@egabbert

That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all.

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OK I'll break my posting fast for Anne Carson: nytimes.com/2026/10/08/books…

Why Anne Carson, the New Nobel Laureate, Is the Easiest Difficult Poet (Gift Article)

Carson has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, our poetry columnist writes, but however much she toys with obscurity she remains too hilarious to be intimidating.

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Neil Young 1971@BohemiaStableOct 7
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Elisa Gabbert@egabbert18 Oct 2017
Replying to @KennyCoble
I think Anne Carson is a contender for the Nobel. Eventually.
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@LongreadsJul 8
"Someone once sent me a model of the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared into the ocean. But the best gift? What a terrifying question. My college education? If anyone ever gives me a human skull, that will be it." @egabbert answers the @longreads questionnaire longreads.com/2026/07/08/lon…

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Elisa Gabbert - Longreads

The author of Any Person Is the Only Self and recent Guggenheim fellow talks about the worst time of day, the value of wasting an hour, and chilaquiles.

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@ClunyJournalMar 19
"The essay allows us to enter the same state we enter in ritual, one where time feels layered, present over past, like a ladder we can climb up and down..." Time & the Essay by @egabbert, up now clunyjournal.com/p/time-and-…
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That's right, it's time for EVERY BOOK I READ THIS YEAR, WITH COMMENTARY! Happy new year! elisagabbert.medium.com/ever…

Every book I read in 2025, with commentary

My catchphrase for the year, the sentence I think I thought and said out loud most often: “I feel alienated from society.”

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I'm about to break my posting fast with a very important announcement.
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