Jordan Kisner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jordan Kisner

Good morning, it is @elissawashuta day on Thresholds! We talked about the Catholic saints + how you know whether you're going to hell + the core mysteries of the universe + other low-key topics. Now streaming wherever your things stream and also at @lithub

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One of the pleasures of this book is its resistance to a clear and comforting verdict, its desire to dwell in unknowing. At every step, Aviv is nuanced and perceptive, probing cultural differences and alert to ambiguity, always filling in the fine-grain details.

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So excited to read and think and talk with Isabel and @laurakolbemd on the occasion of LITTLE PHARMA! Laura's extraordinary new book of poetry. Tomorrow on Zoom w/ @greenlightbklyn https://t.co/KzTEDIbfg4

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Butler takes a meticulous, immersive approach, offering a blow-by-blow narrative of the trials, tribulations, victories, affairs, and dissolutions of a busy cast of characters and theatrical institutions. Yet the avalanche of detail can be pedantic.

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I was so moved by this conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri about Ovid's Metamorphoses, her mother's passing, and how we reach each other (or don't) with language. Excited to share it with you all: https://t.co/c9BI4JeWHL @lithub @PrincetonUPress

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A detailed critique of the American fantasy that…adversity can be conquered through sheer grit…Nietfeld’s gifts for capturing the fury of living at the mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the hero’s journey even while she tells it, make “Acceptance” a remarkable memoir.

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A small thing: in today's Thresholds roundup, @edyong209 offers book recs, @RossGay18 tells me abt goumi berries, then @heyarthurmoon remixes Ross talking into a song called Swoosh Goumi & I tell you what I'll take delight where I can find it https://lithub.com/endnotes-on-the-world-around-us-ross-gay-adrienne-maree-brown-and-more-voices-from-thresholds/ @lithub

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This was hard to edit (in the best way) because @mbsycamore is the most joyful, engaged, and engaging conversationalist. She spins with so many threads at once, just like in her writing. Now up at @lithub and in all the streaming places. Also: buy THE FREEZER DOOR asap. https://t.co/6LK7OOuzlv

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This week is Sheila Heti week over at Thresholds, chatting abt her new novel Pure Colour. We talked about mourning, the invisible shape a book makes in the writer's body & why she conceived of God as 3 art critics in the sky. Listen here & via @lithub: https://t.co/XYA1cJkuIy https://t.co/d1c1BN697M