John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The first UK edition of Lore Segal’s 1985 novel Her First American, out in July from Sort Of Books. Cover art by Bill Bragg (channelling Edward Hopper?). 10468
Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Never heard of this or her - sounds fascinating! 000
Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Such a fan of Lore Segal ever since reading her incredible short story in the New Yorker, The Reverse Bug, www.newyorker.com/magazine/198...newyorker.comThe Reverse Bug 210
Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 26/04/2025A favorite of mine. And Hopper like for sure. 000
Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social · 26/04/2025There’s a great @backlisted.bsky.social on this last year. Thoroughly enjoyed both the book and the podcast 130
Sara @sjkramer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I wish I liked this half as much as everyone else seems to. It seems like just the thing for me, but it left me cold. 010
Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Love the cover! Not read her but now intrigued. 100
John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I wrote about Segal’s novel-in-stories An Absence of Cousins (aka Shakespeare’s Kitchen) here:John Self@john-self.bsky.social“It took me a decade to find the right drawer to keep my spoons in and now I’m supposed to emigrate to Concordance! I don’t know anybody in Concordance!” Me on An Absence of Cousins* by Lore Segal, “a writer with energy and brio running through everything she does”. *aka Shakespeare’s Kitchenthetimes.comAn Absence of Cousins by Lore Segal review — help! I’m off to ConnecticutTry these darkly witty tales of a Jewish émigré adrift in 1950s suburbia from an overlooked 96-year-old novelist 160
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