Reader of all the things. Critic of books, TV, and you.
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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"
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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…
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A “Love Affairs of Nathaniel P”-style satire of the cultural elites, but set 10 years later, so that the plot deals with Brooklyn intellectuals fumbling in the face of rising authoritarianism and being inadequate to their historical moment, in addition to being bad boyfriends.
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Oh my god. A survivor of the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting is a current student at Michigan State.
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Even I am distracted by the extreme skinniness of many of the models in Jason Wu’s show #NYFW
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Just as a factual matter, the mainstream backlash to American Dirt kicked off with two reviews in the section of The New York Times that was then edited by Pamela Paul nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opini…
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Some of you seem not to realize that you can go back to a book and get more out of it ... a book is not a depletable resource
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To tell you the truth, Transit of Venus is the perfect novel. Hazzard heads of the world, unite!
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Marvellous piece here, by @HillaryKelly; like all the best criticism, it brings the particular virtues of its subject into fresh relief and makes you want to read or reread the original stuff. newrepublic.com/article/1697…
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At 24 Shirley Hazzard had written, “I am starved for affection and love and security and this makes me what I am.” Her subsequent feast on knowledge turned her into the writer she became, @HillaryKelly writes. on.tnr.com/3Inx15W
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Is there really any literary person who has *not* fantasized that, like Shirley Hazzard, they would simply arrive in New York and start impressing everyone by declaiming poetry at parties newrepublic.com/article/1697…
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A lifelong striver who wrote about lifelong strivers, Shirley Hazzard was perpetually dissatisfied with the world she grew up in, writes @HillaryKelly. newrepublic.com/article/1697…
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In 2022 I read 89,794,238 books. In 2023 I hope to read 91,946,003 books. Right now, as I write this tweet, Im reading a book. Two books actually. And listening to an audio book. Also, I’m writing a novel and a short story. Did I mention I’m running a 10K, my third so far in 2023
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I. The Burial of the Dead
Op-Ed is the cruellest bait, breeding
hot takes out of the dead land, mixing
pablum and vagueness, stirring
dull thoughts, how inane
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I talked to @xlorentzen, @NadjaSpiegelman, @markkrotov, and @rmpanovka about Bookforum's legacy and the difficulty of sustaining literary magazines newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
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My favorite thing about editing our bestseller list is watching two titles fight it out every week:
"All About Love," by bell hooks
"All About Me!," by Mel Brooks
