Brian Dillon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“Lives of the Critics; or, Et in Arcadia Ego“ Rebecca Ariel Porte @___OED___ on Rachel Eisendrath’s Gallery of Clouds and the literary genre of the “life in criticism”. (Which might despite and unknown to myself be the only genre I’ve ever written in.) https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lives-of-the-critics-or-et-in-arcadia-ego/

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For @IrishTimesBooks, my review of Darryl Pinckney's memoir about his friend and mentor Elizabeth Hardwick, "Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan". (Including EH on martinis: "They explode the whole head.") https://t.co/yNVbRZmcyE

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I'm in this week's @4_columns summer missive, reviewing Terry Eagleton's "Critical Revolutionaries". https://t.co/Z2Syx0KkHQ

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"Julia Margaret Cameron's niece" was of course Julia Stephen: philanthropist, author of "Notes from Sickrooms", and mother of Virginia Woolf

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alongside genial poetic conceits there are works here of abiding strangeness and profundity… Carson can seem a rarefied, scholarly, or forbidding poet; but such moments as the lament of the sky, inseparable from erudition and wit, connect her work to the world in startling ways.

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My @4_columns review of Deborah Levy's novel AUGUST BLUE. https://t.co/CMbvdXf0fC

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As part of the @Dauntbooks festival, I'll be talking about AFFINITIES with the great Michael Bracewell, whose books, especially UNFINISHED BUSINESS and SOUVENIR, you should plan to buy when you come along – 5:30pm on Friday 17th March https://t.co/vfncV3XxKS

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For @4_columns, I wrote about Olga Ravn's short, strange, queasy novel The Employees (translated by Martin Aitken). https://t.co/vYza0Y2FnA

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An extract from ENSAYISMO in today’s @el_pais. Spanish edition of ESSAYISM translated by Inmaculada C. Pérez Parra, and published by @AnagramaEditor. https://t.co/vLkq5TW6fB

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FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS is published today by @FitzcarraldoEds – congratulations to @pawboy2. Looking forward to conversation with IP and Olivia Laing at Foyles on 4 May https://t.co/7AQDdkJRGe