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Beverly Burch
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Writer. Substack: Rethinking....(Almost) Everything. Novel: WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW, coming in May. Four books of poetry, two non-fiction. Other things.
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Join me and the amazing Frances Dinkelspiel at A Great Good Place for Books: 6120 La Salle AVE, Oakland on July 31st at 7pm
I'll be reading from WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW again at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland on July 31st at 7pm. 6120 La Salle Ave. The wonderful Frances Dinkelspiel will join me for a discussion of books and writing. Come talk with us!
Thank you, Nina Schuyler, for your brilliant Q&A with me at Book Passage yesterday. Such a great audience!
I'll be reading and talking about books and writing with Nina Schuyler this Saturday, June 28, at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Join us!
Launching this book on Saturday, June 28. 1pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA and talking books with the best, Nina Schuyler. If you're around, join us!
We need to sustain and inspire ourselves through what looks like a long resistance. Latest Substack: how people do that. Sing, dance, be together.
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Eyes on the Prize
The spirit of the long haul.
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A book with a playlist. What You Don't Know comes out next week. Meanwhile here's a pre-taste. Have a listen:
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What You Don't Know
Playlist · Bburch · 10 items
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I've been thinking about "double consciousness" lately. My latest substack explores this in life and literature. How fragile is the white ego? Whiteness is so hard to talk about now.

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Double Consciousness
Du Bois: from the margins
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Thank goodness. And keep going!! Bring him home.
Radical change, making a 180° turn, upending your life: sometimes it's necessary. Thinking about this on Substack. burchb.substack.com/p/u-turning
U-turning
What you don’t know.
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New Substack: what is a sin-eater and what does it have to do with Elizabeth Strout or this administration? Also Sigrid Nunez and the necessity of listening. burchb.substack.com/p/tell-me-a-...
Tell Me a Story
Elizabeth Strout and the Sin-eater
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APRIL 5! That's the date and don't be late. National protest. Hands Off. Check Indivisible.org to find what's local or even better get yourself to DC.
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Literature, nature, politics, Richard Powers's novels and Nina Schuyler's linked stories. Art assemblage mines the connections between things. Substack does the same.
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And WHEN does the soul arrive? Depends on whether you're a theologian, a poet, or Walt Disney

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Desperate Measures
Taboos, tattoos, and the soul
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New Substack posted today: literary antidotes to the current evils. substack.com/home/post/p-...
It’s that sinking feeling in the gut, the thud in the heart, and the mind saying No, no.
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Moral Injury
What hurts the soul?
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