Priscilla Gilman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Priscilla Gilman

The quotation on the cover of Lore Segal’s Other People’s Houses is from my father’s @newrepublic review! They became dear friends shortly after the review was published.

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Taught this masterpiece to a book group today. Thank you to @legroff for an exceptional introduction to the new edition of The Transit of Venus & to @parul_sehgal for her brilliant @nytimes piece about the novel. Shirley Hazzard, my Mom's client, is a new favorite author! https://t.co/6RjQe4GuoY

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I reviewed BABYSITTER by Joyce Carol Oates for the Boston Globe: https://t.co/4gvx2bquNh

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I just completed my first day of Susan Cain's BITTERSWEET course & am feeling buoyed, steadied, & uplifted by her quiet wisdom & soothing, empathetic voice. Sign up for the course today! @susancain #mindfulness #art https://t.co/9yCaB2ohyf

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"He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music." James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, pub @OTD in 1916

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After writing a benighted piece defending Woody Allen last Nov, Wallace Shawn doubles down in interviews abt WA's new film, declaring that the legal system found WA innocent. Um, NOPE. Watch #AllenVFarrow & stop silencing or shaming survivors. #MeToo https://t.co/buS8aZlTMt

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Murakami’s first novel in six years is also one of his best.... is a paean to books, reading... and a timely fable about how relationships, societies, and communities both protect themselves against threats and foster beauty and truth.

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Also love spotting @MJSchulman 's massively entertaining Oscar Wars, my mom's brilliant client Darryl Pinckney's Come Back in September, & Jennifer Homans' marvelous Mr B, espec because The Critic's Daughter contains a riff on my father as Balanchine's Drosselmeyer.

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"Let us, then, be what we are, & speak what we think, & in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth." Priscilla Mullins (my great great " " " " grandmother & namesake) to John Alden, in "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was born #OTD in 1807 :)

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I’m also halfway through Zadie Smith’s forthcoming novel, The Fraud, set in Dickens’ London and featuring Dickens as a character; I’m loving it so far! https://t.co/fgjVslEpFm