Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
11/5: emmeline
I received the latest catalog from Persephone Books last week and had a chance to look through it this weekend. They reprint books that they love and that the original publishers have let fall out of print--and one of their picks this season is Emmeline by Judith Rossner. I read this book a long time ago, when I was in high school: my mother had read it when it was published and enjoyed it, and a few years later she recommended it to me. Some of its scenes are still vivid in my head thirty+ years later, and I'm glad that the Persephone edition will bring it to new readers.
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