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Read it & weep: What was the last book you read that made you cry uncontrollably? 😭

"It is all the more remarkable, then, that ‘Sultana’s Dream’ was written in her fifth language by a woman who was denied a formal education." https://t.co/Ut3by9EwLx

‘Thomas Pynchon once described Barthelme’s melancholy as “specifically urban”, but it’s also the mood of a particular time and class. His protagonists fret about la vie quotidienne (they use the French).’ @KasiaBoddy on Donald Barthelme’s stories: https://t.co/B1yLjfaCvk

"If you find the right book and the storyteller, you can save yourself the airfare and live vicariously." https://t.co/qfNDKOrUlP

Thanks for all the advice. V useful indeed.

Read “A riddle in which were they heavy or were they bright” and “Fathers Named by Sons,” two poems by Rasha Abdulhadi (@rashaabdulhadi). https://t.co/U1kGk2vZS4

She does love a long hike – along roadsides, over slopes, through disturbed areas. But this is not a story about roaming or aimlessness. ‘Chuck’, a story by Diane Williams: https://t.co/55aD1uWHqW

Join @solidstatedc in DC tonight at 7 p.m. as its New Fiction Book Club discusses @anthonyfmarra's MERCURY PICTURES PRESENTS (@HogarthBooks)! It's our Spotlight Event: https://t.co/h0F9CriOFG https://t.co/SLikw8YkTa

What are your favorite webcomics? https://t.co/tzLpkGY4t2

TV's Gary Janetti has some pretty impressive accomplishments. Writer ✅ Producer ✅ Lifelong book-lover ✅✅✅ Check out his top picks here and let us know if you’ve read any! https://t.co/pMS9CxNW8y https://t.co/y5nEbKYdFk

Something unsettling is simmering beneath the surface of a woman’s delight for life in her new home by the sea. https://t.co/z9fsKzkCSS

These YA friends to lovers stories make for sweet summertime reads. https://t.co/na8J40c9tO

There’s a streak on the lake of a yellowy white you could drown in for real. Please don’t. All you believers in total immersion all you who hope yet to surface I salute you, I on a far shore but thinking of you ‘Moonrise’, a poem by Maureen N. McLane: https://t.co/h5NZ73BXMA

MFA directors and professors answer questions about the MFA experience (via @CatapultStory). https://t.co/lPfLiVJiqZ

It's been a hard few years for educators. They deserve a present. https://t.co/d2R9Bhx4Vg