Virginia Quarterly Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Happy pub day to @LydiaConklin for their debut story collection, RAINBOW RAINBOW, out today! Their story “Sun Prairie Events” is featured in our Winter 2021 issue: https://www.vqronline.org/fiction/2021/12/sun-prairie-events

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Today marks Herman Melville’s birthday. Celebrate by reading an analysis of his work in “The Seaward Peep: Three Writers Respond to Moby-Dick” by Morgan Meis from our Summer 2011 issue: https://t.co/ayZuUzgoJT

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@AmandaJBermudez considers art, identity, knowledge, and place in her short story “The Real India,” first in VQR’s Fall issue & from her book, STORIES NO ONE HOPES ARE ABOUT THEM, published by @UIowaPress: https://t.co/QXdoYxeYaI

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Ralph Ellison was born on this day in 1914. Robert Coles’s 1981 “Even Yet the South” places the INVISIBLE MAN author in a larger context, arguing that, “for Ellison and many other black writers, the South is the black man’s spiritual home.” https://t.co/dL4agZfOFE

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"BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF is the first book in the series. James received a lot of press for describing the books as an 'African Game of Thrones,' but that description is misleading." @surlybassey looks at @MarlonJames5's Afrofuturism in "An Outside Man." https://t.co/TMU63u7mqz https://t.co/pJuwX6e71l

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William Butler Yeats was born on this day in 1865. Adam Kirsch writes in our Summer 2007 issue that “the strong rhythms, the lofty rhetoric, the prophetic point of view, all make his poems sound more like incantations than ordinary speech.” https://t.co/KUR5xL9HRD

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@boylesfarms’s new story collection, SITE FIDELITY, is out tomorrow! Get a sneak peak with “Alto Cumulus Standing Lenticulars,” featured in our new Summer issue. Illustration by Dani Choi. https://t.co/UA41zo7nAM

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GOOD TALK, @mirajacob's new book, is out now. Here is "Notes to Self: On the Growing Pains of Race," an interview between her and @VQR about her process and development of this book. https://t.co/Xlwea0osAp https://t.co/Ctiva5RF2o

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Walt Whitman was born on this day in 1819. In our Spring 2005 issue, published in celebration of the 150th anniversary of LEAVES OF GRASS, Richard Tayson’s essay explores the poet’s work and sexuality. https://t.co/QGxqQGSFnz

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VQR's poetry newsletter features weekly poems from poets such as Kaveh Akbar, Victoria Chang, Rita Dove, Ada Limón, Adrienne Rich, Natasha Trethewey, William Carlos Williams, Charles Wright, Kevin Young, and more. Sign up today! https://t.co/hqBMBbk03h https://t.co/ZQiDvHHV8Q