Beverly Burch
@beverlyb.bsky.social
Writer. Substack: Rethinking....(Almost) Everything.
Novel: WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW, coming in May.
Four books of poetry, two non-fiction. Other things.
Novel: WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW, coming in May.
Four books of poetry, two non-fiction. Other things.
Join me and the amazing Frances Dinkelspiel at A Great Good Place for Books: 6120 La Salle AVE, Oakland on July 31st at 7pm
July 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Join me and the amazing Frances Dinkelspiel at A Great Good Place for Books: 6120 La Salle AVE, Oakland on July 31st at 7pm
I'll be reading from WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW again at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland on July 31st at 7pm. 6120 La Salle Ave. The wonderful Frances Dinkelspiel will join me for a discussion of books and writing. Come talk with us!
July 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I'll be reading from WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW again at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland on July 31st at 7pm. 6120 La Salle Ave. The wonderful Frances Dinkelspiel will join me for a discussion of books and writing. Come talk with us!
On the Recommended Reads list at BooksbyWomen:
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RECOMMENDED READS - Women Writers, Women's Books
CLOSE CALL, Elise Hart Kipness In a hard-hitting thriller from the author of Lights Out and Dangerous Play, reporter Kate Green courts danger once again when the famous subject of her next story is ki...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
On the Recommended Reads list at BooksbyWomen:
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booksbywomen.org/recommended-...
Thank you, Nina Schuyler, for your brilliant Q&A with me at Book Passage yesterday. Such a great audience!
June 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Thank you, Nina Schuyler, for your brilliant Q&A with me at Book Passage yesterday. Such a great audience!
I'll be reading and talking about books and writing with Nina Schuyler this Saturday, June 28, at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Join us!
June 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I'll be reading and talking about books and writing with Nina Schuyler this Saturday, June 28, at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Join us!
When ancestors are a problem.
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Messy Ancestors
Am I like these people?
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June 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
When ancestors are a problem.
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Launching this book on Saturday, June 28. 1pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA and talking books with the best, Nina Schuyler. If you're around, join us!
June 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Launching this book on Saturday, June 28. 1pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA and talking books with the best, Nina Schuyler. If you're around, join us!
We need to sustain and inspire ourselves through what looks like a long resistance. Latest Substack: how people do that. Sing, dance, be together.
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Eyes on the Prize
The spirit of the long haul.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We need to sustain and inspire ourselves through what looks like a long resistance. Latest Substack: how people do that. Sing, dance, be together.
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A book with a playlist. What You Don't Know comes out next week. Meanwhile here's a pre-taste. Have a listen:
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What You Don't Know
Playlist · Bburch · 10 items
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May 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A book with a playlist. What You Don't Know comes out next week. Meanwhile here's a pre-taste. Have a listen:
open.spotify.com/playlist/6el...
open.spotify.com/playlist/6el...
Are we haunted now?
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Ghost Stories
Are we haunted now?
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May 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are we haunted now?
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I've been thinking about "double consciousness" lately. My latest substack explores this in life and literature. How fragile is the white ego? Whiteness is so hard to talk about now.
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Double Consciousness
Du Bois: from the margins
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April 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I've been thinking about "double consciousness" lately. My latest substack explores this in life and literature. How fragile is the white ego? Whiteness is so hard to talk about now.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Radical change, making a 180° turn, upending your life: sometimes it's necessary. Thinking about this on Substack. burchb.substack.com/p/u-turning
U-turning
What you don’t know.
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April 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Radical change, making a 180° turn, upending your life: sometimes it's necessary. Thinking about this on Substack. burchb.substack.com/p/u-turning
Reposted by Beverly Burch
New Substack: what is a sin-eater and what does it have to do with Elizabeth Strout or this administration? Also Sigrid Nunez and the necessity of listening. burchb.substack.com/p/tell-me-a-...
Tell Me a Story
Elizabeth Strout and the Sin-eater
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April 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New Substack: what is a sin-eater and what does it have to do with Elizabeth Strout or this administration? Also Sigrid Nunez and the necessity of listening. burchb.substack.com/p/tell-me-a-...
Maybe everyone passes. burchb.substack.com/p/passing
Passing
The disappearing self.
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March 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Maybe everyone passes. burchb.substack.com/p/passing
APRIL 5! That's the date and don't be late. National protest. Hands Off. Check Indivisible.org to find what's local or even better get yourself to DC.
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March 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
APRIL 5! That's the date and don't be late. National protest. Hands Off. Check Indivisible.org to find what's local or even better get yourself to DC.
Literature, nature, politics, Richard Powers's novels and Nina Schuyler's linked stories. Art assemblage mines the connections between things. Substack does the same.
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March 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Literature, nature, politics, Richard Powers's novels and Nina Schuyler's linked stories. Art assemblage mines the connections between things. Substack does the same.
www. burch.substack.com
www. burch.substack.com
And WHEN does the soul arrive? Depends on whether you're a theologian, a poet, or Walt Disney
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Desperate Measures
Taboos, tattoos, and the soul
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March 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
And WHEN does the soul arrive? Depends on whether you're a theologian, a poet, or Walt Disney
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New Substack posted today: literary antidotes to the current evils. substack.com/home/post/p-...
March 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New Substack posted today: literary antidotes to the current evils. substack.com/home/post/p-...
It’s that sinking feeling in the gut, the thud in the heart, and the mind saying No, no.
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Moral Injury
What hurts the soul?
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February 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It’s that sinking feeling in the gut, the thud in the heart, and the mind saying No, no.
burchb.substack.com/p/moral-injury
burchb.substack.com/p/moral-injury
My last Substack takes apart coded color words for races.
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White is the Color of Fear
Color and the White Mind
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February 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My last Substack takes apart coded color words for races.
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The wilderness we are in now, women.
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Women in the Wild
Wilderness everywhere
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February 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The wilderness we are in now, women.
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Feel like we're wandering in the wilderness now? Women have often done so.
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Women in the Wild
Wilderness everywhere
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February 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Feel like we're wandering in the wilderness now? Women have often done so.
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