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So very cool to be here celebrating two Burroughs Awards for Nature Writing for @WIlliamBryantLo -- "The Things Trees Know" on @Orion_Magazine thanks to @KerriArsenault, and his book, SPROUT LANDS https://t.co/cMho96Yw31

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I might have just stumbled on the answer in Cal Flyn's excellent ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: Nature Rebounding in a Post-Human landscape. Not that NYC is Post-Human but copper and zinc in the soil next to building seems very possible? https://t.co/jtL5l6BwRl https://t.co/6z5PKjLwYS

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"And Daunt loves books... he’s just finished “a completely marvelous and astonishing novel”; it’s “This Other Eden” by Paul Harding...." !!! Column: Barnes & Noble saved itself by putting books first. Imagine that https://t.co/B80WAgT1LI

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Dara Horn's PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS -- a Natl Jewish Book Award Winner, NYT and @ALALibrary Notable Book, Chicago Public Lbrary Best Book of the Year, and more -- makes the shortlist of "books challenged in Massachusetts libraries in 2022"! https://t.co/eSVu4EOLze

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"In his latest book, Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop, Martin Puchner writes that such cultural preservation and passing down through the generations is about the “know-why” versus the “know-how” of life." Thanks @jennybhatt for engaging @martin_puchner's book! https://t.co/9xKZ6BOITO

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“[The Undertow] induced a physiological response similar to the one I experienced while reading Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Both books are mood-altering, mind-altering odysseys....”: Yes, @jeffsharlet is that good. https://t.co/xS2Id1awtK via @theamscho

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"As the travel writer Elizabeth Pisani noted in her invaluable book, “Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation," there is little that unites the people of Aceh at the northwestern end of Indonesia with those in West Papua...". https://t.co/dMpZ0VSAos

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Tiya Miles’s sublime WILD GIRLS by @TiyaMilesTAM, coming in September, is featured “Read, Review, and Recommend” on @NetGalley this week — https://t.co/YVrumEBT9Y. Read, share, and cherish!! (Thank you @TiyaMilesTAM @TanyaMcKinnon1 @WWNortonLibrary)

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I tried to take a picture of @vauhinivara 's THE IMMORTAL KING RAO with a Pulitzer sticker I had left over from Stephen Greenblatt's THE SWERVE in 2012, but the shine was too bright! (spring sunshine from Norton's south-facing windows) Will try again in cooler light of the am!

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And while I was digging ramps from the mud by a stream with my old boss, look what a breathtaking thing was happening for @vauhinivara's IMMORTAL KING RAO! Family Saga. Capitalist Satire. Climate Thriller. Debut Novel. https://t.co/YTyek4OfCx