Tara Cheesman
@taracheesman.bsky.social
read.review.repeat. Words & opinions @LARB, Guernica, Words Without Borders, Crimereads, & elsewhere. 2xBTBA judge. NBCC member. Substack: https://exlibris.substack.com/
www.nybooks.com/articles/202... Jed Perl has ALOT to say about Andrea Long Chu, and very little of it is good. I’m still not entirely sure why…
Impassioned Ferocity | Jed Perl
A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
www.nybooks.com/articles/202... Jed Perl has ALOT to say about Andrea Long Chu, and very little of it is good. I’m still not entirely sure why…
I’m at the point in my year that being in the middle of the ocean with 5000 people I don’t know, don’t care about and can happily ignore sounds like a version of luxury.
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I’m at the point in my year that being in the middle of the ocean with 5000 people I don’t know, don’t care about and can happily ignore sounds like a version of luxury.
IG really is just a wealth porn site.
August 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
IG really is just a wealth porn site.
Another odd NYRB portrayal of a female figure. Unity Mitford chose Fascism because she was the least attractive Mitford? www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Tremendous Stickers | Frances Wilson
The Mitfords, a family of extremophiles, are characters that ultimately don’t translate to the screen.
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August 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Another odd NYRB portrayal of a female figure. Unity Mitford chose Fascism because she was the least attractive Mitford? www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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For this week’s cover of the magazine, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a work of art. #NewYorkerCovers
February 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
For this week’s cover of the magazine, the cartoonist Tom Gauld suggests a novel form of light therapy for the winter months: exposure to the warming rays of a work of art. #NewYorkerCovers
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Russell Hoban was born 100 years ago. Riddley Walker, his post-apocalyptic novel from 1980, is a stunning work, its dialect poetry--a book that teaches you to read it as you go along. That's just the start; see also Kleinzeit (1974), Pilgermann (1983), & Emmett Otter!
February 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Russell Hoban was born 100 years ago. Riddley Walker, his post-apocalyptic novel from 1980, is a stunning work, its dialect poetry--a book that teaches you to read it as you go along. That's just the start; see also Kleinzeit (1974), Pilgermann (1983), & Emmett Otter!
And suddenly it feels like home!
I heard my people cry and lo! I have come.
February 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
And suddenly it feels like home!
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Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, 1907
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137757
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137757
January 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait with Two Flowers in Her Raised Left Hand, 1907
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137757
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137757
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The new @rememberthispod.bsky.social season begins tonight at midnight Eastern Time! Make sure you're subscribed and set to download new episodes wherever you get your podcasts, and catch up with our 30 minute preview episode from last month: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Introducing: The Old Man Is Still Alive
Podcast Episode · You Must Remember This · S20 E221 · 25m
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January 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The new @rememberthispod.bsky.social season begins tonight at midnight Eastern Time! Make sure you're subscribed and set to download new episodes wherever you get your podcasts, and catch up with our 30 minute preview episode from last month: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Wintertime pleasures: going to an art museum and spending a few hours looking at artwork. This is from the Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me exhibit at the Art Institute.
January 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Wintertime pleasures: going to an art museum and spending a few hours looking at artwork. This is from the Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me exhibit at the Art Institute.
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@dieworkwear.bsky.social Would love to know if you've seen the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition that's about to close at the Musée d'Orsay?
January 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Would love to know if you've seen the Gustave Caillebotte exhibition that's about to close at the Musée d'Orsay?
How did I forget how wonderful Yuri Herrera is?
January 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
How did I forget how wonderful Yuri Herrera is?
Miss MacIntosh had some strong words for Phillies’ favorite Founding Father. Our reading project continues. open.substack.com/pub/missmaci... #bookhub
"Vain man, Benjamin Franklin!"
Dear Lori,
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January 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Miss MacIntosh had some strong words for Phillies’ favorite Founding Father. Our reading project continues. open.substack.com/pub/missmaci... #bookhub
Interesting pairing.
ICYMI: Dua Lipa in conversation with Olga Tokarczuk discussing DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YRx...
Dua Lipa In Conversation With Olga Tokarczuk, Author Of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
YouTube video by Service95
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January 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Interesting pairing.
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"Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective."
@taracheesman.bsky.social on Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews"
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@taracheesman.bsky.social on Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews"
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Selling the Collective: On Kevin Killian’s “Selected Amazon Reviews” — Cleveland Review of Books
Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective.
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January 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective."
@taracheesman.bsky.social on Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews"
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kevi...
@taracheesman.bsky.social on Kevin Killian's "Selected Amazon Reviews"
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I’m on an Alba de Cespedes reading binge and this review from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social of Forbidden Notebook is excellent. lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-wa...
I Was Wrong to Buy This Notebook, Very Wrong: On Alba de Céspedes’s “Forbidden Notebook” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Joy Castro reviews Alba de Céspedes’s “Forbidden Notebook,” translated by Ann Goldstein.
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January 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I’m on an Alba de Cespedes reading binge and this review from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social of Forbidden Notebook is excellent. lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-wa...
Two books I bought pre-Christmas. The Labyrinth House Murders, which I was really excited about, was disappointing. 😕 The third in a series, the mysteries have become formulaic & a bit predictable. Hoping The Black Swan will better - it’s my first Tetsuya Ayukawa mystery.
January 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Two books I bought pre-Christmas. The Labyrinth House Murders, which I was really excited about, was disappointing. 😕 The third in a series, the mysteries have become formulaic & a bit predictable. Hoping The Black Swan will better - it’s my first Tetsuya Ayukawa mystery.
This looks great.
January 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This looks great.
I think legacy media needs to start treating video games as a legitimate art form. That means publishing critical essays on specific titles and franchises, like they would on a film or book.
January 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I think legacy media needs to start treating video games as a legitimate art form. That means publishing critical essays on specific titles and franchises, like they would on a film or book.
I wrote about Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social , trying to work out why they are remarkable. www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kevi... #booksky #killian
Selling the Collective: On Kevin Killian’s “Selected Amazon Reviews” — Cleveland Review of Books
Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective.
www.clereviewofbooks.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I wrote about Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social , trying to work out why they are remarkable. www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kevi... #booksky #killian
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One of the most important books of 2025–Stephanie Anderson’s new WOMEN IN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, a collection of interviews mapping so much uncovered ground in small press literary publishing.
www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
January 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
One of the most important books of 2025–Stephanie Anderson’s new WOMEN IN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING, a collection of interviews mapping so much uncovered ground in small press literary publishing.
www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
www.unmpress.com/978082636707...
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The list is here: These are the books we’re most anticipating in 2025.
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Well, 2024 was fairly bad, and 2025 may in fact be worse. Regardless, we will be reading. Here are the books the Lit Hub staff is most excited to pick up in the (first half of the) year ahead. JANU…
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January 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The list is here: These are the books we’re most anticipating in 2025.
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As The New Yorker prepares for its 100th anniversary, we’re proud to join with Alfred A. Knopf to publish two celebratory collections curated from a century of groundbreaking fiction and poetry, coming February 4, 2025. Pre-order your copies here: nyer.cm/Rc0hPsg
January 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As The New Yorker prepares for its 100th anniversary, we’re proud to join with Alfred A. Knopf to publish two celebratory collections curated from a century of groundbreaking fiction and poetry, coming February 4, 2025. Pre-order your copies here: nyer.cm/Rc0hPsg
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A good mail day with Karla Kelsey / Winter Editions and Kathryn Davis / Graywolf Press.
November 19, 2024 at 7:42 PM
A good mail day with Karla Kelsey / Winter Editions and Kathryn Davis / Graywolf Press.