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Six underrated new releases you need to know about
Underrated ≠ underwhelming
Sep 25
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A tiny desk tour of my journaling and annotation tools
Featuring nostalgic catnip for 90s kids
Sep 18
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State fair foods & book pairings
If you're into this food, read that book
Sep 11
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If You're Seeing This, It's Meant For You
A literary TikTok novel by Leigh Stein 👁️🐇
Sep 4
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Bodiless dresses and a parable of survival
The end of Lila and Lenù as we know them, plus Ferrante's debut novel. It's the final edition of My Brilliant Ferrante.
Aug 28
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Stolen innocence, lost daughters, and a most unnatural mother
My Brilliant Ferrante Week 3, featuring My Brilliant Friend and Elena Ferrante's 2006 standalone novel, The Lost Daughter
Aug 21
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The Lying Life of Adults + Week 2 of My Brilliant Friend
In which we meet the Solara brothers, plus Giovanna with the face of her ugly aunt, Vittoria
Aug 14
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My Brilliant Ferrante: Week 1 of My Brilliant Friend + The Days of Abandonment
In which we meet Lila & Lenú, plus the spiraling, disintegrating Olga
Aug 7
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Most of the long-term benefits of reading arise not from facts you insert into your brain, but from the ways in which reading changes you
Oliver Burkeman's Meditations for Mortals
Jul 31
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A meandering reading month, a spiraling writing month
Meander, Spiral, Explode, Sorrow & Bliss, and losing my way with my own novel
Jul 24
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Wait, I'm the same age as my favorite middle-aged protagonists?
The just-under-40 struggle extends to literature
Jul 17
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