Matt Ortile Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Matt Ortile

Though it’s true we want more queer stories out there with less suffering, it’s important to remember that conversion therapy is still legal…in a majority of states in the US. Conley’s well-written memoir provides a clear window into a truth that needs to change.

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i thought about reading Matrix by Lauren Groff next, lol

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when Bey said “i vow…..to love thy hater” i first heard it as “love like Pater” as in Walter Pater, the 19th c. essayist and author of THE RENAISSANCE, in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense inner life, and i thought “yes this makes sense”

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SWAN DIVE is an amazing title for a ballet memoir; more power to Georgina 🇵🇭 but wow yeah this bit stings: "The brave part wasn’t writing the book. 'The brave thing,' [she] said in an interview, 'is going to be walking into the rehearsal studio Aug. 3.'" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/arts/dance/georgina-pazcoguin-swan-dive.html

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When Jenny Tinghui Zhang @pantaloonies started writing her debut novel FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY, her Nai Nai was surprisingly supportive: “No one should bother her when she is writing. She needs her full focus and concentration.” https://t.co/rftls12Hib

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happy pub day to @tajjaisen and her debut book SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS!! it features incisive cultural critical personal essays that make you feel smarter for reading them bc you just spent 240 pages with one of your brightest friends—congrats, Tajja!! 💐 https://bookshop.org/books/some-of-my-best-friends-essays-on-lip-service/9781982178420

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"I’m scared my vulnerability / makes me responsible for what / people do with us." so proud that we get to publish a new poem at @CatapultStory: "Complicit Poem," by Sara Borjas, author of HEART LIKE A WINDOW, MOUTH LIKE A CLIFF: https://t.co/bo10AQRpC2

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happy book pub day to Kuya @albertsamaha’s CONCEPCION! 💛✨🇵🇭 join us tonight at 7pm ET as he and i discuss his book at an event hosted by @aaww @riverheadbooks @WarbyParker AND @booksaremagicbk; IRL tix are sold out but you can tune in via http://youtu.be/HdhL00Gt0Vc https://t.co/PZyDXD6A5h

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The art of tweeting isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be tweeted—should they become content, it’s no disaster. (Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”)

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To skip his ex’s wedding, [protagonist Arthur] Less embarks on a round-the-world trip wherein he learns, at last, what love looks like: unexpected, arresting, and life-affirming—much like this brilliant book.

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