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BuriedInPrint
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📚📝🔁 Work: Chicago and LA Reviews of Books, EVENT, Literary Ladies, prism international, The Temz Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and World Literature Today. Member: @bookcritics
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 3d
It's finally happened, I'm caught up with reading all of the lovely literary links that @bookjotter.bsky.social compiles when she's not #reading and #bookbuying and Moomin-ing. Here's the latest!
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Winding Up the Week #441
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce Nonfiction November 2025, reveal an exciting new book-about-books, keep …
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 12d
Prévisions de COVID pour le Canada : SEP 27-OCT 10, 2025

GRAVE : aucun
TRÈS ÉLEVÉ : MB, TNL, NÉ, SK
ÉLEVÉ : CAN, AB, CB, NB, Nord, ON, ÎPÉ, QC
MODÉRÉ : aucun

Environ 1 personne sur 60 est actuellement infectée au Canada.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 12d
Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC,
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
This image shows gauges with the Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 7.5 Alberta: HIGH - 6 British Columbia: HIGH - 5.8 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 12.1 New Brunswick: HIGH - 6.3 Newfoundland & Labrador: VERY HIGH - 10.2 North: HIGH - 9.2 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 11.6 Ontario: HIGH - 6.3 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 7 Quebec: HIGH - 9.6 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 12.4 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category, there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 3d
Paul Laurence Dunbar, The scapegoat (#Review)
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(The cover photo of the anthology features the inimitable ZNH with her stylish hat, but there is also an image of PLD in the discussion of this #shortstory by @whisperinggums.bsky.social)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, The scapegoat (#Review)
Paul Laurence Dunbar’s short story “The scapegoat” is the fourth in the anthology Great short stories by African-American writers, which my American friend Carolyn sent me. Compar…
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 3d
Among other things, I learned about the new Hilary Mantel Prize for unpublished writers, from the weekly links that @bookjotter.bsky.social gathers for #bookish peeps.

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Winding Up the Week #440
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with literary anniversaries, focus on a past post deserving to be read an…
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 3d
Moving on, in her reading of Anita Brookner, @jacquiwine.bsky.social:

"Once again, Brookner proves herself to be ruthlessly precise and perceptive in her portrayal of human nature, complete with all the flaws and failings this condition encompasses."

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A Private View by Anita Brookner
I’ve been making my way through Anita Brookner’s exquisitely written novels slowly but steadily over the past eight years. As a long-term reading project, I’m finding it fascinating to see how Broo…
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 4d
The rest of @bookjotter.bsky.social's literary links are here:
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Winding Up the Week #439
Returning this week after a short break, I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with literary anniversaries, announce Nove…
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 4d
One of the many #bookish links in the weekly wind-up from @bookjotter.bsky.social about this favourite writer's routines: I laughed out loud at the 8pm slot in Le Guin's schedule!
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Writing Rituals of Ursula K Le Guin
A series on the What, Where and Why of Literary Women
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 4d
Three Things + #8: Summer Summation bookjotter.com/2025/09/10/t...
Among other pleasures, @bookjotter.bsky.social includes reflections on Anne Morrow Lindbergh's classic Gift from the Sea. A true single-sitting read!
– Three Things + #8: Summer Summation
This sporadic post covering all manner of things I’ve recently read, watched and done is where I hold forth on matters both serious and silly. You are invited along for the ride.
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 4d
The Question Every #Writer Dreads
In her #memoir, "A Truce That Is Not Peace," Miriam Toews confronts why we write at all
Interviewed by Rachel Lyon |
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The Question Every Writer Dreads - Electric Literature
In her memoir, "A Truce That Is Not Peace," Miriam Toews confronts why we write at all
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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · Aug 14
Review: The Longest Night (Freehand Books)
Lauren Carter “thoughtfully unpacks the emotional journey that moving through time might entail.…what [Ash] does and how it affects her and the people around her are what’s important and interesting about the novel.” @lpgcanada.bsky.social
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 8d
“The Book of Records asks each of us how we might go on with our lives when our expectations and usual way of life are swept away in the blink of an eye.”

Miho Kinnas reviews Madeleine Thien’s fourth novel.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 8d
“By choosing to examine the powers that bind us, we can empower ourselves.”

