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Anthony Domestico
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Critic and associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Jun 25
I wrote about the new Thom Gunn biography for The Baffler

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Risk and Reward | Anthony Domestico
In his monumental biography of Thom Gunn, Michael Nott explores the contradictions that animated the life of the queer poet.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · 3d
Wilfrid Sheed's "Max Jamison"!
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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 10d
Tom LeClair reviews the 2nd novel in James Elkins' 5-volume 'Strange Languages' cycle, a digressive, verbally complex heir to Nabokov, Gaddis, Pynchon and Lucy Ellmann openlettersreview.com/posts/a-shor...
A Short Introduction to Annaliese by James Elkins — Open Letters Review
A review of the complex new novel by James Elkins
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · 10d
I wrote on marking time in new books by Yiyun Li and John Koethe for @commonweal.bsky.social

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Marking Time
Caring about language is really a way of caring for the world and those who are—or were—in it.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · 11d
For my September @commonweal.bsky.social column, I wrote on Yiyun Li's "Things in Nature Merely Grow" and John Koethe's "Cemeteries and Galaxies"

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Marking Time
Caring about language is really a way of caring for the world and those who are—or were—in it.
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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · 11d
"Caring about language is really a way of caring for the world and those who are—or were—in it."

@tonydomestico.bsky.social on new works by Yiyun Li and John Koethe:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/li-yiyun-Koe...
Marking Time
Caring about language is really a way of caring for the world and those who are—or were—in it.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · 12d
"How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?"

- John Cheever, "The Death of Justina"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · 24d
"Because Thanatoids relate in a different way to time, there was no compression toward the ends of sentences, so that they always ended by surprise."

- Pynchon, "Vineland"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · 29d
"We are left with a feeling of immense sympathy for the book’s subject and the people who surrounded him."

John Skoyles on Nathan Kernan's life of Schuyler.
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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · Sep 13
New books capture the friendships, torments, and genius of two “New York School” poets: James Schuyler and Dick Gallup.

John Skoyles reviews:
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Feeling to Feeling
New books capture the friendships, torments, and genius of two "New York School" poets: James Schuyler and Dick Gallup.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Sep 3
"More and more lately he'd been brooding about this great collective dream that everybody was being encouraged to stay tripping around in. Only now and then would you get an unplanned glimpse at the other side."

- Pynchon, "Inherent Vice"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Sep 2
"On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly."

- "Northanger Abbey"
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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · Sep 1
Check out the contents of NEW AMERICAN REVIEW 1 in 1967: two stone classic stories by Paley and Gass, the first appearance in print of PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, top drawer critical essays and poetry, all for $.95.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 31
For your weekend reading, my August column on two campus novels for @commonweal.bsky.social

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Genre Seductions
In his August booknotes column, Anthony Domestico writes on the seductions of the campus novel.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 31
"I lay long awake at nights, listening to the silence with my outward ears and to a crowding-in of voices with my inward ear."

- Muriel Spark, "A Far Cry from Kensington"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 31
For your weekend reading, my August column on two campus novels for @commonweal.bsky.social

www.commonwealmagazine.org/emily-adrian...
Genre Seductions
In his August booknotes column, Anthony Domestico writes on the seductions of the campus novel.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 29
My August column for @commonweal.bsky.social on a new campus novel by Emily Adrian and a reissued one by Tom Wolfe.

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Genre Seductions
In his August booknotes column, Anthony Domestico writes on the seductions of the campus novel.
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Commonweal @commonweal.bsky.social · Aug 28
"Fiction, through artifice, can arrive at truth. Artifice isn’t incidental but essential to the task."

@tonydomestico.bsky.social on @adremily.bsky.social, Tom Wolfe, and the campus novel:
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Genre Seductions
In his August booknotes column, Anthony Domestico writes on the seductions of the campus novel.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 22
Vincent Lloyd on a new life of James Baldwin for @commonweal.bsky.social

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A Certain Power
Tragically, James Baldwin’s most incisive and most beautiful writing was fueled not by love but by lovelessness.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 21
"At that time I had a number of marvellous friends, full of good and evil."

- Muriel Spark, "Loitering with Intent"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 21
"As for how it aligns with Catholic values, Burch is obviously untroubled by what troubles the consciences of many of his coreligionists."

@dominicpreziosi.bsky.social on the new ambassador to the Vatican.

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Trump's Man at the Vatican
CatholicVote relentlessly pushes the MAGA agenda. No wonder Trump made its cofounder ambassador to the Holy See.
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 17
"I gathered that they had 'gone over' in Italy, which seemed a suitable place to do it in, if one had to do it at all."

- Barbara Pym, "Excellent Women"
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · Aug 17
Middlemarch update: keeps getting better and better
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 15
"I was glad that Julian had preserved his dignity, as, indeed, I knew he would, even with the ping-pong bats in his hand."

- Barbara Pym, "Excellent Women"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 14
"It was the middle of August now, a difficult time in the church."

- Barbara Pym, "Excellent Women"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 11
"Cod seemed a suitable dish for a rejected one and I ate it humbly without any kind of sauce or relish."

- Barbara Pym, "Excellent Women"
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Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social · Aug 10
"I was sure that she did not really like me, or at best thought of me as a dim sort of person whom one neither liked nor disliked, and I did not feel that I really cared for her very much either. Still, this was no doubt an interesting basis for social intercourse and we might even become friends."
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