#nyrbWomen2025
#NYRBWomen2025 On navigating LA the Eve Babitz way: “Sure, you could complain about the heat and the freeways, or you could eat this perfect sandwich and listen to the birds sing.”
October 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
June 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Out Today: A new sub-series I'm called "For Your Consideration," solo episodes covering books I think are worth reading.

We're tackling creative license on your own life in Teffi's Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me -- plus Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods.
June 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reading about 10pp at a time of Katalin Street. More than that edges me into despair, but at that small dose, I can appreciate the humanity, the futility in the face of history and fate, and keep hoping these flawed humans will be OK. #NYRBwomen2025
May 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I don't feel like it's a fair comparison! Jessica M was early in her writing career, Blackwood later, though they were both in their 40s. And it's a funny memoir about youth, versus a finely crafted novel about a family over time. I loved them both, for different reasons. #NYRBwomen2025
May 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
HEY, #NYRBwomen2025 are we starting Slesinger's The Unpossessed today, or finishing up Chang's Written on Water (which I came back to!)
March 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Sometimes when reading a book like Lies and Sorcery, I think about how with a coal stove in a small flat, the CO2 levels must have been intense. #NYRBWomen2025
February 20, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I am a bit behind. Finished the intro, over halfway through Chapter 1. I do love the plot involving a solitary woman in a gothic-inspired house haunted by memories

#NYRBWomen2025
January 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Does anyone know where I can find the list of books for #nyrbWomen2025 ? I'm sure I saw it somewhere, but now I can't seem to find it. Thanks!
December 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Looking forward to #nyrbWomen2025 #nyrb
Caroline Blackwood was the author of wit-drenched books about the wages of class, women’s inhumanity to women, bitchiness, greed, abjection, family, monsters. But motherhood as original sin was her most persistent theme.
The Mordant Observations of a Legendary Muse
Caroline Blackwood inspired paintings by Lucian Freud and poetry by Robert Lowell. Her own work has been unjustly forgotten.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:21 PM