Caroline Hagood Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Caroline Hagood

Happy to find this thoughtful @pshares review of Weird Girls: "Its tone is casual and confiding, like that of a fellow artist mom whom you have met for coffee and gossip, and with whom the conversation is full of quotations from books by other women" https://t.co/jlad156uGb

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Citizen by Claudia Rankine and Minor Feelings by @cathyparkhong https://t.co/XHFAEo8Eiu

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"I dream of essays & essayists: real & unreal authors, achieved & impossible examples of a genre (it’s not the word, not at all) that would–what, exactly? Perform a combination of exactitude & evasion that seems to me to define what writing ought to be." —Brian Dillon, Essayism

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“Theory itself is often assumed to be abstract…To abstract is to drag away, detach, pull away, or divert. We might then have to drag theory back, to bring theory back to life.” —Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

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I loved talking about WOLFISH with the brilliant @ericajberry at @booksaremagicbk! As a teaser, here’s the first line of this braided, twisty, super smart book: “This is one of those stories that begins with the female body.” 🔥 https://t.co/k0n1FDdycT

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Good morning, I have distilled all my weirdness & put it into this @lithub essay & I really hope you will read it: "An Ode to Harriet the Spy, the Art Monster of East End Avenue: Caroline Hagood on Louise Fitzhugh’s Ferocious and Wonderful Girl Flâneuse" https://t.co/fotIp6zTQD

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In addition to reading his brilliant Blind Man’s Bluff, might I also direct harried professors (who desperately need to let off some finals steam by seeing their academic lives as clever, hardboiled farce) to read @JamesTateHill’s Academy Gothic… https://t.co/20i8Kmiy8y

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Happy #Bloomsday2022! “I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans.” —James Joyce, Ulysses

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"The arc is an elegant shape, especially when translated to its natural form, a wave...But something that swells & tautens until climax, then collapses: a little masculo-sexual, no? Why is this the form we should expect our stories to take?" —Jane Alison, Meander Spiral Explode

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@Smidgeon227 "To be fair, this book will not tell you about any, either. It will not say, Isn't X beautiful? Such demands are murderous to beauty. The most I want to do is show you the end of my index finger. Its muteness." —Maggie Nelson, Bluets (it's one of the most beautiful at least)