Mairead Small Staid Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
Michael PaternitiMairead Small Staid@RussBrakefield Love that Barrett Swanson one. Also John Jeremiah Sullivan's Upon This Rock. And the Michael Paterniti piece that turned into Driving Mr. Albert. And Joni Tevis's Brain Sweat & Blueprints! And and and.
Paperback, 2005
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This Little Art
Kate BriggsMairead Small StaidThe new Kate Briggs is coming! THIS LITTLE ART blew the hinges off my brain, can't wait for her latest. https://t.co/uH5WWEF9G8
Paperback, 2017
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Gallery of Clouds
Rachel EisendrathMairead Small Staid@anthgarrett Oh, yes. Rachel Eisendrath's Gallery of Clouds is a wonderful recent one. Also, though the work engaged with is mathematical instead of literary, I think of Karen Olsson's The Weil Conjectures in this vein.
Hardcover, 2021
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Views of Jeopardy: The Yale Series of Younger Poets, V58
Jack GilbertMairead Small StaidA few years ago, I wrote an essay for @PoetryFound / @poetrymagazine about the too-little-known poet Laura Ulewicz, whose work I found via her relationship with Jack Gilbert. (VIEWS OF JEOPARDY is dedicated "To Laura Ulewicz / a kind of dragon.") https://t.co/VP17NA603Y 1/2
Paperback, 2011
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The Afterlife: Poems
Levis LarryMairead Small StaidIt's Larry Levis's birthday—the last day of a short month, autumn in the air—as good a time as any to revisit one of the most beautiful poems ever written: https://t.co/1Itsy2k8AQ https://t.co/rjZ6Mi6hlz
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That Old Country Music: Stories
Kevin BarryMairead Small StaidI'm ashamed to admit that I had, until now, slept on Kevin Barry. Don't let this happen to you! Every story in That Old Country Music is a stunner. https://t.co/9CergTbCVY
Paperback, 2022
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The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
Karen OlssonMairead Small Staid@anthgarrett Oh, yes. Rachel Eisendrath's Gallery of Clouds is a wonderful recent one. Also, though the work engaged with is mathematical instead of literary, I think of Karen Olsson's The Weil Conjectures in this vein.
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The Baudelaire Fractal
Lisa RobertsonMairead Small StaidLisa Robertson's THE BAUDELAIRE FRACTAL was one of the strangest, most invigorating reads of my last few years, and I'm thrilled to see her work explored so beautifully in the latest @LRB: https://t.co/EluDopHzOj https://t.co/GHYrw3oic3
Paperback, 2020
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Anne CarsonMairead Small StaidIt's Anne Carson's birthday. "The Glass Essay" lives in my mind and EROS THE BITTERSWEET runs under all my work and NOX stunned me at every turn, but my first Carson was PLAINWATER, and I love it wholly still. "I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime." https://t.co/av2WlwP4lp
Paperback, 2000
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Marguerite Duras: Writing
Marguerite DurasMairead Small StaidI used to think good writing had to be about bad things. I wrote about my conversion to the literature of happiness for @The_Millions, with assists from @GarthGreenwell, @tejucole, and Marguerite Duras: https://t.co/LmymXCUjEh @DeepVellum
Paperback, 2011
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