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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 12h

The rest of @bookjotter.bsky.social's literary links are here:
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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 · 12h

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 · 14h

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 · 18h

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 · 5d

“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 · 5d

“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 · 2d

"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 · 16d

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 · 16d

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 · 28d

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 · 28d

"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 · 28d

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 · 28d

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 · 29d

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 · 29d

"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 · 29d

I really like her description of "[w]eird, evasive, jellified" answers to questions: evocative and recognisable!
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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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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ming Di takes a look at how US poets have been reviewed in China recently. The results offer a window into what reviewers are seeing in US poets’ work and which poets are most popular in China. (Spoiler alert: Ocean Vuong is as popular there as he is here.)

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · 29d

“Throughout Bibhutibhushan’s tales, the common thread is his broad humanistic engagement.”

Gargi Dutta reviews Kaleidoscope of Life, Hiranmoy Lahiri’s translations of sixteen of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s short stories.

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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · 29d

A #bookreview by Parul Kapur (fellow @bookcritics.bsky.social member) of the new Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me. "In this book, we glimpse the intimate silence and public outrage that define Arundhati Roy."

And Girija Sankar on Indian Country by Shobha Rao.
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Khabar: Books: Mother Mary Comes to Me (Scribner) – a memoir by Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy and Shobha Rao: A review of Roy’s memoir focusing on her contentious relationship with her mother, and a review of Rao’s novel set in Native American territory.

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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · Sep 5

The parts about books and reading and libraries are always the best bits, aren't they? Although the parts in Dawn Powell's about the nuts and bolts of how much different articles paid were also interesting (and unusual).

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · Sep 5

Yes, COVID Vaccines Do Slow Transmission canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/09/05/y... by @deonandan.bsky.social

Yes, COVID Vaccines Do Slow Transmission

Science lost the information war about four years ago.

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Robyn Curtis 🇨🇦 @racurtis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Margaret Atwood is a national treasure

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