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View fullsize Just before some larger mistake. Carl Phillips wins the mf-ing Pulitzer. Poetry lovers rejoice. This one from Reconnaissance. #carlphillips #bookstagram
View fullsize Read this at 3am, in a jet lag mania, will be haunted for the rest of time. What a perfect piece of art. Foster next. #clairekeegan #recommendedreading #bookstagram
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View fullsize I wrote something about the mother wound. Link in bio.
View fullsize Thou shall not get old. From “L.A. Love Cry” by Wanda Coleman, collected in “Native in a Strange Land” which is sadly out of print. #wandacoleman #recommendedreading #bookstagram
View fullsize As I said in my @airmailweekly profile, Susanna Moore is one of the most compelling novelists alive. THE LOST WIFE publishes today and here’s my recommendation: I started it in the afternoon. Then my husband caught me parked in front of the hou
View fullsize She’s still in there. @davepeterson & @triste_juventud forever. 💙
View fullsize Catherine Lacey’s brain is extraordinary and this novel is the literary, suspenseful, faux-artist bio I didn’t know I needed. It surprised me by filling a Donna Tartt/Siri Hustvedt/Ali Smith shaped hole in my heart, but with Lacey’s
View fullsize Or. From “The Beauty” by Jane Hirschfield after listening to her on @ezraklein. #smdpoets #janehirschfield #bookstagram
View fullsize Some wrestling with my “favorite” writer. Link in bio. Thank you thank you thank you for reading.
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View fullsize TLDR: if you like poetry, New York City literary lore, and coming of age stories, this is an exceptional book. Now the rest… I almost didn’t post this book. Not because of its merit but before it’s so niche and in a way, odd. My f