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Rachel Syme is a staff writer at the New Yorker. woman about town. staff writer @newyorker. also: writing a book for @aaknopf + a coffee table book for @penguinrandom. away from here, mostly.

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Book Cover for: Happy All the Time, Laurie Colwin

Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin
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if you are looking for the perfect book to read over one languid holiday summer sunday, i MUST suggest laurie colwin's "happy all the time"

Paperback, 2010

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer, Kennedy Fraser

Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer

Kennedy Fraser
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There are certain writers whose sentences snap you back to life... and Fraser, with her beautiful adjectives and popping syntax, always pushes me to want to do better... I keep rereading the book to try to divine her formula, but it still feels like magic to me.

Paperback, 1998

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round, Jami Attenberg

1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

Jami Attenberg
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So thrilled to be a part of @jamiattenberg’s new 1000 words book, offering up a few little things I learned about channeling your inner jacqueline susann 💕🍸❤️

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Book Cover for: Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us, Rachel Aviv

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv
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file under: absolutely devoured

Paperback, 2023

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Vladimir, Julia May Jonas

Vladimir

Julia May Jonas
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Reading Vladimir right now she @Julia_May_Jonas does this so well https://t.co/8BR6MT0kEz

Paperback, 2023

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel
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the wolf hall trilogy made and remade my mind, but my very favorite hilary mantel was her 2003 memoir "giving up the ghost" in which she wrote the lines: "Trust your reader, stop patronizing your reader, give your reader credit for being smart as you at least.”

Paperback, 2021

$20.99Member price:$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney
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they released the first photos from conversations with friends and in terms of casting extremely hot people, sally rooney has done it again https://t.co/v19BTtqVBR

Paperback, 2018

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes), Kate Lebo

The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)

Kate Lebo
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if you are interested in debating produce, might i suggest a great book i read recently? it's called "the book of difficult fruit" by kate lebo and it is 20+ little essays on the history of lesser-known berries and stone fruits etc. with recipes! https://t.co/EiVWXe90zX

Paperback, 2022

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist), Maggie Shipstead

Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)

Maggie Shipstead
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still thinking about maggie shipstead's the great circle tbh

Paperback, 2022

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks: The Psychology of Adult Learning, Bert Nemcik

You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks: The Psychology of Adult Learning

Bert Nemcik
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@ijk64 Our guy is a puppy but according to the train or you can teach an old dog new tricks! he had a very wild older Rhodesian Ridgeback board with him for a while and totally turned that guy around

Paperback, 2015

$6.49Member price:$3.24 + Free shipping50% off your first book