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In honor of her birthday, what's your favorite Jane Austen novel? Mine would be "Mansfield Park." And my favorite Austen adaptation would have to be the Bollywood-style "Bride and Prejudice" (2004)

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Just in time for summer, Mona Simpson kicks off Book Post’s Summer Reading of Middlemarch! 1. Skip the preface; 2. What Woolf & James got wrong about Eliot. Join us! The world is chaotic, take refuge in the mighty spirit of George Eliot https://t.co/nnsqIhluqC

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Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required "chronicles the fascinating history of plant-based eating in the United States, from the early experiments in tempeh production undertaken by the Farm commune in the 70s" to Burger Kings' Impossible Whopper. Out August 14! https://t.co/cFnhXiwvp5 https://t.co/0nrFmV1Q3e

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For more from @robertcottrell: a review on John McPhee's "The Patch" (available to Book Post subscribers) https://t.co/vqZnSGn6Y0

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As you read about Gary Snyder's "Collected Poems" (which was opened up this week) also consider an old #Diary by Wendell Berry, a dear friend of Snyder, which was published in a series alongside work by Snyder and Guy Davenport. https://t.co/nHpe6LDBwX

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Helen Morales' "Pilgrimage to Dollywood" This unusual and entertaining book by a classicist and author of Myth: a very short introduction, explores the cult of Dolly Parton; the approach enters the zone where celebrity and divinity merge.

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#haventreadmuch about the Arab Spring? @KimGhattas, who recently reviewed "You Have Not Been Defeated" by @alaa for Book Post, recommends: @JobyWarrick's Red Line @robertfworth's A Rage for Order @Raniaab's No Turning Back Our Women on the Ground (editor @ZahraHankir)

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#haventreadmuch modern fiction about math? Tracy Daugherty (who recently reviewed Cormac McCarthy's "The Passenger" and "Stella Maris" for Book Post) recommends: Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" Don Delillo's "Ratner's Star"

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What happens in the boudoir, stays in the boudoir. Or rather, is candidly captured by Sally Rooney in her latest novel: BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU. @MacmillanUSA. Read Peter Brooks' review now on #bookpostUSA https://books.substack.com/p/review-peter-brooks-on-sally-rooney

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For Geoffrey on noir: This fall, @LibraryAmerica will publish Geoffrey O'Brien's two-volume collection of crime novels of the 1960s → https://t.co/WyervkrknZ And you can read his study Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir → https://t.co/HcpRX5FzmA https://t.co/6iLFbxRCOb