Mairead Small Staid Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mairead 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.

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It'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

Mairead Small Staid

It'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

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@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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@Peter_Orner Thank you so much! And I'm looking forward to Still No Word From You—your publicist kindly sent a digital galley, but I know I'll want to turn real pages on this one. Soon!

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A 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

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It'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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I'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

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Lisa 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

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I 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