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Do you ever feel like you end up overhearing too much throughout the day? Here's an utterly electric paragraph from Joy Williams' The Changeling https://t.co/WKYtQ0l0N9

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"Like most autofiction, it seems to be...an exercise not only in perception, but also in the creation of self-identity for the sake of self-display." Tom Wilhelmus on Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux from @yalepress . Full review here: https://t.co/gOPkPRZP99 https://t.co/5KJ5ysBhFU

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“The denigration of Enlightenment principles and the acceptance of subjective feeling as ‘truth’ have proved exceedingly dangerous.” Brooke Allen on Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels from @AAKnopf. Read full review here: https://t.co/cDQ8d7zxfO #BookReview #litmag #NonFiction https://t.co/ewDMNGN0vV

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from Bruce Whiteman's review (HR Summer 2022) of "Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season" by Forough Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.

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“No matter what the personal views of the writer behind the initials might be, it is the job of the columnist to be contrary.”--James Campbell, “NB by J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement” https://t.co/BGEx4EGRDy

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“In poems of startling beauty and strangeness...[okpik] celebrates the cycle of life and death, even as she mourns the accelerating, human-wrought wreckage of climate change.” Meg Schoerke on Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik from @WavePoetry. Full review: https://t.co/idyRyaZY4s https://t.co/Ra3kljNgs0

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"Bond makes the ongoing death of Nature not an analogy for human deaths that the poems fear and mourn, but instead the signal loss against which our own obliteration pales." Meg Schoerke on Bruce Bond's INVENTION OF THE WILDERNESS from @lsupress https://t.co/idyRyaZY4s https://t.co/GMnjyZMW7S

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“One senses Pastan’s own autumn in this book, the poems like leaves maturing into color, and into a late and mellowed beauty.” Robert Archambeau on the late Linda Pastan’s Almost an Elegy https://t.co/syTyeHehlC

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"Like many other lonely women in London, Louise was having to learn the art of killing time cheaply, without pausing in a vacuum to admit defeat." —Monica Dickens, The Winds of Heaven (1955)

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@neongolden Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh: a Künstlerroman that stands the test of time. It forces you to identify with a rude tween from the Upper East Side and meditate on morality in art/writing. (Also only memorably butch protagonist I encountered as a kid! Besides Pippi.)