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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

21 days

For @clereviewbooks , I wrote about one of the city's most crucial and misunderstood figures.

“Just the Beginning”: Cleveland Police Violence, Surveillance, and The Trial of Fred Evans —...

The question of who shot first—the cops or the Black Nationalists—remains unanswered.

www.clereviewofbooks.com

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10 months

Every sentence in this book is a punch between the eyes. I can hardly put it down long enough to take this photo

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6 months

Only a few pages in, and already I am dazzled by West's perfect balance of reverence and irreverence for her subject! With this brick around, 2024 is sure to be a fantastic reading year. #BlackLamb24

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8 months

One of the most beautiful books I've ever read

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8 months

I don't style myself as a personal essayist, so it was a true surprise to land in @nytimes Modern Love! Lament the digitization of our heartbeats here:

When Your Search History Says What You Can’t

Why was my boyfriend asking Google how to break up with someone?

www.nytimes.com

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6 months

"Your holds are ready for pickup from the library"

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9 months

Chaotic 9pm Midwestern bookstore vibes

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8 months

Bumped into this monster today and had to take him home!

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7 months

Convinced Mother to visit the bookstore rather than some dreary museum

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6 months

My first exposure to Rebecca West was as one of the witnesses in Warren Beatty's Reds, a teenage obsession of mine. I would happily watch a three-hour movie of her talking to the camera. #BlackLamb24

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11 months

I wrote about The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, a fascinating novella from @archipelagobks , for @The_Rumpus . Thanks to @_michaelbarron for editing!

The Cost of Belonging: Augusto Higa Oshiro’s The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu - The Rumpus

In this vortex of language and culture, the translator’s task is all the more essential and Jennifer Shyue’s translation from Spanish is both precise and poetic. In addition to the music of the...

therumpus.net

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Kassia Oset

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10 months

Beginning my long-delayed journey into Gore Vidal's distended American Empire. Wish me patience and fortitude.

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@KassiaOset

8 months

Limiting myself to one foreign and one domestic: on the left, a morbid odyssey through antebellum America and on the right, an audio-obsessed schlub's dérive through modern Beijing

Unburied Books

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8 months

Some unburied books are more buried than others. Our next selection is one such example. What are your favorite @nyrbclassics that not enough of us know about?

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6 months

Unsurprisingly, @DylanCuellar7 has once again won Christmas by gifting me this David Levine caricature of Ivy Compton-Burnett.

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1 year

Silvina Ocampo leaves us little breadcrumbs of poetry, knowing we are lost in the forest and likely starving. #NYRBWomen23

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6 months

Curse the knaves who publish Moby-Dick with an artificial deckle edge (so antiquarian!) and yet leave out the extracts

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1 year

Is this the most badass edition of any book ever?

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1 year

“I don’t like conventions. That a novel need have an ending, for example.” - Silvina Ocampo She also disliked sitting forwards on a bench.

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6 months

Interesting that Rebecca West writes about clothes with the same attentiveness she gives the history of empires #BlackLamb24

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@KassiaOset

1 year

Today’s stories are about the hidden violence behind female desire—desire for jewels, marriage, or a tiny waist. “Voice on the Telephone” has eerie parallels to Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means. #NYRBWomen23

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

6 months

“They are standing in the rain, and they are all different and they are all the same.” Taking notes on how West introduces her Zagreb hosts. #BlackLamb24

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1 year

For all her whimsical cruelty, I love the way Ocampo explores relationships: "Every friend, sooner or later, reveals to us some unexpected defect. Heredia was revealing my cowardice, or rather the fear I felt of appearing cowardly." #NYRBWomen23

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

1 year

Day 6 of #NYRBWomen23 offers a mysterious trio of stories about a house made of sugar, a hunchbacked watchmaker, and an embalmed dog. I can't remember the last time I so enjoyed a short story collection.

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

7 months

Came across this essay today. Something tells me Seymour Krim and Don Diego de Zama would've had a lot to commiserate about over mate and a black and white.

