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BABE ALERT: Meg Howrey’s THE CRANES DANCE
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The Fan who Knew Too Much by Anthony Heilbut is in!. Check the hot pink jacket by Carol Carson.
Excuse me, but: that subtitle!
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The Vanishers is on VERY SHORT LIST! →
Thank fucking god. JULAVITS.
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Mega-babe David Rakoff is the subject of this week’s “Grub Street Diet” feature over at New York Magazine. Utter, utter bliss.
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IF YOU THOUGHT I WAS DONE RUNNING MY MOUTH ABOUT THE VANISHERS BY HEIDI JULAVITS, YOU WERE WRONG. <END TRANSMITTAL>
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“I read Selina’s book all through again & cried all over again… it really is a very good book.”
—Diana, in a letter to Pamela
Here’s the cover for Vintage’s forthcoming edition of Selina Hasting’s biography NANCY MITFORD. The title design is adapted from a custom bookplate that Naunce used in her private collection.
SURPRISE: I recommend you put this hot number on your summer reading list. It’s just as entertaining and compelling as Naunce’s own novels—you can gobble it up in an afternoon, but it will stay with you forever.
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“No one ever admits that a mother’s greatest heartbreak is when she begins to see her child as the embodiment of her own worst self. Literally, it is as if her worst self—that shameful part she’s able, most days, to quarantine—has been loosed upon the world and refuses any longer to take orders from her.”
—Heidi Julavits, The Vanishers
JULAVITS
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“To find your hidden powers, simply read on paper. Studies show you’ll read up to 30% faster while retaining more information. You’ll fly through sentences faster than a space rocket. Impress your family and friends today! Learn more at paperbecause.com.”
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EXTREME MAKEOVER: SUBWAY EDITION
or
The New Shame
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omgpleasedon’tletthisbewhatitwaslikewithmeandJULAVITS
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For Kay Upstairs: Bernard. →
What am I? I ask. This? No, I am that. Especially now, when I have left a room, and people talking, and the stone flags ring out my solitary footsteps, over the ancient chapel—then it becomes clear that I am not one and simple, but complex and many. Bernard in public, bubbles; in private, is…
Yes yes yes yes yes
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“Don’t get your panties in such a twist… and give me back mine.”
― E L James, Fifty Shades of Grey
Here weee goooo!!!
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More.
IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT I AM STILL PISSED OFF ABOUT THIS <END TRANSMITTAL>
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This is pretty cool, guys. Two of our best writers talking to each other. No one threatens to kill anybody, which is an improvement on Mailer and Vidal.
Heidi Julavits (The Vanishers) interviews Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Good Squad). Listen here.
It seems our Tumblr dashboard is filling up with authors talking to authors, and I LOVE IT.
JULAVITS
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20 Reasons Why THE VANISHERS Might Have Been Regressively Written by a Future Heidi Julavits as a Gift to Of-Late Me
1. Goddess energies, obvo.
2. “In other words, this is not just a story about how you can become sick by knowing other people. This is a story about how other people can become sick by knowing you.”
3. Repeated use of the word “astral.”
4. “Part 1” plays out as a psychic campus novel. Imagine Bennington with spectral activity in addition to the numbing sex and booze and there you have it.
5. This phrase: “stained-glass windows unto the astral abyss.”
6. A character central to the book’s mystery is, early on, referred to exclusively as “the Leni Riefenstahl of France.” Miss you, Steven Bach.
7. “I think we both knew, before she flipped the card, that it would be the Fool, cautioning me not to take the imprudent path.” This is quite like what happened to me when a friend had me pull my card for the new year. (Previously.)
8. In an early passage, a specter of Fenrir, the mythical Norse wolf, becomes an embodiment of heartsickness and feasts upon its prey. Please see Neville being devoured by the jaws of heartsick grief in Episode 5 of The Waves.
9. Speaking of Woolf, a major male character is said to resemble her. Later still: “He really did look like shit, like Virginia Woolf after she’d been dredged from the river bottom.”
10. “Clarity, it turns out, is a death sentence,” Alwyn said. “Kincaid decided that by introducing patients to ‘reambiguation,’ i.e., by removing a person from his or her ambiguity-free, suicide-provoking context, he could offer them a viable suicide alternative.”
“How does a person reambiguate?” I asked.
“Kincaid prefers to call it vanishing,” Alwyn said.
“How does a person vanish?” I said.
“They leave and never go home,” she said. “It’s a very simple process.”
UM, BYE.
11. A psychic character is described as a brunette Cyndi Lauper, and is referred to as such for the rest of the scene. So, SheLaup in general, but also: Vibes.
12. This phrase: “a copse of spectral trees.”
13. Our heroine spends some time convalescing in semi-exile at an exclusive European spa. Shades of Mann and Brookner are tantamount to infinite bliss.
14. Meet my new mantras: “To forget is to respect the past, and the enable your pleasant future”; “…revisiting one’s memories could result, over time, in a form of self-erasure”; “The past is not the past if it is always present. Memory is an act of murder.”
15. “I knew from experience how unsettling it could be not to resemble the person once known as you.” Nose-break shellshock, guys!
16. Mention is made of the pleasing aftereffects of Grüner Veltliner. My body is basically 80% GV!
17. “It was my error not to understand: anyone can wake up one morning and decide against living. Every single day, the very healthiest among us might be seen to have a fifty-fifty chance of survival.”
18. “Concern was a bullshit way of caring for a person you couldn’t or wouldn’t love.”
19. “To be forgiven is to be released into the ether, untethered and alone.”
20. The discovery of reason and resolution in the dark interstices of female rivalry. (We can now add “Abmominations” to the ranks of Frenemies and Nemesisters.)
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