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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️

@joiedevivre9.bsky.social

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avid reader w/focus on womxn writers • virgo sun sagittarius moon • my library is an archive of longings • feminist #NYRBWomen25 #AContinuation25 Pacific Coast • joiedevivre9.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 2h

#NYRBWomen25 Eve Babitz starts tomorrow! Here's the page guide. 🎉🎉

Cover of I USED TO BE CHARMING by Eve Babitz (NYRB Classics).

Page guide for I USED TO BE CHARMING by Eve Babitz (NYRB Classics). #NYRBWomen25

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 2h

#NYRBWomen25 Eve Babitz starts tomorrow! Here's the page guide. 🎉🎉

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 7h

This is a lovely piece by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social. “A bookmark, however fragile, however durable, holds a paradox. It is both a pause and a continuation, both memory and forgetting.” draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

draughtjournal.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 7h

Same! 🧙

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you! I marked this to read with my morning coffee. I can’t wait to read your thoughts.

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 9h

I loved it! I went down a lot of rabbit holes.

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you!!! The cheapest copy I can find is $200.😳 I checked this morning & I can get it on interlibrary loan, but I really want my own copy. Have you read it?

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, please! 🧙 Such a great conversation!!!

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 15h

🎉🎉🎉🥳

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

I never realized that until I read that today. So cool!

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

Now reading.

Cover of BARBARA COMYNS: A SAVAGE INNOCENCE by Avril Horner (Manchester University Press)

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

🥰 Barbara Comyns is an excellent antidote to the state of our world right now!

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

🎉🎉🎉🥳

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

#NYRBWomen25 Who's ready to read some more Eve Babitz?!! Starting Thursday!

"gathers nearly 50 pieces written between 1975 and 1997, including the full text of Babitz’s wry book-length investigation into the pioneering lifestyle brand Fiorucci"

I'll post the page guide tomorrow. :)

Cover of I USED TO BE CHARMING: THE REST OF EVE BABITZ (NYRB Classics)

Photo of Eve Babitz taken by Mirandi Babitz

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous!!!! 💛

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

It's so good!

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Valarie! It’s been awhile since I listened to this one. I just added it to my queue for a re-listen. 🤗

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

Now streaming.

National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 9d

Join us on October 7 as we talk with Gwendolyn Harper translator of the late Pedro Lemebel’s “A Last Supper of Queer Apostles,” winner of the 2024 Barrios Book in Translation Prize!

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Register at tinyurl.com/2025translation

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

And finally, I re-listened to this lovely episode with @mookse.bsky.social @bibliopaul.bsky.social & @pear-jelly.bsky.social #NYRBWomen25
mookse.substack.com/p/episode-75...

Episode 75: Barbara Comyns

with Nora (@pear.jelly)

mookse.substack.com

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“Comyns is expert at depicting how much of life happens as if by accident—buying a sofa, going on a journey, having a child, entering a marriage—but is equally adept at depicting the siren call of bad choices and misfortune.” #NYRBWomen25
www.newyorker.com/books/second...

Barbara Comyns’s Inescapable Novel “The Juniper Tree”

Read in a present-day civic life that unfolds like a series of old fairy tales, Comyns’s modern retelling of the Brothers Grimm classic is gripping and prescient.

www.newyorker.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“She variously employs the conventions of a gothic novel, a (bewildering) family portrait, a bathetic melodrama, and a fairy tale gone wrong, but what seems to be most dynamic and formally significant in her novels is her use of voice.” #NYRBWomen25
lithub.com/the-literary...

The Literary Outsider: How Barbara Comyns Wrote Her Way to The Juniper Tree

The work of Barbara Comyns always felt like a secret, as if she were writing, speaking only to me. A literary outsider, Comyns had almost no formal training in writing, and didn’t publish her first…

lithub.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“Barbara Comyns is a good novelist to read when the world stops making sense. […] Bella Winter, has a life that is equal parts naturalism, soap opera, and Dickensian fable.” #NYRBWomen25
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Improbable and Impervious in Barbara Comyns’s “The Juniper Tree” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Anna E. Clark unearths the fairy-tale force of “The Juniper Tree,” a late-career novel by Barbara Comyns.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

“[Graham Greene] became her friend, mentor and critic; he had faith in her work when she was unknown and advanced her career whenever he could. Their friendship and their correspondence lasted for over forty years” #NYRBWomen25
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...

The legend and the crazy novelist

It is well known that Graham Greene encouraged aspiring writers; many of his published letters testify to his kindness and energy in promoting new talent. He discovered the Indian novelist R. K. Naray...

www.the-tls.com

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 1d

A more in-depth piece by Lucy Scholes on the forgotten genius of Barbara Comyns, originally published on Emily Books. #NYRBWomen25
midcoastseniorcollege.org/wp-content/u...

midcoastseniorcollege.org

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