Erin Overbey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Erin Overbey

Sunday reading from @NewYorker archive: this week, to commemorate Earth Day, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces on the climate change crisis—w/stories by @ElizKolbert, Bill McKibben, Rachel Carson, Nicholas Lemann + more. #NewYorkerArchive https://t.co/xV9Qo9GTJH

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For my latest @NewYorker Classics archive newsletter, I wrote about @colsonwhitehead's poignant short story, "The Match" (2019), an excerpt from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Nickel Boys," which probes the concealed corners of America's past. https://link.newyorker.com/view/5bd66d3b2ddf9c619437dd6aff11w.ayn/3dd44a88 https://t.co/3FYVlAf7ze

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The Turkish writer Ayşegül Savaş on her new short story “Long Distance,” in this week’s issue of @NewYorker. Her acclaimed novel “White on White” came out last month. #NewYorkerFiction https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/long-distance https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1485606534021357570

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My @NewYorker Classics newsletter this week is on Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Gogol” (2003), an excerpt from her novel “The Namesake,” which was adapted into a film by Mira Nair. W/one of my favorite lines: “That’s what books are for—to travel w/out moving an inch.” https://link.newyorker.com/view/5bd66d3b2ddf9c619437dd6adaqyn.e3n/ef3c68a1

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Sunday Reading: Literary Chronicles. My latest archive collection for @NewYorker is about the lives behind literary masterworks—w/W. H. Auden on Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov on ‘Speak, Memory,’ Edna O'Brien on James Joyce + more. #TNYarchive https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/sunday-reading-literary-chronicles

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“the barn swallows’ sharp / flight and cry, who now has the luxury of emptiness or peace, / the beauty of thunder in a place where there is rarely thunder, / the mind like a jackrabbit bounding, bounding” —diane seuss on fascism in america, frank: sonnets https://t.co/oYyPnvEdiI

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I’m joining the @nytimes bestselling author @lesleymmblume & journalist @janinedigi for a discussion on John Hersey & the story behind “Hiroshima” for the @nypl’s New Yorker Treasures panel on May 24th. Should be a fantastic event. Grab your tickets now! https://t.co/ZSCdTi0i5m

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For my latest @NewYorker Classics archive newsletter, I wrote about Primo Levi’s short story, “A Tranquil Star” (2007). Levi balances the astonishing with the wonted, artfully offering a meditation on the beauty, and the cacophony, of the unknowable. https://t.co/FKAmYkWuHU https://t.co/isNy7AiSae

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Let this sink in. In the history of the Academy, not a single Black female filmmaker has ever been nominated for Best Director. Not even Julie Dash for Daughters of the Dust...what?!🤨 https://t.co/uizNBcU94Q

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The legendary actor Sidney Poitier has died at age 94. Here’s Kenneth Tynan’s original @NewYorker review of the Broadway production of “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959). At the end of the premiere, Poitier jumped down & pulled Lorraine Hansberry onto the stage. https://t.co/NNBUIaasSn