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erinmaglaque.bsky.social
writer, historian, critic. mostly for the lrb and nyrb. i’m writing a history of the female body, out in 2026. https://erinmaglaque.com
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I am a very messy desk person so I loved Celia Paul on her messy flat — that allows her to “explore the drama of my life as it unfolds” In this issue of @nybooks.com

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I guess this is what counts as consolation in 2025???? (rachael allen, god complex)

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I loved @torilmoi.bsky.social on “women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around” — Hjorth is new to me (and so great) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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There are now more than fifty LRB writers on Bluesky - including @torilmoi.bsky.social, @jessiechilds.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @bekadiski.bsky.social with writing in our new issue and on the blog this week. Read and follow them here: go.bsky.app/5CZWQgk

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“Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less ‘universal’, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.” from my essay on Vigdis Hjorth’s If Only in LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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we're so lucky to have sophie lewis in sheffield in march. tickets going fast!: www.outsavvy.com/event/24981/...

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examples of fiction writers who have used oral history methods? oral histories that blend into the speculative/fictional?

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cannot wait to see this when it comes to the national gallery this spring — a great review of an important show @nybooks.com

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a snail's kiosk!

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Anne Carson. 2016. Prose poem. @etherealcolburn.bsky.social

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getting snowed-in is for quitters

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I don’t have a mind // of winter John Burnside

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this is a classic case of early modern vernacular saint-making....i mean masaniello!!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanie...

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On the solstice this Saturday, Poetry State Forest is doing a live reading marathon-fundraiser of Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day which you can watch online, starting at 1 pm. youtube.com/live/ZevDjVg...

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I always reread Bernadette Mayer’s MIDWINTER DAY this time of year, just to wallow in the homesickness & her utter genius for a few days

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Sheffield-area folk who love high quality local journalism: please subscribe to @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social! It's a great paper, and local journalism is more improtant than ever! Plus - an excellent Xmas gift! www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/get-us-over-...

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Thrilled to announce that I just received the most exciting and longest-awaited acceptance:

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I reviewed a new book about medieval women for @nytimes.com — & make a plea for a more complex & imaginative gender history. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...

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I've finished the first full draft of my book! It's drafty, but it exists. A history of the female body, personal and collective. Here's the (yes, still drafty) table of contents.

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“Something compels us to map flesh to image. The history of the body is partly a history of metaphor, of poetry. As in poetry, no metaphor is ever really superseded by another.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 🗃️ h/t @erinmaglaque.bsky.social

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An elegant essay by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Steven Shapin's Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Foods and Ourselves #histsci #Skyhistorians #foodhistory www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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my roman empire is this poem about the roman empire [by carl phillips]

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