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"If everyone was defined by the worst things they’d ever done, then we’d never get a happy ending. And we deserve that, don’t we?" - @C_GraceT https://t.co/fBSSWi7wQk

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"Did you read Pizza Girl that came out last year? That book fucking rules. It’s so fascinating and it feels like a queerness I haven’t been able to see in this kind of way in mainstream literature." - @Kristen_Arnett on @gojeanfraziergo's debut novel. https://bit.ly/3isYwOT

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"What is most compelling about @caseyparks' Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active history of a place that most people are unfamiliar with." - @ancillarytext https://t.co/ydVxYaiktL

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"Emezi’s ability to immerse the reader into multiple characters’ realities and tell a story that isn’t just one narrative but infinite is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, even as Emezi creates something entirely new in Vivek." https://t.co/4nKoxHrYG8

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Present and future tarot readers: our next A+ Read a Fucking Book Club book will be @megjoneswall's Finding the Fool: A Tarot Journey to Radical Transformation! Bring your questions for Meg to our pop-up discord server on May 3rd at 5pm PST/8pm EST. https://t.co/t6X398pRXn

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Poet and musician Sadie Dupuis (@sad13) talks with @yashwinacanter about new collection Cry Perfume, scent and memory, and using autocorrect as a co-writer. https://t.co/VMMKl7ySUg

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In You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Akwaeke Emezi is an expert at crafting characters and worlds that feel real, even as they're drenched in fantasy and wanting. Read more in @Chinelos_Tweets’ review. https://t.co/aqtCrzBnso

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“Having parts of me spread out across oceans, in two continents, in multiple buildings and people feels like perpetually being in layover.” Read @padyatheleo on names, language, mispronunciations, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake https://t.co/XNECosanwQ

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"I have seen some angry women in fantasy stories before, but I have never felt the kind of fury pulsating off of them the way I did with queer water-bender Nehal." @theheatherhogan LOVED @HadeerElsbai's debut fantasy novel, The Daughters of Izdihar. https://t.co/4JopD9HoUy

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Knocking Myself Up isn’t just for people considering parenthood. Read @ancillarytext’s review of @TeaMichelle’s expansive new memoir. https://t.co/rv61hxrLLB

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