Selby Wynn Schwartz: After Sappho
My blind date with this book was definitely interesting but took quite a lot of work.
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My favorite reads of 2023 (not all new, all literary fiction except where noted):
Biography of X - #CatherineLacey
Traces of Enayat - #ImanMersal (nonfic)
After Sappho - #SelbyWynnSchwartz
Noopiming - #LeanneBetasamosakeSimpson
This Accident of Being Lost - #LeanneBetasamosakeSimpson
The Wall - #MarlenHaushofer
Bad Cree - #JessicaJohns (horror)
Your Love Is Not Good - #JohannaHedva
Flux by #JinwooChong
The New Animals - #PipAdam
Tomb of Sand - #GeetanjaliShree -
Found on @bookstodon, and now returned to @bookstodon with an additional: OMG THIS WAS SO GOOD recommendation
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“But Natalie has written Equivoque to tell us that we were possible in our own time”
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“A poet is someone who swim inexplicably away from the shore, only to arrive at an island of her own invention” #SelbyWynnSchwartz
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After Sappho by #SelbyWynnSchwartz is absolutely amazing, an automatic all-time favourite. Technically a novel, but consists of ‘speculative biographies’ of historical #Sapphic feminists, artists, and writers from the turn of the 20th century who fight for their rights to live and love as they please. Essentially a womens’ studies/lit class in beautiful prose. I now have a list of books to follow this up, starting with #SaidiyaHartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. #bookstodon
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Just started After Sappho by #SelbyWynnSchwartz and, oh my, this already has the feeling of a new personal favourite. #NowReading #bookstodon