Bennington MFA Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“‘The Last White Man’ has an additional agenda: to destabilize not just our toxic imaginings but our conventional notions of fiction itself.” David Gates (Faculty) reviewed Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel for @nytimesbooks. @riverheadbooks https://t.co/3UPO2czzfa https://t.co/RZei56AIK2

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"It’s one of the most charged, elegant, and surprising openings of any I’ve read." @Adavidryan (MFA '99) wrote a mini book review of Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s THE AFRICAN SHORE for @commonmag. https://t.co/Zvx5mSG1JU https://t.co/3z2C6OERQj

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Congratulations to @QueSaraiSera (MFA '03), whose book, THE CHERRY ROBBERS, has landed a spot on the @CrimeReads list of "The Best Gothic Fiction of the Year: 2022." 📖 https://t.co/AuDJ0dTc3m

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“She pictures her sport-yellow duster rising against the sky like a raptor...” @eliburrell's (MFA '12) hybrid, belletristic essay, “Zoom, Zoom into the Great American Dark: Reading the Smithereens in Greg Brownderville’s Fire Bones” @Hopkins_Review. https://t.co/JegNRl6bED https://t.co/5KgLjaN2Qg

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.@poeticallymag is open for submissions to issue #05, themed “Sonder." The motif for the issue is inspired by one of the neologisms from John Koenig’s ‘the dictionary of obscure sorrows." https://www.poeticallymag.com/submit https://t.co/NxsWKapkXl

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“An immersive experience of a particular complex community which is both beautiful and dangerous” @ellenpcampbell (MFA ‘09) reviewed THE LAST KARANKAWAS by @kimberlygarzaa for @WIRoBooks. https://t.co/ChVc4ndBBO https://t.co/7RoRA7DLV6

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Congrats 🎉 to members of the Bennington community who have books on @NewYorker's "The Best Books of 2022 So Far" roundup. THE HERO OF THIS BOOK, by @elizmccracken (Faculty) and HOW STRANGE A SEASON, by @mayhewbergman (MFA '10), landed on the Fiction list. https://t.co/soNPIUIeWe

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“Murray does wonders in capturing the zeitgeist — and the wondrous chaos — of transnational Americans.” @rsiasoco (MFA ‘01) recommended Sabina Murray’s THE HUMAN ZOO for a piece from @sfchronicle on the best books to read during #AAPIHeritageMonth. https://t.co/zY5XjRnYPV https://t.co/60ZgV3SlPP

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"Vulnerability, it should be said, is one of the preeminent conditions of parenting." Guillermo Rebollo Gil (MFA student) reviewed Tom Whyman's INFINITELY FULL OF HOPE for @StillpointMag. https://t.co/s0mYmXIi3t https://t.co/Lr7qkaL52B

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"Hopler is too wondrous a poet to not want to claim a sense of proximity to him on this dripping, storm-lit island afternoon in 2022..." - Guillermo Rebollo Gil (MFA candidate) published a review of Jay Hopler's book STILL LIFE in @rivermouthrev https://t.co/3LZuomHc2s https://t.co/48xYjwVpCi