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
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
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Love linked stories eg the great Amy Bloom, Elizabeth Strout. This sounds wonderful. Thank you. 200
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