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Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice

— 03/09/2025
… - 4:35pm Fiction / Hybrid / Nonfiction Today’s guest, one of Australia’s most celebrated and daring writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her latest uncategorizable book Theory & Practice  (one she describes as 80% fiction, … & Practice is a book that is wildly erudite and erotic at the same time, both an engrossing, immersive read and one …
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Sheila Heti : Pure Colour

— 04/01/2022
… Hybrid / Nonfiction / SF/F Sheila Heti returns to Between the Covers to discuss her latest unclassifiable novel Pure … a painter paints or sculptor sculpts?), about the role of criticism and inviting other writers into the process of a book becoming itself, about the art critic characters in her …
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José Olivarez

… José Olivarez José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, and the author of two collections of … including most recently, Promises of Gold . His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal , was a finalist for the PEN … José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, and the author of two …
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Poetry

Layli Long Soldier : Whereas

— 12/02/2018
… 12/02/2018 - 2:00am Poetry “Long Soldier reminds readers of their physical and linguistic bodies as they are returned … language through their mouths and eyes and tongues across the fields of her poems.”—Natalie Diaz for The New York Times Book Review “Layli Long Soldier’s movement between collective …
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Alicia Jo Rabins : Fruit Geode

— 02/01/2019
… regret, reconsider its big and small moments: these are the passionate concerns of Alicia Rabins’ Fruit Geode , a book that I could not stop reading once I started, a book … regret, reconsider its big and small moments: these are the passionate concerns of Alicia Rabins’ Fruit Geode , a …
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Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

— 08/01/2022
… Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate Submitted by Anonymous (not … Fiction / Hybrid / Nonfiction Daniel Mendelsohn’s latest book you could say is about digression and about ring … concise, a mere 112 pages, but also somehow contains all the concerns of his previous books and much more, distilled …
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Rest in peace, David Rhodes (1946–2022)

Milkweed Staff
… three novels, all published to considerable acclaim in the seventies. It was John Gardner who first identified David … to read these novels, to find an acknowledgement in one of them of David’s agent, Lois Wallace, and then to reach out … read and critically reviewed. Driftless was named a Best Book of the Year by Christian Science Monitor and California …
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Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck

— 11/25/2024
… Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, … made by reading, but unmade by it? Dionne Brand’s latest book of nonfiction Salvage: Readings from the Wreck  returns to … Brand’s latest book of nonfiction Salvage: Readings from the Wreck  returns to formative texts from her own reading …
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Brian Blanchfield : Proxies

— 05/18/2016
… / Poetry “Into what some are calling a new golden age of creative nonfiction lands Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies , which singlehandedly raises the bar for what’s possible in the field. This is a momentous … its range, its daring, and its grace. I know of no book like it, nor any recent book as thoroughly good, in art …
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Naomi Klein : Doppelganger : Part Two

— 12/07/2023
… on Thu, 12/07/2023 - 8:59pm Nonfiction Today’s part two of the conversation with Naomi Klein about Doppelganger highlights the Jewish elements in the book, and looks at them through the lens of Palestine and … Today’s part two of the conversation with Naomi Klein about Doppelganger …