Unburied Books

@unburiedbooks

7 months

Your ship has finally come in! Our episode on Antonio di Benedetto's spectacularly torturous novel Zama featuring translator @estherlallen is out now. Fulfill your expectations here:

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

11 months

Thusly we conclude our Ocampo adventure! I found the later stories more opaque and therefore harder to tweet about. Looking forward to discussing this complex collection with @joiedevivre9 on @unburiedbooks soon. #NYRBWomen23

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

1 year

Delighted to be starting Silvina Ocampo's Thus Were Their Faces today. The first two stories are from her debut publication, Forgotten Journey. Both are about the terrifying ignorance of childhood. #NYRBWomen23

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

10 months

First day of grad school

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8 months

Why can't Microsoft Word just let me rock?

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@KassiaOset

8 months

I grinned for the entire hour and 18 minutes we spent recording this

Unburied Books

@unburiedbooks

8 months

Prepare for a spooky Halloween episode on James Hogg's most famous work. James Kelman shows us how the real horror comes from imperialism, not demonic possession and fratricide. Listen here:

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1 year

Playing catch-up today on Thus Were Their Faces. Is it just me or have the stories ratcheted up in intensity? #NYRBWomen23

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@KassiaOset

11 months

Gender inquiry makes a great pillow

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

1 year

I do not see predictability as a fault in fiction. It may even be a virtue. And no, it is not the same thing as cliché. Odysseus returns home. Moby Dick sinks the ship. Sunrise, sunset.

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1 year

The ouroboros of NYC advertising is deeply disturbing to me. Has anyone else noticed this trend toward the tautological?

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1 year

@unburiedbooks Ever since women's suffrage I have been waiting to cast my ballot for Eileen Chang...

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@_motherslug The movie you are seeking is The Insider.

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1 year

The title story of Thus Were Their Faces is either the most screamingly scary or transcendent thing I’ve ever read. Can’t decide. #NYRBWomen23

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Kassia Oset

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6 months

It's here! This zine, which I contributed to, takes you on a critical journey through the lyrics of Taylor Swift, and it is available for name-your-own-price download. I don't think you should wait... I think you should read it now.

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@CeliaMattison

6 months

My zine all about the complications and contradictions of Taylor Alison Swift is out TODAY. Download and share widely:

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1 year

Delving into Ocampo's "The Impostor" this morning. I adore the title. In his review, Nicholas Lezard says this story has a twist he didn't see coming. Naturally, I am looking hard for it. #NYRBWomen23

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

1 year

If I were 20% more self-indulgent, @unburiedbooks would be an Ivy Compton-Burnett podcast.

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1 year

Is this true? Like they've hardly got a mass readership but I'd assume Vanity Fair and Lucky Jim still have readers outside Literature Courses

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1 year

Not afraid to use it

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

6 months

Super excited to contribute a piece to this Taylor Swift zine about the expunged “you’re gay” lyric from the debut album!

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@CeliaMattison

6 months

happy December 13!!! cover reveal for SWIFTLY, a zine about the lyrics of Taylor Swift — for haters, lovers, & agnostics

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8 months

First @Nancy_Pearl reference in library school—hopefully not the last

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1 year

What doesn't "Autobiography of Irene" have going for it? Imagination, destiny, mysticism, roses, and a snake-eating-its-own-tail ending. #NYRBWomen23

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@KassiaOset

1 year

With the help of the NYPL Picture Collection, I am exploring representations of Muammar Gaddafi throughout his political career. 1/7

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

1 year

Day 4 of Thus Were Their Faces. There are too many indelible images to attempt to document them all. "That night, lit up by the fire, our faces seemed like masks." #NYRBWomen23

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

6 months

Before @unburiedbooks was a glimmer in my eye, I did a solo podcast where each episode centered on a different person. This is a fun, short episode about seashells and my strangest New Year's Eve:

Tyrico

He was selling seashells on Heywoods Beach. Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com. Cover art by Ana Bustelo

have-we-met-before.castos.com

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1 year

I have already had my breakfast, but now I am craving some Cruz de Malta mate, a box of alfajores, and a stroll down Corrientes. Photo by Horacio Coppola

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@KassiaOset

1 year

Ocampo knows just the right detail to drop in to make a sentence flicker. "Did I tell you that everything has disappeared from this ranch?” he went on. “Everything except for the bats, the spiders, the reptiles, you, and me.”

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11 months

Robert Caro’s word count planner 1971

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1 year

@hoaxlakes The irony of tweeting it 😅

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1 year

@ds228 @joiedevivre9 @nmbutkovich Do you have a running list somewhere of Dorian-approved Holocaust books?

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8 months

@nonsuchbook I hate it when this happens!!

