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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 7h

I couldn’t just leave it in the store. It spoke to me.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 13h

My thinking too.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 14h

❤️

sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 15h

Orlando (Virginia Woolf, 1928) film dr. Sally Potter on screen for cocktail hour.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 18h

Amazing how these things happen. I enjoyed Square Haunting. High hopes for this.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 19h

Through the front door last night. One planned purchase, two impulse selections.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 1d

Go buy one on Etsy!

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 1d

Oooo! Look at this one, Kim! www.abebooks.com/first-editio...

The Skin Chairs by Barbara Comyns: Very Good Hardcover (1962) 1st Edition. | Mrs Middlebrow's Bookshop and the Rabbit Hole Tearoom

1st Edition. - Hardcover - Heinemann - 1962 - Condition: Very Good - Very Good - 1962. Heinemann. First Edition. The Author's 5th novel. Wrapper design by Gerald Cinamon. Very Good Condition book in s...

www.abebooks.com

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 1d

A new edition would be great! Or someone nice could send Kim a copy?

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, can you please republish this??!! 🙏

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 1d

One day, there will be no more Golden Age Christmas mysteries for me to discover. But today is not that day! Ordering now.

BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social · 1d

🎄 Bringing together murder, mystery and Christmas cheer, this festive crime story has been republished for the first time in over 70 years. 'Death in Ambush' is the perfect winter-y read for fans of golden age crime.

Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/death-in-ambush-a-lost-christmas-murder-mystery

Death in Ambush: A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery, against a green background with holly leaves around it.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, to go to a Gorey Soirée. If only. My inbox is making me wish I could drop everything and go to this. @transitbooks.bsky.social

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 2d

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

yalereview.org/article/l%C3...

László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

yalereview.org

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 3d

This is one of my favorite episodes.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent thread. Here's the Backlisted episode on Comyns as well: www.backlisted.fm/episodes/14-...

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 4d

"'The Stone Door' can initially seem puzzling...[but] the seemingly disjointed narrative strands coalesce to form the story of the opening of the stone door and a metaphorical journey between one world and the next."

Eliza Browning on Leonora Carrington

clereviewofbooks.com/surreal-visi...

Surreal Visions: On Leonora Carrington’s “The Stone Door” - Cleveland Review of Books

What animal is more fitting than the horse to symbolize freedom?

clereviewofbooks.com

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 5d

Enjoyed the Ravn. A lot.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 5d

Irresistible. I can’t wait to read this.

Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 5d

Truly think this volume is great, and I can’t wait for you to read it!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6d

“Painting and novels to my mind are basically wed. You can’t take them apart from each other.” Brandon Taylor discusses his new novel, “Minor Black Figures,” which follows a young painter in the years after the supposed racial reckoning of 2020.

Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art

The author discusses his latest novel, “Minor Black Figures,” and the discourse around racial subjectivity.

www.newyorker.com

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 5d

Me too. Like the subject, the author.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 5d

On my calendar…

Scribner Books @scribnerbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Catch Francesca Wade, author of GERTRUDE STEIN, on tour! Drawing on never-before-seen interviews, a richly researched, sweeping examination of one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century.

https://bit.ly/41Rspy9

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 6d

Those bookmarks are gorgeous.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 6d

The new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's modernist epic, Pilgrimage, has been on sale for a little less than three months and we've averaged a sale a day. If folks will keep supporting this project, we'll break even by Christmas.

asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 6d

Here are the next five books I’m reading. Read any of them? I’d love to hear your thoughts. Now to pick the starting point…

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 7d

If only that were true.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 7d

So much great stuff here but the two Dorothy titles are especially notable.

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