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Yes! This is today. Feeling gratitude for so many in this process..... @UIowaPress
Happy pub day to WHAT MENNONITE GIRLS ARE GOOD FOR by @jennifersears.bsky.social! Find more new and forthcoming releases on our AWP Member Bookshelf. awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Member…
ALT Cover of WHAT MENNONITE GIRLS ARE GOOD FOR by Jennifer Sears, which shows blue quilting squares
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Amid all of the other tensions in the world, this looks worth watching
For more info: helixcenter.org/roundtables/…
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Fun rereading this. This line on VN’s process and emphasis on form/pattern jumps out: “The pattern of the thing precedes the thing. I fill in the gaps of the crossword at any spot I happen to choose.” #SundaySentence
“There is only one school: that of talent.”
In celebration of Nabokov, who was born on April 22, 1899, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from the archive. buff.ly/3TA6Xc4
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Powerful and carefully wrought piece about story ownership. And forgiveness: “I Stole My Neighbors’ Tragedy To Write a Short Story” electricliterature.com/i-sto… via @electriclit
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Next week in Brooklyn Heights!
NEXT WEEK, Thursday 8/17 at 7 PM ET: @booksaremagicbk will be hosting a discussion of @jamelbrinkley’s stunning new collection of stories, WITNESS, both in-person and online! Moderated by author and fellow APS contributor @GarthGreenwell.
Register: eventbrite.com/e/in-store-ja…
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Tonight at the Historical Society in Washington, Illinois, I’ll be discussing research and reading my own work about German POWs in the area, 1944-1945.
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Excited for this. And I’ll be in reading it in Rome when it comes out!
Early October. nyrb.com/products/lies-and-s…
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Strange, gorgeous story in @GuernicaMag: "To see a wolf was to be a wolf, for a minute. To be gone."
“There were scratches in the cloudy ice, the drag mark of each claw set an inch apart from its neighbor. The mark of a real big fucking paw.”
“Intelligent Creatures,” a new short story by Meghan Gilliss, is urgent and compelling throughout.
guernicamag.com/intelligent-…
"Fritz Lang said, No-we can’t jeopardize the cloud scam, MGM has a lot invested in this war at Troy, even beside the movie deals there’s spinoffs, casinos, reality shows.” From Anne Carson's "Norma Jean Baker of Troy." #SundaySentence (also supporting #SAGAFTRA and #WGA)
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As identical twins raised by a fraternal twin father, my sister and I are independent, but I do feel moments of familiarity in this essay on twinhood as lived ‘trope.'
"Twins are a horror trope because they accost us with what we already, uneasily, know: none of us is discrete."
The twin relationship is “totalizing and ambivalent,” Jean Garnett writes. How does marriage change it? newyorker.com/culture/person…
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“I have picked up the old stories and I have shaken them until the hidden women appear in plain sight. ”
-"A Thousand Ships” by Natalie Haynes #SundaySentence @officialnhaynes
Today and yesterday, Ephesus (Heraclitus) and Aphrodisia (Chariton, one of the earliest Greek novelists).
This weekend’s walk through Miletus, birthplace of Thales and Anaximander, followed by music in a Turkish taverna:
Essay on latest read with @APublicSpace and #APStogether:
On Reading "To the Lighthouse" beside the Ionian Sea, by @JenniferLSears open.substack.com/pub/siomni…
