Mairead Small Staid

@maireadsmst

Rhymes w/ parade. Once & future bookseller (). Essays all over the place (, , , , &c.)

Minnesota
Vrijeme pridruživanja: studeni 2011.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    2. sij

    Thanks to all who read and shared my Shelf Life column, which is taking a hiatus in 2020. (For good reasons! Gotta write my own dang book!) You can read all the essays here——and the books everywhere, forever. Long live backlist.

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  2. 31. sij

    "Why is there any need to find them again... To tie together that past & this present, but also that self that I was then with this self now? Is it once again a question of saying, Yes, I do exist, and Yes, I did exist all along?"

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    28. sij

    "Gods pull rank; they’re movie executives. Carson is gesturing outward, almost offhandedly, the way an actor’s quick glance can demolish an entire imaginary wall." on cinema and Anne Carson's NORMA JEANE BAKER OF TROY ():

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    29. sij

    Wrote about Dave Hickey, one of my intellectual and writerly heroes, for - I also defend the 90s.

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  5. 28. sij

    also, damn, this new issue of ! 🔥🔥🔥

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  6. 28. sij

    Conversations with Friends was the worst book I've read in years, and this blistering Becca Rothfeld essay articulates why with such wonderfully precise shade, I'm giddy:

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  7. 26. sij

    Spectacular essay on the current reduction of art to politics (and great art's resilient irreducibility) by for :

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    25. sij
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    Maxims of W.G. Sebald (collected by David Lambert and Robert McGill)

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    24. sij

    ICYMI, I wrote about Edward L. Greenstein's heterodox translation of the book of Job for . Greenstein argues that Job doesn't recant or abase himself after God's speeches from the whirlwind; rather, he tells God, "I am fed up.”

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  11. 20. sij

    Oh, apropos of nothing, just struck by this line in Titan's introduction to Benjamin: "Stories must be promptly verifiable and readily comprehensible if they are to find a place in the assembly-line temporality of accelerating industrial societies."

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    12. pro 2019.

    "What is this subject called 'girl'? How does she come to fill the role of 'author'? And who is this 'who' under cover of the pronouns the world has imposed on her?" Read on Lisa Robertson's THE BAUDELAIRE FRACTAL ():

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    “Promiscuity—an eagerness for mixture, excitement at the new things arrived at through unexpected encounters—is one of the virtues I most admire in thinking, in art-making, in life.” I spoke about CLEANNESS with the great for .

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    17. sij

    The tightly knit second novel from stretches the reader’s imagination and capacity for empathy.

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  15. 15. sij

    This book is a stunner—vibrant and elegant and so, so moving—about the selves we run from and the selves we construct. Do your future self a favor and let your bookstore know you want it now!

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    13. sij

    In which I try (try!) to pay tribute to my mentor, the late great novelist Bharati Mukherjee. Thank you to for letting me share my gratitude: Also so happy to see re-issuing Mukherjee's novel, Jasmine, with an intro by !

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    7. sij

    Happy book bday to , a writer with an extraordinary sensitivity to love & place & history, also the #1 reason I had fun in grad school. This novel is a little universe (rainy Armenia, love triangles, wrestlers on the road, scheming guerrillas!) & it is so, so good

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  18. 7. sij

    Minnesota folks! It would be swell to see (or meet) you tonight, when talks about his brilliant book with the good folks at .

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    3. sij

    "To read a book to its core, to get under its skin and let it get under yours, is to engage with it in a mutual process of transformation and sometimes-ecstatic contortion." From The Ferrante Letters in :

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    3. sij

    I have a very quiet mind. I worked hard for that. It took a lot of discipline.--Agnes Martin

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    30. ruj 2019.

    "Your child is a person whose mind you inhabit less and less .... She is a future stranger." This, by , on the children we do not have and cannot imagine, and the paintings of Hilma af Klimt, is very beautiful.

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