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Rebecca Hussey

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Our episode on Dorothy West's The Wedding is out! Listen to us grapple with a rich, fascinating novel, discuss our summer plans, and describe our contest, which you should enter ASAP.

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Episode 26 is live! We hope you enjoy our spirited discussion of Dorothy West’s The Wedding.

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

Buying books like I'm immortal.

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“Reading the same books as someone else is a way of being together.” #KateBriggs24

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We need more women hosting bookish podcasts. Listening to all the guys is great, but the field feels unbalanced. (I’m happy to get recommendations of book podcasts hosted by women if you have them!)

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This book is so brilliant.

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It’s my birthday and I’d love it if you’d celebrate with me by telling me a good book you’re reading now or one you’ve read recently.

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Rebecca Hussey

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7 years

At the @ChrisMurphyCT town hall. Lots can't get in--too full. @IndivisibleTeam @IndivisibleConn @ActTogetherCT @moveon #resistancerecess

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I’ve been reading this for over a year and now it’s done 😢

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Rebecca Hussey

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6 months

Well, would you look at that! I guess I'm a real critic now.

National Book Critics Circle

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6 months

Board election results are in! Congratulations to @TobiasCarroll , @poetmorgan , @gwinnma , @Ofbooksandbikes , @chrisirmscher , @jonathanjleal , Heather Scott Partington, @rishi_reddi , & @gracet09 .

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Rebecca Hussey

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7 months

Literary criticism that makes me feel inspired and hopeful.

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1 year

Edith Wharton’s home. You can book a private tour of her library!!!!

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

In a Thomas Bernhard mood.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

I wrote about some 2022 books in translation I’m looking forward to:

24 Must-Read 2022 Books in Translation | Book Riot

Don't miss these 2022 books in translation including books from 18 different countries, published by 17 different presses.

bookriot.com

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Thanks for your kind thoughts and words, everyone. My mom passed away peacefully last night. I was able to see her one more time while she was sleeping, and I was lucky to spend Labor Day weekend with her as well. I appreciate your support 💙

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

My Harvard Bookstore sale books came in!

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Today’s book purchases.

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3 years

My new favorite subgenre is translators writing brilliantly about translation.

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Spent some time with Virginia Woolf at the New York Public Library.

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2 years

Two visits worth of Shakespeare and Company books.

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Rebecca Hussey

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4 months

What the hell, May Sinclair! This book wrecks me on every page. #NYRBWomen24

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Here’s my book stack from today’s trip, with books from McNally Jackson, the Strand, and Union Square B&N. It was a trip for @Charioteer15 ’s students, plus my 9yo attended, so we couldn’t visit every store we wanted to, but it was great nonetheless.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Made it!

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It is mine.

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

I'm so excited to on the @bookcritics Barrios Book in Translation Prize longlist committee!

National Book Critics Circle

@bookcritics

1 year

The NBCC is pleased to announce the 2023 Barrios Book in Translation Prize longlist committee members, who will be joining Barrios VP @recycledgiraffe and board members @adalva and @Jo_Livingstone in deliberations.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

I recently quit two books I wasn’t loving, which is new to me. Please clap.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

I wrote about books coming out in 2022 that I'm looking forward to:

2022 New Releases

I thought I might list some of the 2022 books I’m most interested in, in case you find them interesting too. I did a round-up at Book Riot on books in translation coming out in 2022, and some of...

readingindie.substack.com

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Rebecca Hussey

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7 months

All you bookish weirdos, with your book groups and podcasts and reading plans and book criticism in your DMs and gorgeous photos of books you bought but will probably never read ❤️❤️❤️

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Rebecca Hussey

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6 months

#KateBriggs24 About to turn 50 and feeling very attacked by Barthes: “the middle of my life is nothing other than the moment when one realizes that death is real.” “I have no time left to try out several different lives: I have to choose my last life, my new life.”

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Rebecca Hussey

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6 months

My books from the LRB bookshop. I bought them in part for the titles alone. Look at that Kate Briggs 😍

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Rebecca Hussey

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The @bookcritics Barrios Book in Translation Prize longlist!

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Drifts.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Feeling bad, gonna buy some books. Feeling good, gonna buy some books! You see the problem here...

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

We visited New Bedford, MA, today.

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11 months

Hell. Yes.

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

Really feeling the unfairness of not being able to read all the books I want to before I die.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

How is it I've read thousands of books and feel like I haven't read anything?

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Rebecca Hussey

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8 months

Thinking about this book again, for reasons, but also, as usual ❤️❤️❤️

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2 years

Today’s book mail.

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Rebecca Hussey

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6 months

29 Fitzroy Square.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

I wrote about my favorite books of 2022 (with a caveat that, yes, the year isn't over, but the time for me to get this out is now):

2022 in Reading

A round-up of my favorite books of the year

readingindie.substack.com

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

I saw the Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit at MOMA and got some new books — a good day.

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Cliffs of Moher. A beautiful morning with a WILD sea (currently a rainy and miserable afternoon, but we are indoors).

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2 years

Perfect beach reading, yes?

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Should I get that new Kafka book everyone is so wild about?

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

I’m going to spend some time with this book I bought at the Strand 12 years ago.

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Rebecca Hussey

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7 months

People! Here is the nerdy project I've been working on! @joiedevivre9 and I will be doing a group reading and study of Kate Briggs's writings and translations, and all are welcome to join. Read all the books with us, or read some, whatever works for you.

