David Hayden @seventydys Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

David Hayden

@seventydys

11 months

‘Clouds of Albion, For Max’, a new short story of mine published online @stingingfly

3

7

88

Last Seen Profiles

@DabbleDoodles

@gunp_m

@Zidan72127618

@Ilja_Polakovs

@aiskdr061

@CameraManZac

@ditibzentral

@IyarKeerthi

@nakkd72

@AngelLegionEN

@SaintJoeSports

@RegiVarv

@quuoaa

@gugugulee

@orquideasmortas

@Jessicalessin

@gauthamzzz

@ahmedfaresalham

@tujiangbaby

@tanamachip

@burntromanclwt

@ilovenanako775

@Ackerma02073402

@hoshina_mizuki

@kate__litman

@bExyzbSujH7zwKx

@mask250071

@BinorRaja

@mahikhan825202

@stw_pdg

@Kamali_Thompson

@RazorHowl

@wsedcrftvg30576

@MM41447133

@tzlmdyn265335

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Moby Dick and the Pequod, painted by one of my kids as their Christmas gift to me.

213

283

8K

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

What did I know Robert Hayden, ‘Those Winter Sundays’

56

337

2K

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

you are being suffocated Joe Wenderoth, ‘Early Capitalism’

16

453

2K

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 years

before the news comes Molly Brodak, In the Morning, Before Anything Bad Happens

10

628

2K

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Sky feather

13

114

1K

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 years

Last night, I was seized with the urgent need to call my mum, certain that I had some important news for her, before I realised, in one sharp moment, that what I wanted to say was she had died on Saturday morning.

141

15

866

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

Agnès Varda. Thanks for the joy and the rage. (Picture from issue one @anothergaze .)

4

321

808

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Russell Atkins, poem

7

89

553

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

Nathaniel Dorsky's essay 'Devotional Cinema' is one of the small number of cinema books (including Bresson's 'Notes On the Cinematograph' and Tarkovsky's 'Sculpting In Time') that for me are useful in thinking about writing. Would happily hear of more.

31

46

495

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

simple happenings Kozan Ichikyo, 'Empty-handed...', tr Yoel Hoffmann

1

95

450

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

Leonard Michaels’s ‘I Would Have Saved Them If I Could’ is one of the great short story collections of the 1970s, or of any decade.

19

22

429

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 years

each of us Adrienne Rich, III, Twenty-One Love Poems

4

114

346

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

where I get off Grace Paley, ‘I See My Friend Everywhere’

2

53

345

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

The drunkenness of things being various Louis MacNeice, ´Snow’

7

100

331

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

the roots Charles Olson, ‘These Days’

5

69

306

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

I grew up in a household without the means to buy new books. Without my local libraries I doubt I’d have made it as far as higher education, still less have begun to write. This strangulation of the library system will have socially regressive consequences for generations.

Municipal Dreams

@MunicipalDreams

6 years

Nearly 130 public libraries closed across Britain in the last year

4

63

38

4

83

279

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

A Valentine’s Day message from Jean Rhys.

0

42

261

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

Save me Henry Dumas, ‘Thought’

3

38

267

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

This essay on men reading, and not reading, women writers is the piece I'm most glad I wrote this year. If you like the look of the writers mentioned, you might find it handy as a present list for the book people in your life.

David Hayden: “Men Still Too Often See Their Writing as the Canon”

One winter afternoon in 1981, I was between shifts as a kitchen porter in a big sea-front hotel in Blackpool. I had a brown manila pay packet in my pocket with £16 and change in it. I stood in a br…

lithub.com

7

74

223

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

The drunkenness of things being various Louis MacNeice, Snow

4

65

226

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 years

You'll have heard this before, but if you like a writer's work, and you get the opportunity, please tell them. (This happened to me yesterday and it's really made a difference to how I look at a blank page today.)

3

39

205

David Hayden

@seventydys

4 years

gesture of moral support

4

39

194

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 month

Reading this next.

4

18

197

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

A publisher once told me that a writer’s enthusiasm for the work of Witold Gombrowicz was an infallible predictor of their failure.

10

8

192

David Hayden

@seventydys

4 years

Beautiful page spread from Alasdair Gray’s ‘1982, Janine’ translated by Enrico Terrinoni, out recently from my Italian publisher @SafaraEditore .

3

35

175

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 years

the sail Marguerite Duras, ‘Bonnard’, from ‘Practicalities’, tr Barbara Bray

7

45

176

David Hayden

@seventydys

4 years

because I am shattered Louise Glück, The Red Poppy

0

44

168

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Totally gripped by Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel ‘Kairos’, translated by Michael Hofmann ⁦ @GrantaBooks ⁩. A writer that many more readers would enjoy discovering.

9

17

161

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 years

A new biography of Mina Loy, 'Apology of Genius', by Mary Ann Caws, is coming next March from @reaktionbooks . Essential, I think, for all poetry and modernism types.

