Declan Fry Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Declan Fry

…the cinema at the Sony Centre, anxieties about her level of education, how men and women create art, the epistolary correspondence of Theodor Adorno and Thomas Mann…anyway it’s pretty great

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Wrote about one of my favourite new releases, Elaine Castillo’s How To Read Now – incredible writing on race, colonialism, Austen, Didion, Atwood, Wong Kar-wai, Park Chan-wook and more https://t.co/HvhQuXVadU

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Beneath plain-spoken surfaces unexpected depths are often revealed, glinting with flashes of playful seriousness, humour, and grand, existential strangeness – a sense of how the past occupies us until, one day, we come to occupy it

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‘Helen Garner said she was brought back to Hazzard’s work by Michelle de Kretser’s book – I love writers learning about writers from other writers.’ @OlubasB on Shirley Hazzard at @MelbWritersFest

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Looking at the list of blogs in Kate Zambreno’s Heroines. wild to think all these writers once had blogs *at the same time*. early 2000s were a golden age https://t.co/qWHbOALGHx

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Anne Carson, ‘The Beauty of the Husband’ https://t.co/2MS5m2izrp

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“Gunaydin is more concerned with imagining the demise of capitalism than twiddling her thumbs hypothesising how the world might end.” Wrote about @eda__gunaydin’s Root & Branch https://t.co/V3X8r3APcQ

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Wrote about the new Jennifer Down and the kind of emotional investment that novels like Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life or Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain ask for from the reader. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/01/bodies-of-light-by-jennifer-down-review-remarkably-empathetic-tale-of-vulnerability

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@Marisagrizenko Nilling and Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip (photo’s from the Whip!)

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Speaking of love, Sydney Writers Fest itself is next week! On Thursday Eda Gunaydin, myself and Delia Falconer will be discussing criticism and the latest Kendrick Lamar record. Friday I’ll be chatting with Claire G. Coleman and Eda Gunaydin https://t.co/RhMuWdA5T1

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