@HillaryKelly

Reader of all the things. Critic of books, TV, and you.

Joined April 2009
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We'll be in disguise. Maybe. Or maybe not. You have to come to find out who we *really* are.
Farrar,Straus&Giroux@fsgbooks24 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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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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cc @tom_stackpole although I already know your voooooote
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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…

Gentle Parenting Is Too Gentle

And brutal as hell for us parents.

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Such a divine pleasure in reading a good but entirely unimportant novel.
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Briiiiiiing meeee to life.
Paul Holdengraber@holdengraber23 Mar 2023
“I would eat evanescence slowly.” ~ Emily Dickinson The Torments of Spring nybooks.com/online/2019/03/0…

The Torments of Spring | Christopher Benfey

I’m dreading the arrival of spring. It’s not that I prefer winter. But there’s something about spring that gives me pause. “You mention spring’s delaying—I blamed her for the opposite,” Emily...

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A global book critic forum to discuss this important cover.
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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…

This Novelist Is Pushing All the Buttons at the Same Time

A writer invents the ultimate fun-house novel for her exploration of biography and art.

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Look closely, and you can see the two of us, reflected back in this gorgeous monstrosity.
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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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@TheAtlantic23 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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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…

This Novelist Is Pushing All the Buttons at the Same Time

A writer invents the ultimate fun-house novel for her exploration of biography and art.

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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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Amazing photos and video work from @marklim, who managed to find so many different Catherines inside one body/one face.
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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…

Why Kids Aren’t Falling in Love With Reading

Hint: It’s not just the screens.

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Publishers Get Me the Zadie Smith Galleys Challenge.
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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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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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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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"She said she wanted abusers to know that even dying wouldn’t spare them from being caught." nytimes.com/2023/03/20/sport…

For Years She Said a Coach Abused Her. Now She Has Named a Legend. (Published 2023)

Jennifer Fox has long discussed what happened when she was 13 and her coach was 40. She even based a film on it. Now she has revealed the final detail: his identity.

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