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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tomorrow is release day for @dorothyproject.bsky.social and both books are currently 25% off at nyrb.com!! I’m so excited to read these!

BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen

At a conference somewhere in Europe, Maja meets the Author. Haunted by a recent tragedy, she leaves with him unexpectedly to his home on the Italian coast, where she wanders into the rhythms of his life, observing the world through the lens of his days. Yet everywhere over their new and tender intimacy hangs the knowledge that soon she will have to return home to Copenhagen, site of her devastating loss. With echoes of Virginia Woolf and Ann Quin, Denise Rose Hansen paints with spare, deft lyricism the complicated landscape of grief and yearning that Maja crosses over on her journey toward something new.

WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (Translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers)

Shifting between the intimate present and the archival past, New York City and the remote mountains of Negueira de Muñiz, Galician writer Brais Lamela’s award-winning debut novel follows a young scholar’s journey into the forgotten history of the Franco regime, uncovering both the past and the still-present afterlife of a forced resettlement project in the Galician countryside of the 1960s.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Riverwork is one of my favorite books of the year. And good to see you back here, friend!

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Starting May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry from @transitbooks.bsky.social. Presumably with many, many other people if my social media timelines mean anything.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Hang on to your hope.” E. B. White in 1973.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you see this, recommend a short book. The Governesses by Anne Serre, translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson.

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This book is wilder than I remembered from my first reading 15 years ago. Listen to us marvel at Vivian Gornick’s unruly brilliance.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now reading Anita Brookner: Art & Life by Hermione Lee.

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Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tomorrow! It's time to talk about mothers, daughters, memoirs, and probably a lot more.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Making a few notes. The @onebrightbook.bsky.social crew is back together tomorrow morning to discuss Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick.

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The book is conversational and inclusive but, crucially, the material isn’t diluted; this is hard stuff, it admits, but let’s have a crack at it together."

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Really?! I didn’t know that. But it’s good news.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Blowing me away. I didn’t think I could love a book more than A Brief History of Seven Killings.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

(laughing) A whole week in front of you!

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Your default position with me should perhaps always be suspicious. But here we are with me ready to go. 😊

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Already done and ready for next weekend, friend! 😜

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There are quite a few things I need to be reading today. And only one thing I’ll actually be reading.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/09/2026

‘In Hermione Lee’s biography we enter the life and work of a woman who was “dandyish, witty, controlled”, and who often sought in the shade what other writers may seek in the sunny uplands of a social group.’ Andrew O’Hagan on Anita Brookner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English fine embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph of thd upper half of a sitting white woman and three more images of her embroidery depicting flowering plants

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17/09/2026

A poor, infirm, weak, and despis’d old man

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“It is in domestic detail that she best expresses her genius. In this way, she’s a cousin of Elizabeth Bowen, Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Taylor, female writers who observe things that male writers almost never do . . .”

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Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The start of school is such a crazy, stressful time. Relaxing with a mystery. In my pajamas. Feels like such a gift. I will get to all the other tasks later. Haven’t even had time to get to my #spinsterseptember books yet.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think you should ask an expert like @joiedevivre9.bsky.social. I was only passing through for a few days. Although I really enjoyed Chihuly Garden and Glass.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On my way home. But I made one last stop.

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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Troubles is extraordinary. Farrell’s next two books, The Siege of Krishnapur and Singapore Grip, are also wonderful. I’ve read them all at least three times.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Seattle skyline truly spectacular tonight.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ordering now from Blackwell’s because I can’t wait for the US edition. Which I will probably also buy. Even though I still think she’s a little personally forbidding, even scary. Scary genius.

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here are eight excellent books to consider for #SpinsterSeptember, hosted by @pear-jelly.bsky.social. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/s...

1) Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated by Saskia Vogel
2) The Sweet Dove Died by Barbara Pym
3) Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
4) The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
5) Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
6) Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban
7) Fair Play by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
8) There's No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes, translated by Ann Goldstein

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Is this happening again this year? I mean, any of us can choose to read spinster any time but it is fun to read together.

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Big day in NYRB HQ, Diane Williams's new collection, I Liked Rex, is out. If you haven't read her work: it is made up of tiny, coruscating tales which are among the most tender, funny, peculiar, and searching works in all of contemporary literature.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Starting We Were Forbidden by Jacqueline Harpman, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz from @transitbooks.bsky.social. Second reading. I’ve been wondering about a few things…

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You have to read it! I can’t just tell you.

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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For every teacher out there, overwhelmed or exhausted by the start of school, lots of people see you and appreciate all that you do. Happy Weekend Eve!

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