And Afterwards it Belongs to You: Why “The Old Man and the Sea” is a Great Environmental Novel I once got in an online argument with a well-known novelist who’d written a screed in a high circulation national magazine urging people to stop reading The Old Man and the Sea. The novelist in que…

@vol1brooklyn.bsky.social‬ published @timweedwriter.bsky.social's beautiful essay "And Afterwards it Belongs to You: Why ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is a Great Environmental Novel."

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Unknowable Cities and Elusive Stories: Helen Oyeyemi's Parasol Against the Axe - Reactor A review of Helen Oyeyemi's new novel.

"Anything I tell you about Helen Oyeyemi’s Parasol Against the Axe will be only a fragment of what it actually is."
Molly Templeton on the new #fiction (a #novel) by Helen Oyeyemi #booksky
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#bookreview pub on @reactorsff.bsky.social
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What Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Gets Right About Flannery O’Connor Those familiar with her menagerie of grotesques, her views of Southern society, her tortured faith and inner contradictions will get what his film is doing.

"What Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Gets Right About Flannery O’Connor" by Alissa Wilkinson
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But I also really loved Elvis Mitchell's interview with Ethan Hawke on The Treatment last week: always a treat!

Silver Fingers Silver Fingers by Ellie Eberlee It wasn’t meant to become a habit. I’d read the novels before. The essays, too—everyone has. I owned multiple copies of each actual book: the shelves of my bedroo...

"It wasn’t meant to become a habit. I’d read the novels before."
Thoroughly enjoyed this #essay, "Silver Fingers" by Ellie Eberlee, with Toronto and NYC vibes but, most of all, bookishness bookishness bookishness.

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