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If this had been a nonfiction research essay arguing for Emilia Bassano's authorship of select Shakespeare works, it would have slayed. The fictional part was distractingly unconvincing: significantly anachronistic turns of phrase, character dialogue that reads like excerpts from a JSTOR article, & a series of straw men who take extreme positions to ensure that our heroines are always in the right.
If this had been a nonfiction research essay arguing for Emilia Bassano's authorship of select Shakespeare works, it would have slayed. The fictional part was distractingly unconvincing: significantly anachronistic turns of phrase, character dialogue that reads like excerpts from a JSTOR article, & a series of straw men who take extreme positions to ensure that our heroines are always in the right.
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propulsive pacing, concise detail, commentary that lingers in the mind after the last page, & more compelling story & character than any fictional heist story I've ever encountered!
propulsive pacing, concise detail, commentary that lingers in the mind after the last page, & more compelling story & character than any fictional heist story I've ever encountered!
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leave it to Delaney to write a book that makes me so insane that I HAVE to talk about it, but so multiplex that I cannot articulate it to anyone
leave it to Delaney to write a book that makes me so insane that I HAVE to talk about it, but so multiplex that I cannot articulate it to anyone
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Flattery has a gift for encapsulating the honest hypocrisy of delusional youth (we've all been there!!!)
Flattery has a gift for encapsulating the honest hypocrisy of delusional youth (we've all been there!!!)
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reflective
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as boys grow up, they might start to develop funny feelings, like a dread of time, and the awareness that one day they are going to die
as boys grow up, they might start to develop funny feelings, like a dread of time, and the awareness that one day they are going to die
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Baffled to learn that almost nobody else considers this a gay coming-of-age story... what ELSE do you call a weird, poetic novel about two boys on the cusp of adolescence who are obsessed with each other to the exclusion of all else
Baffled to learn that almost nobody else considers this a gay coming-of-age story... what ELSE do you call a weird, poetic novel about two boys on the cusp of adolescence who are obsessed with each other to the exclusion of all else
hopeful
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Every policy Billie Jean fought for (Title IX, equal pay, trans rights, abortion/birth control access, racial equality, gay liberation, among others) is young enough to be conceived within living memory, old enough to be taken for granted, and radical enough to be threatened again today. Will be thinking about this book for a long time.
Every policy Billie Jean fought for (Title IX, equal pay, trans rights, abortion/birth control access, racial equality, gay liberation, among others) is young enough to be conceived within living memory, old enough to be taken for granted, and radical enough to be threatened again today. Will be thinking about this book for a long time.
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not the bury your gays trope smh🙄
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from Clifford Leech's lecture "Power and Suffering" at Bryn Mawr College, 1958:
not the bury your gays trope smh🙄
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from Clifford Leech's lecture "Power and Suffering" at Bryn Mawr College, 1958:
"And for Edward, Marlowe does not ask our liking: he is foolish, he is at his best pathetic [...], he is cruel to his wife [...], he knows himself so little that he thinks he erred only in too much clemency. There is barely a redeeming moment in the long presentation of his conduct. Yet what Marlowe has done is to make us deeply conscious of a humanity that we share with this man who happened to be also a king."