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3 weeks ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

The Diary of Virginia Woolf is a masterwork unlike anything else written by anyone in the past five centuries: the journal kept for twenty-five years as Virginia Woolf, with intense and unrestrained literary and moral intelligence, observes herself, her work, her marriage, family, and friends, and the wider worlds of nature, literature, politics, and wa…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Book Post to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

3 weeks ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

In 1968 Betty Joe Wolff opened a small shop selling art supplies and a few books in Fairhope, Alabama, “an absolutely charming town,” as local author Fannie Flagg describes it, “that sits on a high bluff overlooking the beautiful Mobile Bay.” “I was only ten years old the first time I saw Fairhope, and for me, it was love at first sight,” Fannie Flagg writes.

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

Every national literature has its protagonists—and Chaim Grade (1910‑1982), a central figure of modern Yiddish literature, is a lesser-known character in a drama seen by few modern readers. Rooted in a deeply religious, often insular society—its earliest modern forms consisting of tales told orally by Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav in the early nineteenth cen…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Book Post to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

Now and Now and Now and Now“There is this emptiness in me,” Yiyun Li writes in her 2017 memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. “All the things in the world are not enough to drown out the voice of this emptiness that says: you are nothing.” Displacement and abuse were defining conditions of Li’s early life, but her primary problem…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Book Post to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

1 month ago | books.substack.com | Ann Kjellberg

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