9

31

164

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

My short essay on Bruno Schulz now up @GrantaMag (Thanks @lukeneima )

Best Book of 1934: Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe) | David Hayden | Granta

David Hayden on why Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe) is the best book of 1934.

granta.com

8

38

150

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

the dropped stitch Louis MacNeice, ‘Conversation’

3

36

152

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

turn off the lights in another life Patrick Modiano, from ‘The Black Notebook’, tr Mark Polizzotti

4

35

149

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

the mystery Richard Siken, ‘Visible World’

1

32

148

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

All the complicated details William Carlos Williams, Winter Trees

1

54

146

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 years

Michael Andrews, 'A Man who Suddenly Fell Over', 1952

4

24

145

David Hayden

@seventydys

11 months

Very much looking forward to 'My Cinema', a volume of the writings of Marguerite Duras on her exceptional films. Translated by Daniella Shreir. Published next month @anothergaze .

1

28

145

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Jess Cotton's superb critical biography of John Ashbery, which I commissioned, is out in April and available for pre-order from @reaktionbooks . Grateful for generous endorsements from Mark Ford and @jntod .

10

18

137

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Was it to please me that I saw Bernadette Mayer, ‘Dante’

1

33

139

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

I wrote a short essay for @lithub on how men and women read and are read, and why it matters.

David Hayden: “Men Still Too Often See Their Writing as the Canon”

One winter afternoon in 1981, I was between shifts as a kitchen porter in a big sea-front hotel in Blackpool. I had a brown manila pay packet in my pocket with £16 and change in it. I stood in a br…

lithub.com

7

48

136

David Hayden

@seventydys

11 months

Sven Lindqvist’s short book, ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’, continues to be the history of the present. Essential reading.

4

31

133

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

always on fire Sophie Collins, Untitled from Who Is Mary Sue?

2

39

128

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Rather than relitigate nonsense claims about how a glover's son couldn't conceivably have been Shakespeare, Stephen Unwin wrote 'Poor Naked Wretches': a stimulating and original book about the dramatic representation of working people in Shakespeare (which I helped publish).

8

22

123

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 years

bad books W.H. Auden, in ‘Reading’, ‘The Dyer’s Hand And Other Essays��

4

27

128

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 months

Coming up to fifty years old, William Gaddis’s inversion of the American dream, a vertiginously energetic, relentlessly satiric novel, ‘J R’, continues to accelerate into relevance. Current edition from @nyrbclassics has an intro by the essential, Joy Williams.

1

16

126

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

My new short story, ‘Parades Gone By’, is online to read @GeorgiaReview (in print next month).

6

17

119

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

Fewer than a thousand people bought Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons on its release in 1914 but every single one of them went on to form a band.

1

18

113

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 months

Reading Olga Tokarczuk’s superb novel ‘The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story’ over the weekend made me return to Bruno Schulz’s great, warping, inky deep story ‘Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’, as translated by Celina Wieniewska.

7

12

113

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 month

Twenty years ago I commissioned and edited Norman Thomas di Giovanni's memoir of Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he translated most of Borges's stories and poems. This collaboration is a compelling reason for these translations to return to print, aside from their other merits.

1

24

113

David Hayden

@seventydys

7 months

Talked to a publisher at the London Book Fair about the diff. of publishing short stories (those who do *really* love them but there aren’t that many of us). It made me think of Jamel Brinkley’s ‘Witness’—one of the best books I’ve read in the last few years in any mode or genre.

7

13

109

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

Written as a serial Witold Gombrowicz’s richly enjoyable 1939 horror comic suspense gothic mystery, ´The Possessed’, is a successful attempt to write a ´good bad novel’ that draws on Walpole, Sue & Feuillade. Excellent to have this complete tr by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Out October.

1

14

110

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 months

Just don’t act too surprised William Gaddis, from ‘J.R.’

3

21

109

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

this old love of mine Umberto Saba, from ‘New Lines for Lina’, tr Stephen Sartarelli

3

21

103

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

become less attached Francis Ponge, ‘The Trees Decompose in a Sphere of Fog’, tr C.K. Williams.

0

21

106

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Mieko Kanai’s Mild Vertigo is a flowing, immersive narrative held taut over 8 chapters that contrasts existing & living, seeing & viewing. A horror story about tedium that pushes the reader tight up against the unmanageable moments of everyday life & the domestic. Tr Polly Barton

2

15

103

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 months

My youngest went through my published stuff, selected some covers she liked, made an image which she got framed, and gave it to me as a surprise present.

6

2

103

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 years

you are being suffocated Joe Wenderoth, ‘Early Capitalism’

0

37

103

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 months

Just arrived from @reaktionbooks (my day job), ‘Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms’ by the great Mary Ann Caws. A wide-ranging collection of essays on Mallarmé, Dora Maar, Kay Sage, Tanning, Cornell, Hedda Sterne, Unica Zürn and many others.

