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"Thrust asks a thorny question about the purpose of a novel: what does one make of a book that teaches us how to read it so well that it reveals the limits of its own vision?" @l_silvieus reviews the new Lidia Yuknavitch https://astra-mag.com/articles/scars-or-wings/

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“Rowbottom leaves ample room for ambivalence, and while Aesthetica is pitch-black and occasionally distressing, it is never didactic. What is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ is often hazy.” Philippa Snow reviews Allie Rowbottom’s debut novel: https://t.co/RfXfT6jSMV

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“I can’t write today. All I can do is masturbate while listening to Monchy & Alexandra.” A new essay from Andrea Abreu, whose debut, Dogs of Summer, is out now from @astrahousebooks! https://t.co/dYhQVcY0G6

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"An initial draft of my book was twice the length—the half that was cut included digressions into the history of telecommunications, recording/repro technology, the music industry, a long section on Nicholson Baker’s discussion of zippers in The Mezzanine" https://t.co/veMI5bndsa

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“I’m inspired to act where I can.” @MakennaGoodman1 interviews Vigdis Hjorth, whose novel Is Mother Dead, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is out this week from @VersoBooks: https://t.co/HZWkk0JI1c

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“The novel reserves its sharpest satire for the arts-aligned characters.” @SophEAtkinson considers the tug of war between science and the arts in The Man Without Qualities.

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“As a book of personal essays, Translating Myself and Others is less about translating or others than it is about the ways in which translation refracts Lahiri’s multiple selves.” —Julia Sanches https://astra-mag.com/articles/two-sides-of-the-same-coin/

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“I saw the story of my mother the day that I was far from my mother.” We spoke with @edouard_louis and Tash Aw about the writing and translating of A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, out now @fsgbooks: https://t.co/tz5hUIpHQV

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“My third grade, from that point on, became a less defined time.” A new essay on childhood from Yiyun Li. (And her next novel, The Book of Goose, is out next week @fsgbooks.) https://t.co/b6fyHlTxVB

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"It is hard not to be swept up by a novel that works so well, on so many levels, particularly when Khalid dangles the lure of plot: How exactly did this family come about?" @Noqasimshere on Brother Alive: https://astra-mag.com/articles/something-like-vellum/

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