Madelaine Lucas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Madelaine Lucas

From “Happening” by Annie Ernaux, which documents realities of obtaining an illegal abortion in 1970s France with harrowing clarity. One of the writers I work with is an OBGYN & she told me she gives this book to her mentees. It should be required reading everywhere.

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So looking forward to being part of the celebration of the @witchcraftmag reissue of OTHER WOMEN by Nicola Maye Goldberg next Friday 9/30! In keeping with the theme, I will also be reading about other women 🔮💫 https://t.co/5hZ2PGzCaO

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Thrilled to see Thirst for Salt described as “a magical debut” with “a sense of retrospective lyricism that calls to mind Marguerite Duras' The Lover” in my hometown paper @smh! Grateful to Declan Fry for reading the novel so deeply 🙏🌊 @AllenAndUnwin https://t.co/Lyb4cLPYHe https://t.co/zgECkyyIrL

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It’s Lucia Berlin! I’m not sure if it’s been republished anywhere online but it’s in her collected stories A Manual for Cleaning Women

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A perfect Sunday buying way too many books @booksaremagicbk 💘 Look for signed copies of Thirst for Salt on the front table of the Smith Street location! @Tin_House ✨ https://t.co/zCVF6iVuLk

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If you miss the times of spontaneous intimacy (making a friend in the bathroom line, sharing a cigarette etc.) #LettertoaStranger is a cure. Thrilled to be included in this beaut anthology edited by @colleenkinder, which features a forward by @lsjamison + art by Jaya Miceli <3 https://t.co/o4QItXv1e3

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And now this!! An incredibly thoughtful review in @GuardianBooks by Bec Kavanagh, who read Thirst for Salt exactly as I hoped. In her words, “the most interesting relationship explored in the novel is motherhood.” https://t.co/a3uhPF5m3E https://t.co/BGEC9AyGzs

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@shyascanlon The Friend by Sigrid Nunez might be mg favourite dog book & was an inspiration for the dog character in my own.

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@e_m_doyle Cities I’ve Never Lived in by Sara Majka 💙 I read it at least once a year.

Madelaine Lucas

Went to the bookstore for 2 copies of Judas Goat by @GabrielleBates—one for me & one for a friend. Here to recommend you do the same & make twinning with poetry books a thing? 👯‍♀️💜 https://t.co/gPYgmR0R73