LaidOffNYC Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"There are plenty of memory specters in 'Home Video,' but the most interesting experiment occurs on “Partner in Crime" @vitachronicles writes about her favorite track from @lucydacus' latest for our Songs of Fall series. https://t.co/nwjbY5V4IJ https://t.co/H2n4Q09GyS

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"Repulsed by “matter,” by “inflamed, deformed bodies and the ad-covered, polluted outdoors,” Li is drawn toward the “friendlier dimension of the imagination…” Li’s trip is a journey outside of mainstream thought." @soup_pics on @tao_lin's latest https://t.co/Xf6joDU90e

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"One simply has to read Smith to understand how her writing persuades us to see otherworldly things in the everyday, things only she can see." Claire Franken on Patti Smith's Key to NYC and her 2019 memoir, 'Year of the Monkey.' https://t.co/7WcQEm8yZr https://t.co/uOnqTWFHp8

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@sarasara_sck Side note: This is the 100th piece we've published since our return in January and we are very proud! Huge thanks to all our editors: @3lettersnot4, @Lily_H_Smith, @raphaelhelfand, @David_Kobe, @mikidery, @Girmaniumalloy, @FermishtK, @RexxDoty, Guillermo Manning and Rapha Grumer

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"Despite Lin’s reputation as a stylistic provocateur... 'Leave Society' takes the shape of an auto-fictional bildungsroman: alienation, growth, ultimately finding a way to live in the world." @soup_pics reviews @tao_lin's latest https://t.co/Xf6joDU90e

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“A caustic social commentary existed beneath its romance novel façade, dripping with irony and demanding the reader’s complicit cruelty in mocking its heroines and heroes.” @FermishtK on Jane Austen adaptations and what they get wrong. https://t.co/o6olELZdht

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This Labor Day evening, read @fixin2die’s insights into the laborers of tomorrow, inspired by @abenanav’s “Automation and the Future of Work” https://t.co/DQZtqiCx1d