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️

@joiedevivre9

7 months

I’m excited to announce that @Ofbooksandbikes & I are collaborating on a special slow read project of Kate Briggs & Roland Barthes next year. All are welcome to join, the more the merrier. More details to come soon! #KateBriggs24

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

A thread in which I log the books I read in 2022.

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Rebecca Hussey

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9 months

My local Barnes and Noble — not my usual store but I wanted to check it out — has an inexplicably large number of NYRB classics.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Look at these beauties that arrived today.

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2 years

So many wtf moments in this book.

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2 years

Three more Annie Ernaux books entered the house today!

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Rebecca Hussey

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4 years

Anyone have 2021 translations they are particularly looking forward to? Asking for a round-up I’m doing.

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2 years

Today’s plan: go to Manhattan and visit some bookstores.

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 months

Just finished and 🔥

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell. “But art just isn’t worth that much”

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3 years

Books in the mail!

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Current reading THE HEARING TRUMPET by Leonora Carrington along with @joiedevivre9 and others for #NYRBWomen23 . What a strange, wonderful book!

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 months

My term as an NBCC board member started yesterday, and now I'm gearing up to read and discuss 2024 criticism and autobiography, as well as works in translation. Can't wait.

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Time for THREE STEPS ON THE LADDER OF WRITING.

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

I wrote about some of the best books I read in 2021:

My 2021 Year in Reading

I loved so many of the books I read this year. I’ve compiled some of my favorites below in an attempt to sum up my year and bring my favorites together. The list could easily have been longer! These...

readingindie.substack.com

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Rebecca Hussey

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8 years

@Rmagee567Rick @bananafitz if you get to the end of the tweet, you can join the revolt.

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Rebecca Hussey

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7 months

This gorgeous book arrived today.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Should I finally read this book I bought used back in 2011?

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

It's February, it's snowing, I'm working from home, I'm bored, all of which means I'm in danger of buying books I don't need.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

#bookmail

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

Thank you thank you to the translators who bring so much delight to readers — and who, after all, write every word we read — and also to the presses who publish translations! Life is better because of you. #InternationalTranslationDay

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

#bookmail

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Turns out this book really was written for me and it’s going to take me forever to read because I want to live in it. Currently on page 70, what will the next 400 bring?

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1 year

If the presence of a passage like this in a novel makes you happy (as it does me), you will love THE LONG FORM.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Love it when filial duty (my dad needs an outing) means a trip to the bookstore.

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

It took me longer than I thought, but it’s finally time to read some Kafka.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

At the Gap of Dunloe (pictures don’t do it justice).

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3 years

Some books were purchased.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Book mail!

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Today I learned I lost a friend to leukemia. She would have turned 41 today and has an 11yo 💔

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1 year

Weekend reading.

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3 months

Book mail

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 months

I'm extremely proud and delighted to be in the inaugural issue of @atmosphericlit writing about Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno. Thank you so much @anthgarrett and @joelyfitch for all the work you did on this issue!

rebecca hussey — atmospheric quarterly

www.atmosphericquarterly.com

atmospheric quarterly

@atmosphericlit

3 months

You might have heard of a little magazine called atmospheric quarterly.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Some Dingle views.

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

Okay, who’s read this? TRANSLATION AS TRANSHUMANCE by Mireille Gansel, translated by Ros Schwartz.

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2 years

Current location (beautiful middle of nowhere with no cell service except in the pub it takes 15 minutes to get to on extremely narrow, twisty roads).

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

BANNER mail day. From @DorothyProject

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2 years

I need to read Thomas Bernhard don’t I.

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2 years

I’m returning to Wharton soon but first I thought I’d read this.

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5 months

My copy arrived!

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf!

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

What a weekend. I'm missing my mom on her birthday today and then there's Mother's Day tomorrow, both happy and sad. Currently I'm working on final grades and crying. It's kind of a lot, you know?

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Also new in the house: Kafka’s Diaries and Tomb of Sand.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Finished a book tonight, will start a new one tomorrow but I’m not sure which one: an enjoyable in-between state with so many possibilities open to me.

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Rebecca Hussey

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10 months

A year ago tonight was my mother’s last night, and I was on the road to see her one last time. Today, by coincidence, I started reading WOUND by Oksana Vasyakina (tr. Elina Alter) and 💔

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Up next for #NYRBWomen23 : A VIEW OF THE HARBOR by Elizabeth Taylor, except I’m going to read the Virago edition I’ve owned, unread, since 2010. I LOVE that I’m finally picking up some books I’ve owned for years.

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Rebecca Hussey

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1 year

Okay, Ursula, you’ve made me cry twice now, how many times is it gonna be??

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3 years

And an order arrived.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

After 17 years of living in Connecticut, we finally made it to the Mark Twain House.

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

Barthes on jealousy. #LoversDiscourse21

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Bought a few books today.

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

For my first Women in Translation Month book, I’ll be picking up AN INVENTORY OF LOSSES by Judith Schalansky, translated by Jackie Smith, from @NewDirections . #WITMonth

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Rebecca Hussey

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3 years

Very intriguing book mail! WOMAN RUNNING IN THE MOUNTAINS by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt, from @nyrbclassics , out in January.

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Rebecca Hussey

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2 years

Felt in the mood to reread something (my form of comfort reading, and this is a time I need it for sure) and then thought it would be good to reread TERRITORY OF LIGHT.

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Rebecca Hussey

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10 months

I was delighted to get to review Marie Darrieussecq's new book SLEEPLESS, translated by Penny Hueston, for Words Without Borders. Thanks to @adalva for the opportunity! @wwborders @SemiotextePress @FitzcarraldoEds