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Friday 🧵: Summer Reading Adventure 2

Hi readers. How’s your summer reading shaping up? I’ve converted the National Book Foundation’s Summer Reading Adventure into this copy-and-past…

Jun 28 •

Better late than never, I read Master Slave Husband Wife.

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Jun 21 •

Friday Thread: Summer Reading Adventure

😎📗Happy summer Friday. The National Book Foundation has created a fun summer reading adventure list and I’m hoping some of you might like to j…

Jun 14 •

My tribute to Alice Munro

And a new installment of BookStack Directory

Jun 13 •

BookStack Directory: Part 4

"D" is for Darlings-- some of my personal favorite BookStacks

Jun 13 •

Grief is the end of loneliness

Liliana's Invincible Summer by Cristina Rivera Garza

Jun 10 •

June Reading Provocation

Read some prize-worthy non-fiction. Take a summer reading adventure w/me!

Jun 2 •

Falco/Croft's A Perfect Cemetery

Two writers have created a beautiful collection together

Jun 1 •

May 2024

BookStack Directory: Part 3

C is for Channel Surfers/Channel Changers

May 30 •

Book Talk: Our Strangers

I talk Lydia Davis with Petya Grady, a favorite Substack neighbor

May 25 •

"In the end you're a different person"

My tribute to Alice Munro

May 20 •

Back-of-the-envelope Lispector

My scrappy notes on The Hour of the Star

May 12 •

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