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    Penelope Fitzgerald & the Exponentially Possible
    Lelia
    • Apr 19
    • 1 min

    Penelope Fitzgerald & the Exponentially Possible

    Barbara Pym wasn’t a Penelope Fitzgerald fan. In a letter to Phillip Larkin, Pym writes, “I read Penelope Fitzgerld’s The Book Shop,...
    Trying and Losing in Fitzgerald's The Bookshop
    Lelia
    • Mar 19
    • 2 min

    Trying and Losing in Fitzgerald's The Bookshop

    Penelope Fitzgerald writes such quietly brutal books. Florence Green with her naivete and kindness says toward the end of The Bookshop,...
    Uranian Freedom & Vita Sackville-West
    Lelia
    • Mar 14
    • 4 min

    Uranian Freedom & Vita Sackville-West

    Early in Vita Sackville-West's All Passion Spent, the elderly protagonist Lady Slane says, “Besides, I have considered the eyes of the...
    Bernardine Evaristo, Elaine Dundy, Patti Smith & Resilience
    Lelia
    • Feb 28
    • 4 min

    Bernardine Evaristo, Elaine Dundy, Patti Smith & Resilience

    There’s a great passage in Manifesto: On Never Giving Up where Bernardine Evaristo declares “In spite of what my father endured, he never...
    Good Behavior + Beauty Norms
    Lelia
    • Feb 2
    • 4 min

    Good Behavior + Beauty Norms

    I finished Good Behavior which I read without great relish. I mostly cringed and held my breath. Molly Keane is merciless in presenting...
    "Nightbitch" & Wildness: A Descent to Soul
    Lelia
    • Jan 24
    • 7 min

    "Nightbitch" & Wildness: A Descent to Soul

    Nightbitch has created a tangled skein of ideas in my head and I’m not sure I’ll unravel it. You know how Austin Kleon does mind maps? I...
    Eudora Welty, Peter Schjeldahl + Bill Plotkin
    Lelia
    • Jan 16
    • 3 min

    Eudora Welty, Peter Schjeldahl + Bill Plotkin

    In The Optimist’s Daughter, the dark forces in the novel are Fay and her family, people “who never know the meaning of what has happened...
    Jane Austen, Joan Didion & Self-respect
    Lelia
    • Jan 11
    • 10 min

    Jane Austen, Joan Didion & Self-respect

    Don’t you think Persuasion the best Jane Austen novel ever? It’s by far my favorite. That’s kind of a joke because most characters in...
    My Best-of Book List for 2021
    Lelia
    • Jan 2
    • 4 min

    My Best-of Book List for 2021

    I like year-end best-of lists. Reading others’ lists is a fun way to learn about things I’ve missed. And thinking about my own best-of...
    Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Lelia
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 3 min

    Anne Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Rereading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, I caved in and let myself skip Helen’s painful awakening to her husband’s true character. At first...

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