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In this week's #LongreadsTop5 ⬇️ • One love story, hold the meet-cute • An uneasy partnership with a human rights abuser • The myth of Japanese minimalism • Essays as architecture • England’s last court reporters longreads.com/2024/10/18/top…

We at the Review mourn the loss of Gary Indiana (1950–2024). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. theparisreview.org/interviews/785…

"Because there is still time, time left over from time, every minute that you didn't die is time and a half"

Thinking about Gary Indiana has me wanting to keep writing my little books until I die

Pray to your gods, but as back-up, vote

BPL Librarians and staff members are pleased to share their favorite reads of 2024!🏆 📚 This is a genre-inclusive list of standout adult fiction and nonfiction. For the full list: discover.bklynlibrary.org/?booklist=2024… - happy browsing! #librarylife #books #readers

Good morning! It's time for every book I read in 2024, with commentary elisagabbert.medium.com/every-book-i-r…

Years have to keep ending so we can get the Gabbert reports:

if you want to watch a 45-minute video of me discussing every book i read this year here it is youtu.be/rvWs4_Xny60

Listening to 4′33″ at 2x to save time

"I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature." Ugh, I just love her----maybe the most humorless writer I love

I wrote about the many forms of reference in poetry, from quotes and doorknocker epigraphs to classic IYKYK allusions nytimes.com/2025/01/16/boo…

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Plath quoted that bit in her own diaries: "And she works off her depression over rejections ... by cleaning out the kitchen. And cooks haddock and sausage. Bless her. I feel my life linked to her somehow"

Book club, but I just read whatever I want whenever I want and then make people talk to me about it. We can have drinks too

We’re joined by the amazing poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert to discuss books we think about all the time. We each share 3 books that are always on our minds and discuss the reasons some works become an important part of who we are. Which ones would you pick? open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p/e…?

Sometimes, when I can’t write the line I want to write, I just describe the line I want to write instead, a formal substitute, which often makes a better, more mysterious line

RIP to the incandescent Alice Notley. There's innumerable things to say about her and her work, but here's something she said in an interview about Ted Berrigan a couple of years ago, and it seems as fitting a tribute as anything

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8

The thing I want and love in art is life force -- experience is very nice too, but if you don't have that yet (too young) it's life force