntaxes toward the plural. It’s also stylish, sexy, and funny, a kind of handbook of what Cahun called ‘angel slang’.” —Joyelle McSweeney
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The Brooklyn Rail | CANCELLED CONFESSIONS by Claude Cahun: “There is much about Cahun’s life—their gender-nonconforming presentation, their sustained work (with Moore) of anti-fascist resistance in Nazi-occupied France—that will feel familiar today. It’s another striking moment of doubling, perhaps: an uncanny (and possibly affirming) look in the mirror as history repeats itself. But, as always, the artist remains too capricious to draw an easy comparison.” —Daniella Sanader
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✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
Coming soon: something about some of many things so far in 2026—a real winter for a long while, a frozen pond with a day-tripping eagle, a trilogy of Robin Hood-inspired artist-writer collaborations in the works, the very welcome whatever-the-auditory-equivalent-of-appearance of peepers, much avian reconnaissance but as yet not much nesting, and little gardens (beginning to grow) everywhere…
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Find The Sleepers by Sophie Calle (the original photographs with Calle’s handwritten notations) installed in a room of its own at the Museum of Modern Art.
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books
THE SLEEPERS by Sophie Calle | In one of Calle’s first experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances, and strangers to sleep in her bed which would be continuously occupied for 8 days.
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reviews
Lit Hub | The Sleepers by Sophie Calle: “Like the sleepers themselves, Calle’s narratives reveal and occlude, beckon and turn away … [while] the photographs tell an intimate story.” —Karla Kelsey
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books
THE Hotel by Sophie Calle | Working as a chambermaid, Calle stashes her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, sorting through and surveying the evidence of the guests’ lives.
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✼ natalie’s upstate weather report:
Weather? Nothing to report for the entirety of 2025 because there wasn’t a moment to look up much less look out. (Look out!) Whatever the weather was, everything’s been burning: the world is on fire. There was some comfort in spending time in the company of the brave and bravely imaginative resistance fighter-artist-writer Claude Cahun; and some hope stirs crossing through some of Lucy’s 365 portals to see that there are other ways to envision and make a world. That’s not nothing. But really, not quite enough.
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“It Is What It Is” — Introduction by author Richard Kraft: “One of the English tabloid newspapers summed it up with its Cockney-rhyming slang headline: ‘No, it wasn’t a dream folks … THE WORLD REALLY IS DONALD-DUCKED’.”
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affinities
Print this! | Richard Kraft invokes Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi to respond to the Trump Presidency: “And it’s your fault I’m stupid.”
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✼ ex libris:
We tried. We really tried. A 1600+ page cautionary tale bearing witness to Trump’s first term was insufficient caution, it seems. If it was “a heat map of proto-fascism,” now we’re no more proto.
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Intermedia, Fluxus and The Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman
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the improbable
No. 1 Time Indefinite — TRACIE MORRIS: “There are intersecting communities of experimental artists … We are perpetually in conversation with each other across, time, space, beingness, perspective and geography”
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affinities
Appreciation | JOSHUA BECKMAN AT POETs HOUSE: “My hope is to share some of the exuberance I have found … in the things Dick Higgins put in the world.”
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affinities
List | Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press Lives On: A bibliography of Something Else Press reprints, facsimiles, etc. that evinces the enduring love for SEP
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✼ the improbable:
from Issue, No. 1 (Time Indefinite), “Dick Higgins, Publisher: Notes Toward a Reassessment of the Something Else Press Within a Small Press History” by Matvei Yankelevich: “To find connections between poetry, small press publishing, and the art scene of the early 1960s, one may look no further than Higgins’ own network.”
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No. 3 Lingual Music — IN THIS ISSUE & INTRO: Guest edited by Alex Balgiu and Chloé Gourvennec, this issue is a catalyst, a manifesto, a conversation across time, language and musical propositions.
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