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This Week in Books: Anarchist Ice Cream and Other Dairies

by Dana Snitzky May 19, 2020December 9, 2022

Or, the newsletter in which I conclude that time is a flat circle.

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This Month In Books: The Book Is an Escape Tool

by Dana Snitzky November 13, 2019January 13, 2023

Sometimes telling a story is the only way to escape it.

Posted inBooks, Commentary, Science & Nature, Uncategorized

This Month In Books: ‘One Degree Is About the Uncanny’

by Dana Snitzky October 15, 2019January 20, 2023

This month’s books newsletter is suspended in a state of anticipation.

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This Month in Books: ‘I Don’t Want To Become a Giant Insect!’

by Dana Snitzky September 18, 2019January 27, 2023

This month’s books newsletter is a bodily affair.

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This Month in Books: ‘The Minor Figure Yields to the Chorus’

by Dana Snitzky August 13, 2019February 3, 2023

I’m reading this book right now called “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.” It’s a recursive story-within-a-story sort of thing, and it’s giving me nightmares.

Posted inBooks, Commentary

This Month In Books: Botanize Your Past To Save the Future

by Dana Snitzky April 16, 2019October 19, 2022

This month’s books newsletter is overflowing with regional fiction, travel writing … and retro-botany.

Posted inBooks, Commentary

This Month In Books: The Anxiety of No Influence

by Dana Snitzky March 12, 2019October 19, 2022

This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about pasts and futures, and how lineages stretch across time.

Posted inBooks, Commentary

This Month In Books: ‘This Is Really Not What I Want To Be Reading’

by Dana Snitzky February 12, 2019October 19, 2022

This month’s books newsletter is jam-packed with scammers, censors, and … other books.

Posted inBooks, Commentary

This Month In Books: ‘How Thick Was the Cane?’ and Other Questions About Things

by Dana Snitzky January 16, 2019October 19, 2022

This month’s books newsletter is all about things. As in stuff, objects. Because, as Heike Geissler says, “It’s because of all the things that are here… that you’re here in the first place.”

Ladder on library bookcase
Posted inBooks, Commentary

This Month in Books: ‘How Do We Stay the Right Distance Apart?’

by Dana Snitzky May 8, 2018October 19, 2022

At first glance, there’s a pretty stark divide in this month’s books newsletter.

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