Reader of all the things. Critic of books, TV, and you.
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24 Mar 2023
We'll be in disguise. Maybe. Or maybe not. You have to come to find out who we *really* are.
24 Mar 2023
BIOGRAPHY OF X author @_catherinelacey will be at @PoliticsProse to discuss her new book with @HillaryKelly tomorrow at 3pm ET. RSVP for in-person or to join the livestream! ❌ politics-prose.com/event/boo…
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24 Mar 2023
So let's just say you HAD to choose between going to Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard and you'd never been to either... Is one the obvious winner? (N.B. with kids)
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24 Mar 2023
Nodding so hard at this @amil piece that my head might fly off. May have yelled I AM A PERSON TOO in a moment of desperation last week.
thecut.com/2023/03/is-gentle…
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24 Mar 2023
Such a divine pleasure in reading a good but entirely unimportant novel.
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23 Mar 2023
Briiiiiiing meeee to life.
23 Mar 2023
“I would eat evanescence slowly.”
~ Emily Dickinson
The Torments of Spring nybooks.com/online/2019/03/0…
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23 Mar 2023
A global book critic forum to discuss this important cover.
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23 Mar 2023
I tried to profile the novelist Catherine Lacey, who struggles to organize all her selves.
She's just written a bona fide masterpiece whose protagonist is an unstable new element in the periodic table of literature.
This is what I came up with instead:
theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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23 Mar 2023
Look closely, and you can see the two of us, reflected back in this gorgeous monstrosity.
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23 Mar 2023
Because I cannot get enough, I’m going be in conversation with @_catherinelacey on Saturday at 3 pm at @PoliticsProse to talk about this brilliant brilliant novel.
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Hillary Kelly retweeted
23 Mar 2023
In her new novel, @_catherinelacey explores whether an artist can bury herself so far under work that it becomes impossible to find the traces of an authentic self, writes @HillaryKelly. on.theatln.tc/KlpLKqF
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23 Mar 2023
In which @_catherinelacey wishes her own name weren’t on her novels...
@HillaryKelly dives into Lacey and her "Biography of X"
theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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23 Mar 2023
Catherine Lacey's fiction will not solve your problems.
Here's my not-quite-a-profile of one of *the* novelists of this (my) generation.
theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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23 Mar 2023
Amazing photos and video work from @marklim, who managed to find so many different Catherines inside one body/one face.
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22 Mar 2023
I wrote something for @TheAtlantic about kids and why they don't read the way they used to. It's not just screens. @MacKidsBooks #TheLostYear #mglit #reading #kidsbooks theatlantic.com/books/archiv…
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21 Mar 2023
Pitting Dickinson against Whitman for anything but the Finals is an act of war against my personal theory that every writer is at heart Dickinsonian or Whitmanian, can't be neither, can't be both.
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21 Mar 2023
Want to be clear that I aired this theory to none other than HILARY MANTEL and she didn't find fault with it! (She was also exceedingly polite and kind, so it might have some holes.)
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21 Mar 2023
If there is one recentish book I could go back and write about it would Caroline Fraser's Prairie Fires bc sure it's a bio of Laure Ingalls, but really it's a stick of dynamite under the notion of Manifest Destiny and an evisceration of standard American West mythology.
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20 Mar 2023
"She said she wanted abusers to know that even dying wouldn’t spare them from being caught."
nytimes.com/2023/03/20/sport…
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