Mara Smith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"Literature is littered with the bodies of would-be lovers who gallop off the edge of reality." Read @xwaldie on Dorothy Tse's smart and unsettling novel "Owlish," which is set in an alternate version of Hong Kong during the 2019-2020 protests. https://t.co/ihM0elC6Vl

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"Names, Lacey proposes, are merely vessels, as X so brazenly demonstrates, and anything can be poured inside." Audrey Wollen on Biography of X, oysters, quilts, bohemia, marriage, feminism, art monsters and evil https://t.co/S7NRZSuBHB

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Interesting that Elizabeth Hardwick commissioned Norman Mailer's attack on The Group *and* wrote her own unsigned parody making fun of the novel, and Mary McCarthy just . . . forgave her?

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RT @MoiraDonegan: In other news, I reviewed “Matrix,” Lauren Groff’s vivid and delightful nunsploitation novel of female ambition, for the…

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One of Charles Simic's last poems in the New Yorker / all you really need in life?https://t.co/ZtNJsXWMiS https://t.co/KwSjEi9unY

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"Why, the novel seems to ask, is it necessary to sequester life within certain borders, and to guard those borders so obsessively?" @xwaldie on Emi Yagi's Diary of a Void. https://t.co/xvLYoth08z

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RT @kunktation: I wrote for @bookforum about Mark McGurl's new book EVERYTHING AND LESS: THE NOVEL IN THE AGE OF AMAZON https://t.co/ihmfgB…

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This essay about the life and work of Margaret Wise Brown is fantastic, and reminds me how much I love The Runaway Bunny. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/07/the-radical-woman-behind-goodnight-moon

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Spent some time casting around for fun + diverting books to read this weekend and unfortunately went with Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood