Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I sat down for a loose chat with the lovely @nathansnook ! In this excerpt, we talk about some recent acquisitions, curating a life, truth & the works of Clarice Lispector. Bonus: I am self-conscious about my hat hair & exert very big bossy only child energy

People mentioned:
@ren.ee_m
@MatthewSciarappa
@TheBarandtheBookcase
@batumanslittleidiot
@jameskatie
@alsopato

Books:
Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene (2021)
I Remember by Joe Brainard (1970)
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles (2009)
Lote by Shola von Reinhold (2020)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga (2022)
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh (2014)
What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver (1981)
Adolescence Leaves by Nathan Truong (2022)
Sula by Toni Morrison (1973)
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (2022)

Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idea Novey) (1964)
A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1978)
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (trans. Giovanni Pontiero / trans. Benjamin Moser)
An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1969)
The Complete Short Stories by Clarice Lispector (trans. Katrina Dodson) (2011)
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser (2009)