Emmie Francis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Emmie Francis

When one can’t travel the world (and one can’t really find utopia) here is @Anna_Neima’s superb first book: from the Bruderhof to Atarashiki Mura, to Trabuco College and Darlington Hall + more, THE UTOPIANS is an amazing (& dreamy) feat of research and synthesis. Out next week! https://t.co/aBEDvRJOaU

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Start the year right. https://t.co/aD0rN48QI6

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Yes, invoke THE Gillian Rose. Yes, say it's "beautiful, strange and completely compelling". Thank you, Olivia Laing. Be in touch for proofs if you want to enter the void. THE REACTOR by @clickblackburn, from @FaberBooks in January 2022. @John_S_Ash @Connor__Hutch @Niri_Bharadia https://t.co/UO8rLz2wbX

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'We weren’t always mean. We weren’t always nice. We worked hard to surprise ourselves.' A slice of BRUTES in @GrantaMag. https://t.co/RgSb4lVj9M

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“Eight years after Venturini’s death, having ensured her literary reputation at home, this becomes the author’s first work to be translated into English. And it’s not hard to see why it made an impression.” Our lady Aurora Venturini’s COUSINS astutely reviewed by @jonniemcaloon. https://t.co/n3HUln1UdD https://t.co/sqCJoIFbWC

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Janet Malcolm’s burdock prints should make up the book covers of an entire series of essential essays, diatribes and treatises. https://t.co/Zp1r4wrjJE

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@keirangoddard1 If you read the selected letters between him and James Laughlin there is an episode where the two of them have to climb over the walls of the monastery after a night out. Truly wonderful.

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"You're in trouble because of what you've done in dreams." Scintillating bedtime listening (c. the 50th minute) as Lerner invokes the great Jacqueline Rose's MOTHERS & the oppressive danger/power created when actions are perceived to have been done in other imaginative realms. https://t.co/BSTYhq2LH9

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Supremely elegant and beguilingly cool finished copies of SOJOURN by Amit Chaudhuri are in. Design by the legendary Pete Adlington. Out in August! https://t.co/CgDZqYhGZv

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I had a blast on R4 Open Book talking with @johnypitts & @RobDoyle1 about Cormac McCarthy's new novels. Among other things the chat ranged from jazz, the Santa Fe Institute, preaching and C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures. On @BBCSounds/next Thursday at 15.30. https://t.co/VSFfX5GIVk