Nicholas
@NickDuring
Regular guy who works in publishing and lives in New York. Tweets will be about books, films, music, politics, sports, and things I've been up to.
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“Ireland, he saw, was not unlike his father’s household. The church was the dominant authority, and society under its petty, theocratic rule was ‘childish, repressive and sectarian.’” Sam Sacks on John McGahern’s The Pornographer (@NYRB_Imprints). harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
marriage as an open question @francescawade on writing while bound to another, vis-à-vis George Eliot and George Henry Lewes. thenation.com/article/cultur…
“A birthday cake is in the morning when there is no use in sleeping.” Happy 150th to Gertrude Stein, born 3 February 1874. As I inch closer to finishing a book on her life and legacy, a piece on why and where to begin:
Ratik Asokan on sanitation work and the caste system in India go.nybooks.com/3qMhhDq
From @francescawade, on American poet Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80), for whom participation in political life was inextricable from experiments with form and language. thebaffler.com/latest/raging-…
Lisabeth During (relation) takes on Jacqueline Rose in @thebafflermag. thebaffler.com/outbursts/2-or…
Leon Katz's interviews with Alice B. Toklas have long been the holy grail of Gertrude Stein scholarship. He hinted her commentary was explosive but never revealed all she told him - even to Janet Malcolm, who wrote about him in 2005. I went to his archive: the-tls.co.uk/articles/hidde…
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No no no, nonsense, never
In Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (2007), Janet Malcolm turned to the murky world of Gertrude Stein scholarship. The book describes Malcolm’s thwarted
“Her voice resonates across time and space, imparting wisdom and instruction, extending diatribes of infectious rage and sardonic shards of hope”: @francescawade on Diane di Prima, whose poetry combined revolutionary ideas and spiritual fervor. thebaffler.com/latest/a-livin…
Mum's book got a big review.
Clair Wills on female honor, woman’s integrity, sex, choice, and Lisabeth During’s The Chastity Plot j.mp/3ALstih
Everything You Wanted to Know About Not-Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). 1 hour left till Lisabeth During's event for The Chastity Plot starts. communitybookstore.net/during-chastit… @CommunityBkstr
Lisabeth During has written an amazing book called The Chastity Plot. Chastity isn't very cool right now, but looking back at its history is very revealing of certain aspects of culture and society. Learn more about this tonight at 7:30 ET.
It's too hot to talk about anything but chastity! 🥵Cool off with us tonight: communitybookstore.net/during-chastit…
Pretty excited for my new sibling to enter the world in a couple of weeks. Though curious how she was conceived... Reviewers/editors, hit me up for a review copy. #filialduty #alwaysapublicist @UChicagoPress
A informative, infuriating, and long essay about Israel, Palestine, settlements, and those who suffer. Find the time today or this weekend to read A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by @NathanThrall: nybooks.com/daily/2021/03/…
📣💫 The White Review's 2020 Short Story Prize shortlist, unveiled! You can access all the stories here: thewhitereview.org/prize/white-re…. Many thanks to all our entrants (over 600!), and big congratulations to all the shortlisted writers.
Tonight at @CommunityBkstr at 7pm EST, an online discussion between @francescawade and @ruth_franklin on Square Haunting: Five Female Writers in a Bloomsbury square roughly around the same time. My FMK: Eileen Power, Jane Ellen Harrison, H. D.: communitybookstore.net/book/978045149…
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