Daniel Levin Becker

@dlb

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Paris, France
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  1. Jan 13

    Tomorrow! Or sort of. My body will be in Paris on Friday morning, but my soul, my soul will be in Harrisburg, PA on Thursday evening. Anyway, this isn't about me. Do join us.

    This Thursday 1/14 , join renowned author Kevin Barry for a live-stream discussion on his new collection of short stories on rural Ireland, That Old Country Music. (cc ) Register for free and secure your copy w/ signed bookplate here:
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  2. Jan 6

    Some songs for the year, pretty sure at least most of them came out in 2020 edition:

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  3. 31 Dec 2020

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    22 Dec 2020

    “I myself —like pretty much every writer out there—started a journal when lockdown began. I even had the grandiosity to announce to my students they, too, would keep one.” —Michelle Kuo on the genre of pandemic writing and Éric Chevillard's recent work.

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  5. 18 Dec 2020

    Today I learned that the French pronunciation of "gingko" is "JNCO"

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  6. 24 Nov 2020

    Today the Oulipo celebrates sixty years of defending itself more or less good-naturedly against persistent allegations of seriousness.

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    19 Nov 2020

    some good news to report — i'm super excited to say i'll be joining

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    20 Nov 2020

    PG.LOST (ex-Ghost, Cult of Luna) host album listening party TODAY, 11/20 on YouTube at 9am PST / 12 noon EST. 'Oscillate' LP out now on . Listen:

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    17 Nov 2020

    Hey, BIPOC writers, there's less than a month left to apply to be matched with one of us for a mentorship! If you've been planning to send an application, now's the time. (Also, please help us spread the word to emerging writers, including those who might not see this tweet.)

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    13 Nov 2020

    11 years ago today my movie 2012 was released in cinemas on November 13, 2009. . How would the governments of our planet prepare six billion people for the end of the world? They wouldn’t. .

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    12 Nov 2020

    🎂 L’Oulipo fête son anniversaire avec une lecture légèrement trilingue de textes et de souvenirs parcourant soixante années de créations, ruminations, et remémorations. Une lecture en ligne à retrouver ici :

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  12. 9 Nov 2020

    From 's forthcoming obituary in Le Monde: "'The mathematician,' [PR] said, 'is called back to his problem like a smoker to his cigarette. The smoker's pleasure lies in smoking, not in having smoked. It's the same for the mathematician and his heuristic pleasure.'"

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  13. 9 Nov 2020

    He joined the Oulipo in 1992 and, among other exploits, planned the itinerary that allowed Jacques Jouet to pass in a single journey through each of the 300-odd stations in the Parisian métro network. His first novel, Le Labyrinthe des jours ordinaires, was published in 2013.

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  14. 9 Nov 2020

    Rosenstiehl worked on combinatorics, probability, modeling, air traffic control, arborescence, and above all labyrinths and mazes. In 1944, at eleven, he would go out at night to reorient road signs in Burgundy to confuse Wehrmacht soldiers.

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  15. 9 Nov 2020

    Sad to report that Pierre Rosenstiehl, b. 1933, researcher and professor in graph theory and Oulipian, passed away on October 28 in Greece.

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  16. 21 Oct 2020

    Huge heartfelt thanks to everyone who participated in this weird little communal listening diary. (We did it! We rode out the entire pandemic!) Too many favorites to list. Here's the whole series:

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  17. 21 Oct 2020

    The Distancing series at concludes today with 's meditation on . He wrote it in May, but I saved it for last and I stand by that decision.

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    20 Oct 2020

    for , i wrote about mitski, cicadas, and the energy + idiocy of crowds. thanks to for humoring me, and for creating this series, which has been a point of light in the quar-induced haze of the past few months:

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    13 Oct 2020

    I’ve got a piece up today at about the irreplaceable John Prine, who would’ve turned 74 this past weekend. Thanks to for including it in his wonderful Distancing series - an archive I keep coming back to again and again.

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    8 Oct 2020

    I've been thinking about art's role in making sense of this moment, and specifically Ragnar Kjartansson's installation "The Visitors." let me write about it:

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