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Book Review: Intervals, by Marianne Brooker

Intervals Marianne Brooker Fitzcarraldo, September 24, 2024 It was a weird summer for me, and I’ve heard other people had an off summer too. Not a tragic summer, but not a great one either. So I thought I’d aim to lighten things up around here, make this newsletter

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Available Now: Memoirs of a French Courtesan Vol. 2: Spectacle

We’re back to school, back to cooler weather, and back to France in the mid-nineteenth century! Memoirs of a French Courtesan Volume 2: Spectacle is now available wherever books are sold, including at the Practical Fox website. Practical FoxBookshop.orgPowell's Books “It would be easier for me

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Review: A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda

A bio for both superfans and Varda n00bs

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To Catch and Comfort

I memorized a poem for the first time maybe ever.

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Silly + Serious = Superpowers

In which the creative impulse boils down to, "I mean, why not?"

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Review: The Long Run, Stacey d'Erasmo

She's talking to us, Gen X artists

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Best Dressed: How Cinderella Got into the Ball

Balls, balls, balls. And fairy tales.

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Review: Godwin

Joseph O'Neill's latest novel is about way more than soccer

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This Was Supposed to Be a Book Review

Instead, it is a litany.

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Today Was a Good Day

As I opened my book to read for a while before going to bed, I realized I had had a very good day. I made a list in my bullet journal to remind myself what made it good; I thought it might be worth sharing and spelling out—briefly!—why

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Review: The Understory

This book from Thai author Saneh Sangsuk has nothing to do with The Overstory

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Review: Glorious Exploits

An untraditional review for an untraditional book by Ferdia Lennon

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Review: Seven Steeples

Quiet Irish times from Sara Baume for when you want to retreat from the world

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Review: I Cheerfully Refuse

Low-key literary cli-fi with a side of labor justice and hopepunk from Leif Enger

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A Newsy Newsletter

Because I'm too exhausted to be thoughtful. Typos likely ahead.

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Anyway, It Was Spring Break

Last week was my spring break from school. I did not spend it at a beach — I’ve never done that, not even when I was doing my undergrad in Florida, a state that is 97% beach, in the 1990s, a notorious time for spring break parties. I am very

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Who You Are, Where You Are

One day last week, it was brought to my attention twice that as an artist, a craftsperson, a creative person, that you can only be who you are, when you are. When a concept snags in my mind like stringy algae on a stick in a stream, I tend to

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Happy National Grammar Day!

Celebrating this important holiday that we all diligently prepared for

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Ineffectual Thorns

A close reading of Le Petit Prince

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Hold, Please...

I didn't write an essay this week

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Is AI My Competition?

A Mastodon question prompts a lot of thought, and more questions

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Hot Takes on Cold English

When winter storms bring the city to a halt, I apparently think of poetry, which I’m kind of surprised to learn about myself. In 2021, when ice encapsulated every twig and leaf of every tree and shrub and bent them to the ground, I thought of Robert Frost’s

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Rebellion: Behind the Scenes

The translation process is still in process

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2023 Reading Review

Let's start this reading review with the stat that most people use: I read 52 books this year. A tidy average of one a week. Several of those were for school; a couple of them were for a class I ended up not taking. Nearly a dozen of

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Automotive R&D for Writers

A metaphor for learning from anything you read