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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️
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There are so many great books coming out from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social!! Here are a few I'm looking forward to.
Seattle folks, the Moomin exhibit at the Nordic Museum is small but lovely!
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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️
#SundaySarton “She has not been read as she should be in the U.S., though she has become a legend as a personality, and the reason may be that she is nearly untranslatable. The language, the style itself, is French. Rilke is the only other writer who appears to lose as much in translation.” (p29)
#SundaySarton May Sarton on Colette 🧵
“I hated to finish Robert Phelps‘ compendium on Colette, Belles Saisons, last night. I felt like a bear who has finished a pot of honey and licks and licks at the edges for a last taste.” (p28)
#SundaySarton “Her genius was in finding the exact word, especially the exact word for a sensation, the texture of a flower, the feel of a peach in the hand … The art of making exquisite distinctions. Nothing is blurred or wrapped up in a cliché. It is all fresh.” (p29)
…an island where D. H. Lawrence, Katharine Mansfield, and Aldous Huxley would all live together and write in peace.” (p47) #SundaySarton
“[Stein] removed all question marks from her work because she said it was obvious when something is a question. She found them revolting. And she thought commas were servile. Readers should be free to take a breath whenever they felt like it. Her main aim was for a sentence to push onwards.”
I'm also very much looking forward to these two from @dorothyproject.bsky.social!!
#SundaySarton “I have been in Paradise all month reading Virginia Woolf’s fourth volume of letters and the biography of E. M. Forster, grazing with immense pleasure in those rich pastures. We all have our ideas of heaven. S. S. Koteliansky‘s was…
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