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Mairead Small Staid Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Author: THE TRACES (@DeepVellum, 2022). Essays: @ParisReview, @Southern_Review, @YaleReview, &c.

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Book Cover for: Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain, Michael Paterniti

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

Michael Paterniti
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@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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Book Cover for: Nox, Anne Carson

Nox

Anne Carson
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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

Hardcover, 2010

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Book Cover for: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay, Anne Carson

Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Anne Carson
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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

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Gallery of Clouds, Rachel Eisendrath

Gallery of Clouds

Rachel Eisendrath
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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.

Hardcover, 2021

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Book Cover for: Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin, Peter Orner

Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin

Peter Orner
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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!

Hardcover, 2022

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Book Cover for: Views of Jeopardy: The Yale Series of Younger Poets, V58, Jack Gilbert

Views of Jeopardy: The Yale Series of Younger Poets, V58

Jack Gilbert
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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

Paperback, 2011

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Book Cover for: The Afterlife: Poems, Levis Larry

The Afterlife: Poems

Levis Larry
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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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Book Cover for: That Old Country Music: Stories, Kevin Barry

That Old Country Music: Stories

Kevin Barry
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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

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: The Baudelaire Fractal, Lisa Robertson

The Baudelaire Fractal

Lisa Robertson
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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

Paperback, 2020

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Book Cover for: Marguerite Duras: Writing, Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras: Writing

Marguerite Duras
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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

Paperback, 2011

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