The Booker Prize 2023 shortlist will be announced on Thursday, September 21 🙌🏼📖

The Booker Prize 2023 | The Booker Prizes

Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s ‘triumph of emotional storytelling’, wins the Booker Prize 2023

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Saw this last week & I was thrilled Rivera Garza’s book is up for an award— it’s an inspiring & important story. 💜🙏 “When she finally finds the file and opens it, voices rise from its pages—the voices of Liliana, her parents, her friends, and the friends of her murderer. They are testimonies not to Liliana’s death but to her life.” “Liliana’s Invincible Summer” is on this year’s Longlist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. It is one of several works that mine documents from the past in order to forge new meaning.” The 2023 National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction

The New Yorker

The 2023 National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction

Several works on the list mine documents from the past in order to forge new meaning.

Watching this for a 3rd time (once every year around this time 🌬️🍁) — love this spooky & tragic tale based on *The Turn of the Screw* by Henry James (with new twists). #halloween #film

Watch The Haunting of Bly Manor | Netflix Official Site

Dead doesn't mean gone. An au pair plunges into an abyss of chilling secrets in this gothic romance from the creator of "The Haunting of Hill House."

Finishing up these essays before starting *The Rigor Of Angels* — thrilled it arrived today though! Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden (essays about poems)

My evening read 📖 (almost pub day). New Emily Wilson profile piece: “Brusqueness is often a mark of fear. You push people away when you worry that you need them too much.” And it rankles her that men whom she considers self-appointed guardians of the Western canon have questioned a woman’s fitness to do Homer justice. “Any woman who has lived with male rage at close range has a better chance of understanding the vulnerability that fuels it than your average bro. She learns firsthand how the ways in which men are damaged determine their need to wreak damage on others.”

The New Yorker

How Emily Wilson Made Homer Modern

Her vitally urgent translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey strip away the “tarnish of centuries.”

Working late tonight— Curriculum Night at my school! I’m wearing a new blue dress but the pre-autumn chill has set in—bringing a warm drink! Hope everyone has a great rest of whatever time zone they inhabit.