i knew that cormac mccarthy profile was going to be especially awful as soon as the author used “womenkind” - like i beg your pardon??

"How can I celebrate literary excellence at a gala that’s financially tied to the destruction of a small strip of land where most books have been burned and destroyed?"

Former Giller Prize–winner David Bergen on boycotting this year's award ceremony

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repost with 5 favourite reads of this year (no particular order):

- augustus by john williams
- lie with me by philippe besson
- blessings by chukwuebuka ibeh
- mourning a breast by xi xi
- swallowing mercury by wioletta greg

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george herbert's easter wings from a 1633 edition of the temple

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin

just finished barbara comyns's juniper tree which flips the grimm fairy tale of a similar name (mother trudy) on it's head. comyns has such a way with her hurried, off-kilter prose that makes the banal so haunting. lovely read for autumn. ★★★★¼/★★★★★