11

10

100

David Hayden

@seventydys

7 years

what life was for Anne Sexton, Just Once

0

37

105

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

Jack Spicer’s essential 'A Book of Music', reissued after 65 years by @pilotpressldn

2

12

103

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 months

I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks , an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

1

56

101

David Hayden

@seventydys

8 months

wild beauty James Schuyler, ‘Closed Gentian Distances’

0

29

100

David Hayden

@seventydys

8 months

Anne Truitt’s journals are a generous, lucid, exploratory and at times painful account of making and sustaining an artist’s life. Rare insights on the artist as parent, on grief and more. The first, ‘Daybook’, was published last year in the UK with an introduction by Celia Paul.

5

15

99

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

A new story from me, my fifth for @GrantaMag . With thanks to Josie Mitchell.

How It Works | David Hayden | Granta

New fiction from David Hayden.

granta.com

7

12

97

David Hayden

@seventydys

4 years

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that while Angela Carter’s influence continues to pervade, her work isn’t as recommended as much as it used to be. Anyway: read this, you might like it.

12

11

98

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 months

I will make a silence for you W.S. Graham, ‘If It is Only for You I Speak’

0

33

98

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 years

always felt in the wrong Marguerite Duras, from ‘Practicalities’, tr Barbara Bray

2

20

97

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 years

to extract Mina Loy, ‘Gertrude Stein’

1

18

93

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 years

something that had no price Sean Bonney, In Fear of Memory (after Pasolini), from Still: 7 Love Poems

0

28

92

David Hayden

@seventydys

4 years

more of it than we think Louis MacNeice, Snow

3

26

91

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

midnight with the dead moon in its jaws Jason Molina, from 'Farewell Transmission'

6

12

91

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

one flower Giuseppe Ungaretti, ‘Eternal’, tr Patrick Creagh

2

20

90

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 months

Very absorbed in Marguerite Duras, ‘My Cinema’. An excellent collection of writings and interviews, translated by Daniella Shreir, published recently ⁦ @anothergaze ⁩.

0

17

91

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

suffocated Joe Wenderoth, Early Capitalism

0

29

89

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 years

love them anyway Jericho Brown, The Trees

0

23

87

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 months

John Ciardi’s ‘How Does A Poem Mean?’ is out of print but still well worth seeking out as a companion & primer to reading and writing poetry. A contemporary approach to this question would be very welcome. As would similar on ‘how does a story mean?’ and ‘how does a novel mean?’

0

9

87

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

learn to live again Anna Akhmatova, ‘The Sentence’, from ‘Requiem’, tr Judith Hemschemeyer

1

29

87

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

"You are all your work has. It has nobody else and never had anybody else." Maeve Brennan in her letter to Tillie Olsen.

4

23

85

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 months

Olga Tokarczuk’s novel ‘The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story’ is richly entertaining, captivating and thought-provoking. Despite its acute engagement with ‘The Magic Mountain’ it’s more Hoffmann than Mann, which works in its favour. Pub Sep @FitzcarraldoEds @riverheadbooks

7

9

88

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

This is a treasury of thought and argument on writing. Not least the essay ‘Not-Knowing’ and ‘A Symposium On Fiction’, which features Donald Barthelme, William Gass, Grace Paley and Walker Percy.

7

4

83

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

all we are Italo Calvino, from ‘Nothing and Not Much’, tr Tim Parks

2

21

84

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 months

Peter Weiss, ‘Die maschinen greifen die Menschen’ (‘The Machines Attack the People’), 1935

1

17

87

David Hayden

@seventydys

3 years

One of my favourites on here is @Andr6wMale . I particularly appreciate his music posts, which I find an excellent source of great discoveries. In any well-ordered world he’d have his own radio programme.

3

1

86

David Hayden

@seventydys

5 years

all fear gives way Louise Glück, The Undertaking

1

38

83

David Hayden

@seventydys

7 years

So my book has just gone to print with these fine words from Eimear McBride, Kevin Barry, @sineadgleeson and @DavidCollard1 . Out Sept 1st.

16

25

79

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

wake, the future Louis MacNeice, from Autumn journal

0

31

86

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks . We're open to unsolicited book proposals and read them all year round: art, music, film, history, food studies, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

5

30

83

David Hayden

@seventydys

7 years

Our whole life is an Irish Sea Robert Burton, from The Anatomy of Melancholy

5

34

80

David Hayden

@seventydys

6 years

all livin language is sacred Tom Leonard

2

24

82

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

sickly and adored Guillame Apollinaire, ‘Sickly Autumn’, from ‘Alcools’, tr Anne Hyde Greet

1

21

77

David Hayden

@seventydys

1 year

Maeve Brennan’s New York essays in ‘The Long Winded Lady’ are prodigiously entertaining, feats of wit and perception from a watchful, lonely eye. A new edition with an excellent intro by @sineadgleeson @PressPeninsula coming Jan 2024.

1

12

80

David Hayden

@seventydys

2 years

Jess Cotton’s excellent critical life of John Ashbery (which I commissioned for @reaktionbooks ) is published this week, with admiring quotes from Oli Hazzard, Mark Ford and Jeremy Noel-Tod.