Amber M. Durst looks at 10 international new and upcoming horror novels for fall.

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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 6d
"How has Sheinbaum’s first year in power unfolded? What defines her initial administration in terms of democracy and human rights?"
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Claudia Sheinbaum's first year: 5 key points on democracy and human rights - WOLA
One year ago, Claudia Sheinbaum became Mexico's first female president. She arrived with the promise of continuing and expanding the plan of the ruling party, MORENA, known as the “Fourth Transformati...
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 19d
Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of Catherine Cooper's Lásko (pub. Freehand Books)!

...Connection proves not only desirable but essential: connection outward, yes, but inward too...
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The cover of Lásko, by Catherine Cooper. It depict an abstract outline of a woman with her face turned away and to the viewer's left; her hair and shirt indicate where she is. The colors are warm reds/browns/peaches with some cooler blues and grays
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 19d
Read @buriedinprint.bsky.social's review of ​Éric Chacour's What I Know About You (pub. @coachhousebooks.bsky.social) in Iss. 32!

What is extraordinary? Chacour’s deft balancing and bridging: between ambiguity and clarity, between understanding and revisioning

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The cover of What I Know About You, by ​Éric Chacour. It looks like a yellow-orange photo of a city that has been torn from left to right in 2 sections--one near the top and one at the bottom--to reveal a partial black-and-white photo of a person
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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Sep 10
Lee Rossi reviewed two new poetry anthologies, "At the Corner of Hope and Despair: An Anthology for the Trump Era" and "Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age," for Portside.org:
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · Sep 10
"Still, having one’s ideas confirmed too often risks complacency. Keeping that at bay requires fiction that not only evokes the need for change but demonstrates its possibility."
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Via #lithub (And I wish their share button included BlueSky!)
On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction
A curious contradiction has overtaken contemporary literary fiction. Though nearly all its authors, editors, publishers, and readers would likely describe themselves as progressive, more and more o…
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Grist @grist.org · Sep 10
First came the wildfire. Then came the scams.

As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy repairs.

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#Wildfire #Scam #Scams #Disaster #Climate #Environment #Weather #Wildfires
First came the wildfire. Then came the scams.
As extreme weather becomes more frequent, so too have post-disaster contractor scams like excessive billing and shoddy repairs.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · Sep 10
This should not be limited to English. We've reached out to people who can help with lists of Palestinian lit in Turkish, Indonesian, Malayalam, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German. If you can help with these or other languages, please message.

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List in Progress: Palestinian Literature Forthcoming Fall 2025 or 2026
Although we generally focus on literature in translation, this encompasses literature written by Palestinians in any language (and a few additional titles at the end). Please let us know if you hav…
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · Sep 8
Our new audio series is here: Personals, writers reading their first-person essays. Episode one features Ottessa Moshfegh reading from her essay on renovating a house soaked in nicotine—and her haunting encounter with its former owner.

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · Sep 9
History is supposedly written by the victors. Sima Qian, author of China's original historical classic, showed it could also be written by the condemned.

Read Jeremiah Jenne's essay on the urtext for Chinese history, the Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/09/s...
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · Sep 9
"Between 1980 and 2000, Peru experienced a brutal internal armed conflict between the Maoist Shining Path insurgency and the Peruvian State. A truth commission found that 70,000 people were killed and that 75 percent of the victims were Indigenous rural farmers."
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Peru’s Amnesty Law: Closing the circle of impunity? - WOLA
Gisela Ortiz was 19 years old in 1992 when her brother Enrique was forcibly disappeared from La Cantuta University by a military death squad, along with eight other students and a professor. I first m...
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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · Sep 9
I really like her description of "[w]eird, evasive, jellified" answers to questions: evocative and recognisable!
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Article at @thenation.com
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Rebecca Solnit on Trump, Books, and the Reincarnation of King George III
A conversation with the writer and activist about living in a nation where those who lead are often disinclined to read—let alone write—meaningful books.
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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · Sep 5
“Reviewing is all about finding affinities with a book and helping spread the web, echoes, and resonances that keep writing alive.”

Alice-Catherine Carls, a reviewer for WLT since 1979, answers 8 questions about book reviewing.

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