clifton lee Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Within that white, all of those white things, I will breathe in the final breath you released. - Han Kang, The White Book https://t.co/OhL5ZYr8D9

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@austinkleon Not loneliness, but solitude. An essay. Montaigne, 'On Solitude.' For the place where the two intersect I tend to be drawn to journal-type works, such as May Sarton's 'Journal of a Solitude.'

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It's publication day for my friend Kim Michele Richardson's latest novel. (Author of bestselling 'The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek' among others, and the wrenching memoir 'The Unbreakable Child.') Her sense of place and time in her native rural Kentucky is haunting. https://t.co/FzAX34Dkym

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@BronwenDickey Kate Chopin 'The Story of an Hour' Mary Shelley 'The Invisible Girl' Virginia Woolf 'The Mark on the Wall' Flaubert 'A Simple Heart' Chekhov 'The Black Monk' Turgenev 'Bezhin Meadow'

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I didn't accomplish as much as I wanted/needed to this week. But, one thing I did accomplish, was to read @sgcarney and @JMiklian's new book, 'The Vortex.' Masterful narrative nonfiction, involving many moving parts that are structurally woven in the most compelling manner.. 1/2

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“No, Father. I’ve a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.” - Rieux, in Albert Camus' 'The Plague'. https://t.co/nCZ27jjC36

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Addendum: Some argue that Clover Adams was at least in part the other Henry's (James) inspiration for 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Portrait of a Lady'.

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Addendum: Some argue that Clover Adams was at least in part the other Henry's (James) inspiration for 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Portrait of a Lady'.

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“What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism...More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'..." Martin Amis, 1949 - 2023. I almost wrote 1949 - 1923. Time's arrow, etc... https://t.co/5RIuE5EcsO

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“...and soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.” – Robert Penn Warren, ‘All the King’s Men’ https://t.co/6crmENltag