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1 year

Bobby, that is no way to treat Isabel Colegate.

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Kassia Oset

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1 year

Today I learned that Ralph Chaplin, songwriter behind the union anthem “Solidarity Forever,” was sentenced to 20 years under the Espionage Act. The @SchomburgCenter is a treasure.

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9 months

Usually hate a movie tie-in cover but this approaches so-bad-it’s-good territory

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9 months

@BryceSears5 J’adore this freaky little book

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1 year

Sadly, the record ends two years before his assassination. I am eager to use other resources and trace his shifting personas: the idealist, the colonel, the bogeyman, etc. 7/7

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9 months

Me when I decide that today’s the day I’m going to start “having fun” with my writing

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@KassiaOset

1 year

Her mission statement.

Ivy Compton-Burnett 🐀

@IComptonBurnett

1 year

But families can seldom be explained, and they make better gossip without any explanation. To know all is to forgive all, and that would spoil everything.

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1 year

Of course, a world leader can never hope to escape caricature. 6/7

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8 months

@anthgarrett @MordecaiPMartin This is fabulous!! Congratulations!

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Kassia Oset

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1 year

I have started a newsletter devoted to the "Writers from the Other Europe" series. The goal is to put Roth's selections in a modern context. Read and subscribe here:

Where is "the Other Europe" now?

Philip Roth haunts a region already overrun by ghosts

theothereurope.substack.com

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

1 year

@KirkdaleBooks @IComptonBurnett @unburiedbooks Haha. There is a lot for young people in her work and not just because it is snarky and deeply queer. I hope people keep pulling her off your shelves.

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@KassiaOset

10 months

@thomasliam300 Love these moments in a book

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1 year

There are many photos of him saluting. 3/7

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1 year

@anthgarrett Her intro is endlessly quotable ✨

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9 months

@nichollsm86 @wombhousebooks Leon Edel... the goat

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@ryanhasbadtaste @unburiedbooks @DylanCuellar7 @nthjohnwilliams Honored to be mentioned in such company!

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8 months

@ds228 I hadn't either! The title got me

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9 months

@anthgarrett Charulata, which everyone is right to recommend, is also one of the best movies ever made about writing

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1 year

@anthgarrett Capital how you capital!

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1 year

@anthgarrett Honestly. It casts a spell.

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1 year

@sparrowpost Good to know! I’m excited to see where we’ll end up.

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8 months

@Nancy_Pearl @DylanCuellar7 We actually saw them give a reading from it a few weeks ago!

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8 months

@behindatticwall I stand with you in solidarity.

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1 year

@sparrowpost I am falling into the same haze! Luckily it’s a pleasant one

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8 months

@GavinWoltjer Were it not from the library, mine would be too!

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1 year

@nyrbclassics @inacawl I honestly don’t look!

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@joiedevivre9 North Sea? I'm in.

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1 year

@hoaxlakes They associate it with crime and the yakuza

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

1 year

Elizabeth Taylor vs. Nancy Mitford will turn sister against sister. I hope they are putting up barricades in Bloomsbury.

Unburied Books

@unburiedbooks

1 year

Hello, warriors. Here are your matchups for the NYRB Summer Showdown. Authors needed at least three books in the series to be considered. What's the toughest choice?

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Kassia Oset

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@joiedevivre9 I might just read this one... it sounds so good

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@anthgarrett @GeoffreyDMorri1 I love A Scots Quair 🥲

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But only one of him praying. 4/7

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The contrast between early and late photographs of him is striking. In 1971, he looks almost timid despite his military getup. By 2009, he’s staring straight into the lens, Africa brooch gleaming in the lights. 2/7

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

8 months

McNally Jackson bookmarks double as a place to write your grocery list

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@KassiaOset

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@DylanCuellar7 No Petite Maman, therefore invalid.

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@DoubleEBooks Would read

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@anthgarrett It's only a matter of time! The world is lucky to have it 🌎🥲

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1 year

@anthgarrett @nonsuchbook Thanks! I’ll work it in

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@joiedevivre9 @mookse @bibliopaul I am! I've been eyeing this one for too long

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Kassia Oset

@KassiaOset

1 year

"The Impostor" is feverish and intimate, a rare treasure. But, pace Lezard, I completely saw the ending coming. It is a classic twist of the "Borges and I" variety.