Haolun Xu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I have finished reading The Makioka Sisters by Junichirō Tanizaki…. it was a major learning moment for me when it comes to writing and structure…. (also reading Kathleen Chisato Merken’s 1979 thesis on Tanizaki’s work…) https://t.co/hbKVZlrCvE

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“What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe Of Heaven.

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“What’s in the sea and the waves that keeps you spellbound? Here earth breaks out in wildflowers, she rills and rolls, […] Come here to me. Let the mad white horses paw and pound the shore.” —Seamus Heaney, Electric Light. https://t.co/r3ojzDSX9m

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“Closure is more comforting than self-abandon, in the long run. It feels good to lie in the middle of a field in the pitch dark, until it doesn't […].” —Carl Phillips, The Art of Daring. https://t.co/BSKUYUmImt

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Congratulations K. on your debut, over and over again— @k_ivertown— their collection SHORT FILM STARRING MY BELOVED’S RED BRONCO is available here, really really it is…so, so breathtaking. https://t.co/vDyPF3ga9N

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“Go away. I love your departures. I give you complete freedom.” —Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts.

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I cannot say how happy I am that @ginathechung’s novel SEA CHANGE is out soon. I can’t wait to read it.. I am also so honored that she picked one of my poems as an epigraph— 🥲💫 https://t.co/D7tusVRxVI

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“He lay there dead with his eyes wide open. I'm supposed to say I saw that I screwed up. But all I see are flames. Is that him dead or is that me?” —In The Pines, Alice Notley.

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@rosewaterframes Snow Country, by Yusanari Kawabata! Love In A Fallen City by Eileen Chang, Family by Ba Jin! Kokoro by Natsume Soseki!

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I got “Intimacies, Received,” by @BambrickTaneum in the mail Sunday….. I have read it twice over now, and will continue to read for many years. It is a crucial and amazing book…. Thank you so much Taneum for writing this 😭💐🍓 https://t.co/hft5PWLnaC