Annie Sand Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Books that have done this for me in the past: Rings of Saturn by Sebald, Bluets by Maggie Nelson, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke, The Winged Seed by Li-Young Lee

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@Madiii03 No, Emily Dickinson barely left her house, as did the Brontë sisters (for the most part). To me the idea that you have to have a crazy life to write well smells a bit masculinist and anti-intellectual

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Confession: I read Joan Didion’s book The White Album in grad school and didn’t like it. I just finished a “give it another chance” read and . . . I still don’t like it.

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“Whatever river you drink from, forgetting does not erase your past. It only hides what wrecks you carry into the next life.” -Melissa Febos, Girlhood

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Unpopular opinion (?): of Shirley Jackson’s novels I think We Have Always Lived in the Castle is far better than The Haunting of Hill House

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Ordering a A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon (please consider this my obligatory Queen Elizabeth tweet).

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Books that have done this for me in the past: Rings of Saturn by Sebald, Bluets by Maggie Nelson, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke, The Winged Seed by Li-Young Lee

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@IamRageSparkle My bae is a big Neil Gaiman fan and hates most of the other adaptations but so far really likes Sandman

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“There where anxiety reigned, where the symptom ordered the quotidian, there where obediences came to tether the future to the past—might deliverance be possible?” -In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle

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“Art unmakes the world made by work.” - Eula Biss “Having and Being Had”