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In the 2005 movie Junebug, Madeline, a Chicago art dealer travels to her husband's home in rural North Carolina to secure the singular work of a self-taught painter. The artist is an old man who speaks in a thick drawl and weaves conversationally between biblical verse and discussions of violence and scrotums.
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NYRB has recently published a new, elegant edition of Comyns' 'The Juniper Tree'. Let's hope they publish all her work: she deserves a home forever available to us reading public, as the LoA does for its authors.
The essayist, Nathan Scott McNamara, also contributes at The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Village Voice, Vice, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and more. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island. 
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James Wood writes that, in her new novel, the Scottish novelist is both intensely political and deliciously playful.
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These novels where explore women pioneering new ground — from the social order to family dynamics
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The Irish novelist’s ‘astonishing’ novel about the sexual awakening of a teenager with an older actor lands the UK’s oldest literary award
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Conversational Reading. Scott Esposito's blog, since 2004.
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A reading list to celebrate this August (and beyond), the month of Women in Translation.
The writer of this article, Scott Esposito, is the co-author of The End of Oulipo? (Zero Books, 2013) His writing has appeared in numerous venues, including Tin House, The Washington Post, Salon, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, The Point, Music & Literature, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. He is editor in chief of The Quarterly Conversation , a senior editor to Two Lines, and a contributing editor to BOMB . In 2017 he will publish a book of creative nonfiction on film.
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August 8, 2017 4:05 PM
A reading list to celebrate this August (and beyond), the month of Women in Translation. The writer of this article, Scott Esposito, is the co-author of The End of Oulipo? (Zero Books, 2013) His writing has appeared in numerous venues, including Tin House, The Washington Post, Salon, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, The Point, Music & Literature, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. He is editor in chief of The Quarterly Conversation , a senior editor to Two Lines, and a contributing editor to BOMB . In 2017 he will publish a book of creative nonfiction on film.
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Du Maurier’s novel is a tightly plotted, sinuous and undeniably feral piece of work that puts power in the hands of women
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When I was a child, just before my father left us, he gave me a large doll. She had rather an ugly face and stiff hair you couldn't brush, but I loved her. I held her in my arms all night and rubbed her plain face with cold cream. One hand was burnt away, black and brown and horrible. Sometimes I thought my mother had
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The following is from Barbara Comyns’s novel, 'The Juniper Tree'. Bella Winter works to remove herself from her cruel mother and harsh childhood, only to later struggle as a single mother without home or job. Barbara Comyns was an English novelist and artist. Her previous works include 'Sisters by a River', 'The Vet's Daughter', and 'Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's'.
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Sandra Cisneros’ author biography forever changed how I think about myself
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Whenever African writers are on a panel together, we are asked about the continent as a whole—its literature, its future, its political woes and economic potential. Whenever African writers get together on our own, we talk about glossaries. These additions to the main text, often vetted, if not entirely decided, by publishers, are crucial to how it will be received by readers. But when African writers talk about glossaries, we don’t just exchange tips. (How long? How comprehensive? By whom?) We talk about whether to include one at all, whether to offer glosses within the text or omit all glossing entirely. To gloss, or not to gloss? That is the question.
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Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer and an associate professor of English at UC Berkeley. Her first novel, The Old Drift, will be published by Penguin Random House in 2018.
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N.K. Jemisin continues the story of the Stillness — a world constantly rocked by quakes, and the rare, gifted people who can control them — in a second volume even more engrossing than the first.
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The professor of English tells us about the joy of rereading Austen and the hidden layers of complexity that emerge from the writing when one does so. She chooses the best Jane Austen books.
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Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia. She is a leading critic of 18th century English literature and has served as president of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Modern Language Association. Her annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published in 2010 and On Rereading, a record of a year-long project of re-visiting different novels, was published in 2011.
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