Elise Blackwell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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RT @cpburkejr: Having recently finished Rivka Galchen's EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH (which is excellent), I'm now very interested…

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“Rather than virtual or second life, social media is actually becoming life itself.” Digital Vertigo by @ajkeen begins, winningly, with a Sebald epigraph and the Auto-Icon.

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This works in writing as well as reading: "Handwriting, by contrast, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin." --Ruth Ozeki in A Tale for the Time Being

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The podcast About Buildings & Cities has a two-part broadcast on W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, which is described here: https://t.co/Dah5oLH287

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Before I start the serious cooking and instead of wondering if my twice-cancelled honeymoon will become my thrice-cancelled honeymoon, I'm starting Meng Jin's Little Gods. (#FridayReads even on #ChristmasEve)

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RT @official_foz: Delighted that Benjamin Labatut & @a_nathanwest's When We Cease to Understand the World – supported by #PENTranslates – h…

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“One Potato blends cauterizing satire with a deeply humane worldview. It manages to be—all at once—fast-paced and thoughtful, hilarious and consequential, disturbing and delightful.” —Elise Blackwell, author of Hunger and The Lower Quarter https://twitter.com/AWolfeful/status/1519367528274817024

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The guilty pleasure of cracking the spine of a new hardcover: beginning Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were this evening. #FridayReads

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Terrific list of unconventional diaries, including Teju Cole's Sebald-influenced Blind Spot, from @carablueadams: https://t.co/FONHALh6wa

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Discussing a Yiyun Li story in class today. I love her so much: reading banned books in the PLA, studying immunology, scribbling marginalia across Tolstoy and Trevor, breaking hearts with expertly faceted stories, talking to students with steely kindness....