So Textual @SoTextual_

A literary platform of curated book recommendations, a monthly newsletter of reference material. We are the books we've read. sotextual.com New York Joined November 2021

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So Textual @SoTextual_

3 years ago

Now on So Textual, we talk to @AimeeBender about the books that "blew her open," influenced her as a writer, and changed the way she looks at the world sotextual.com/library-card/a…

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LovingSylviaPlath @LovingSPlath

3 years ago

And for today's heat wave summer vibes, here is #SylviaPlath sunbathing in Wellesley in 1954

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So Textual @SoTextual_

3 years ago

How we want to be treated by a good book

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3 years ago

"The main requisite, I think on re-reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of censure, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever." —Virginia Woolf, 1919

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Masterful at sensuality, Marguerite Duras remains at the forefront of representing the overwhelming, transformative powers of desire. 'The Ravishing of Lol Stein' is on our Syllabus, a collection of reference materials we love and return to time and again sotextual.com/syllabus/the-r…

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So Textual @SoTextual_

3 years ago

—Marge Piercy, “Night Flight," The Moon Is Always Female

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3 years ago

“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” —Octavia E. Butler

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3 years ago

"To me, a book worth reading will challenge my perception and provide a new frame of reference, either for life or a specific circumstance or relationship." From our interview with Tiana Marie Combes sotextual.com/interviews/tia…

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3 years ago

—Richard Siken, 'Four Proofs'

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Ruben Reyes Jr. @rubenwrites

3 years ago

nothing makes me feel hotter than reading a galley in public

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3 years ago

"Bush’s production is always vast and delphic, that feeling where the details of dream slip away as you awaken." —@namebrandjosh on Kate Bush's 'The Hounds of Love' sotextual.com/editorial/kate…

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3 years ago

—Langston Hughes (1902-1967), ‘Tired,’ “New Masses,” Vol. 6, #9, February 1931

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3 years ago

Literature, where other lives are possible

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3 years ago

“I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened." From What Eve Babitz Said: sotextual.com/editorial/what…

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3 years ago

“My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.” —Anne Lamott, 'Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life'