True History of the Kelly Gang & My Brilliant Friend. Two books in which the ownership of a pair of shoes/boots takes on an unexpected level of dramatic significance. #booksinconversation #ferrante #petercarey
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I posted my first #booktube video today. I'd love your feedback. I've gotten some great stuff already
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I like this series. You might enjoy a related one at #booksinconversation
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Ellen Wayland-Smith's The Science of Last Things (highly recommended) + Steward Brand's The Clock of the Long Now = taking the long view, for both solace and creativity. #booksinconversation #books #booksky
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Evan S. Connell's The Aztec Treasure House + Eliot Weinberger's Works on Paper & Karmic Traces (and many other collections) = the essay as form for absorbing history, transforming it into literature. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn + Agustin Fernandez Mallo's The Things We've Seen = the impossibilty of arrival, the art of meandering, the aftermath of war. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Anna Kavan's Ice + Denis Johnson's The Stars at Noon = women in wartime. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Maxim Biller's Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz + Pierre Michon's Rimbaud the Son = the lives of poets. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Gregor von Rezzori's The Snows of Yesteryear + Antonio di Benedett's Zama = life in the provinces. #booksinconversation #books #booksky
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Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction + Jeffrey A. Lockwood's The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects = paranoid obsession. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World (wow!) + Conrad's Heart of Darkness = going too far. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Amy Leach's Things That Are + Eliot Weinberger's An Elemental Thing + Xavier de Maistre's Voyage Around My Room = spirits in a material world. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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At #booksinconversation I've been pairing books that speak to each other in some way, which makes me doubly pleased to see this upcoming "Double Feature" event matching The Discarded with Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler. www.meetup.com/swarthmoresc... #books #booksky
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Kafka's "Investigations of a Dog" + Vilem Flusser & Louis Bec's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis = other modes of inquiry. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Rae Dalven's Cavafy + Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard's Cavafy + Daniel Mendelson's Cavafy = the art of translation. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Homer's The Iliad + John Williams' Stoner = evolving notions of war and heroism. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Ivan Vladislavic's The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories + Giorgio van Straten's In Search of Lost Books = fire, shame, family members, and other ruthless editors. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Rem Koolhaas' Conversations with students + Steward Brand's The Clock of the Long Now = the past is too small for the future to inhabit. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Soccer War + Eduardo Galeano's Soccer in Sun and Shadow = the beautiful game is never just a game. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Robert Graves' I, Claudius + Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian = 20th century takes on the Roman psyche. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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In celebration. Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler + Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat = the madness of power, the inevitability of its end. With image!
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In celebration. Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler + Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat = the madness of power, the inevitability of its end. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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A.R. Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist + Harry Houdini's The Right Way to Do Wrong + Philippe Petit's Man on Wire = cultivating virtuosity. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Fernando Pessoa's Selected Poems + Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers = multitudes, pantheons. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend + Olga Tokarczuk's Primeval and Other Times = novels that climax with simple object (a pair of shoes, a coffee grinder) laden with an almost unbearable weight. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Rachel Ingalls' Mrs Caliban + Rita Indiana's Tentacle + K=Ming Chang's Cecila = longing. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Virgil's Aeneid + Mick Herron's Slow Horses = Exiles and losers making a new home. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter + The Sisters Brothers = On the run in the West, shackled to someone not quite as fast. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
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Lichtenberg's The Waste Books and Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet: Taking Notes. #booksinconversation #books #booksky
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