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📚 October Backlog Readathon! 📚

Thank you to @logarithmicpanda for putting this marvellous idea out into the tumblr world for all to enjoy ^_^

I have on my list for October:

- The Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges (Pocket Penguins edition published 2005)

- Chess by Stefan Zweig (1942)

- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (1911)

- Martha and Hanwell by Zadie Smith (2005)

The books that will cross-over with the Horrortober Reading Challenge are:

- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)

- Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton (1902)

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oeuvre: zadie smith

this fall, i begin an odyssey to re-familiarize myself with my favorite authors, to be introduced to those i have longed to read and study their works and to acknowledge authors who are recommended to me. i have decided to devote time to researching the lives of the selected authors, reading their oeuvres and in the future posting a personal analysis/opinion on their works at digital book club. this week begins a look into zadie smith as she debuts her newest novel in VII years, a tragic-comedy, nw  on september IV, MMXII.

  zadie’s latest inspiration: virgina woolf "kept her going." “i was just trying to find a way to be adventurous and do something new in the writing while still holding on to the things that I can do well… so [virginia woolf is] just a good example of a forward-thinking and yet consistently humane writer, and just a great female modernist. An old inspiration returned to me at the right moment.”-book expo america interview

    further reading:

books: zadie smith

this week in fiction: zadie smith

zadie's nw muse:  virgina woolf 

watch:

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zadie smith photograph by craig barritt/getty images

zadie smith 

I: tanekeya word

creative + art director

& literature and culture editor

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what authors are you obsessed with and why?

please contact tanekeya@neonVmag.com with the subject: “author recommendation” to refer an author for the "oeuvre" series or leave the author's name in the comment section. thank you!  

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