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Critic and associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY
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I wrote on Amy Clampittâs life and work for the new issue of
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Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/ever-inward-amy-clampitt/
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Alex Shephard
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there isnât a better Books desk in the country than the one at the Washington Post. Iâm not really sure thereâs anything else to say
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Alissa Wilkinson
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Shutting down (the stellar) books coverage at WaPo is a real telling move when your owner is literally Jeff Bezos
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John Williams
5 days ago
I'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.
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Another exciting lineup for the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series this spring at Purchase College: Kiran Desai, Yiyun Li, and Emil Ferris. Free, open to the public, and not too far from the city!
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Durst Distinguished Lectures
Durst Distinguished Lectures in the School of Humanities at Purchase College State University of New York
https://www.purchase.edu/academics/school-of-humanities/lectures/durst-distinguished-lectures/
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My January column on Christopher Ricks for
@commonweal.bsky.social
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Twice Blest
For Christopher Ricks, the critic is in the business of catching at felicities: those seeming accidents of language that end up being revelatory.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/twice-blest-domestico-ricks-christopher-gratitude-criticism
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Book Post
11 days ago
âWhat is a / poem, anyway.â New on Book Post: Anthony Domestico on the breathtaking clarity and intimacy of James Shuylerâs poetry, arising from a troubled and complex life.
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Review: Anthony Domestico on James Schuyler
Finding a still place in a disordered life
https://books.substack.com/p/review-anthony-domestico-on-james
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My January column on Christopher Ricks for
@commonweal.bsky.social
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Twice Blest
For Christopher Ricks, the critic is in the business of catching at felicities: those seeming accidents of language that end up being revelatory.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/twice-blest-domestico-ricks-christopher-gratitude-criticism
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"How sweet it felt to be out, to see the river, and his breath on the air." - Claire Keegan, "Small Things Like These"
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My piece on James Schuyler for
@bookpostusa.bsky.social
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Review: Anthony Domestico on James Schuyler
Finding a still place in a disordered life
https://books.substack.com/p/review-anthony-domestico-on-james
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New Reviewing the Contemporary Novel reading list, featuring
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New York Review Books
about 1 month ago
Coming from NYRB to the US in spring 2027.
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Kate Tuttle
about 1 month ago
Critic Rhoda Feng likes the quick wit and writerly daring of Madeline Cash's debut novel, LOST LAMBS. Her smart review is in the print edition of Sunday's
@bostonglobe.com
but it's also online now.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/06/a...
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Debut novel âLost Lambsâ has a keen eye for the grotesque, and an ear for euphemism - The Boston Globe
âLost Lambs,â Madeline Cashâs riotously assured debut novel, opens inside Our Lady of Suffering as gnats swarm through services, multiplying faster than Father Andrew can clap them dead.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/06/arts/madeline-cash-lost-lambs-review/
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"It was Sunday morning and all the bells were rocking the bright sky about, boxing its ears with their glorious hands." - Pamela Hansford Johnson, "The Unspeakable Skipton"
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"He drained his coffee, steaming as it was, at a gulp." - Pamela Hansford Johnson, "The Unspeakable Skipton"
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Sam Sacks
about 2 months ago
Moses Herzog was 47. Frank Bascombe was 38. Rabbit Angstrom was 26. In Ben Markovitsâ very good book, Tom Lanyard is 55. What happens when the male-midlife-crisis novel gets old?
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Kamran Javadizadeh
about 2 months ago
James Merrill. âNo dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Todayâs / Dusk room aglow / For the last time / With candlelight. / Faces love lit, / Gifts underfoot. / Still to be so poised, so / Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.â
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Dan Sinykin
about 2 months ago
Lovely year-end notice from
@tonydomestico.bsky.social
in
@commonweal.bsky.social
of CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. "Sinykin and Winant convincingly argue that close reading isnât just an intellectual but also a social and ethical practice"
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The Year in Books
Our critic recommends his favorite books released in 2025, including works by Joy Williams, Helen Garner, and John Haskell.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/books-domestico-williams-winant-Schuyler-garner-haskell
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Some of my favorite books of 2025, including criticism by A. S. Hamrah and the diaries of Helen Garner, for
@commonweal.bsky.social
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The Year in Books
Our critic recommends his favorite books released in 2025, including works by Joy Williams, Helen Garner, and John Haskell.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/books-domestico-williams-winant-Schuyler-garner-haskell
about 2 months ago
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Phil Christman
about 2 months ago
this is a good day to reread Renata Adler's "Irreparable Harm," about the Bush v. Gore verdict. she wasn't kidding with that title
www.angelfire.com/rant/pearly/...
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The New York Review of Books
2 months ago
âConversion narratives seem truest to me when they recognize that our lives are rarely defined by a single and decisive turn.â âan interview with
@tonydomestico.bsky.social
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âBut Not Yetâ | Anthony Domestico, Lauren Kane
âFor those people who feel that they havenât accomplished enough yetâwhich is to say, almost all of us!âAmy Clampittâs life provides an allegory of persistence rewarded.â
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/29/but-not-yet-anthony-domestico/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-12-05_Domestico-BE-3
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One Bright Book
2 months ago
Out running errands? Hiding away from it all? Our Most Anticipated Reads of 2026 episode makes for good company no matter what you're up to this season. We're joined by
@ssacks.bsky.social
to chat about the books we most look forward to next year.
onebrightbook.com/2025/12/11/e...
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Episode 41: In Conversation With Sam Sacks About Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Dorian, Rebecca, and Frances as they discuss their most anticipated books of 2026 with Sam Sacks, prominent book critic for The Wall Street Journal, âŠ
https://onebrightbook.com/2025/12/11/episode-41-in-conversation-with-sam-sacks-about-our-most-anticipated-books-of-2026/
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Sam Sacks
2 months ago
Newly published is a second posthumous collection of stories by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, like Mavis Gallant a sensitive and witty chronicler of displacement. Or as she put it, "a cuckoo forever insinuating myself into othersâ nests." My review for this weekend's WSJ.
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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Fiction: âDisinheritanceâ by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Plus Thomas McGuaneâs âA Wooded Shoreâ and Cynan Jonesâs âPulse.â
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/fiction-disinheritance-by-ruth-prawer-jhabvala-cf6db9b0?st=DACKBU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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The New York Review of Books
2 months ago
âThatâs one of the reasons we go to poetry in the first place: to indulge in language, ideas, and music, all to the point of excess.â âan interview with
@tonydomestico.bsky.social
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âBut Not Yetâ | Anthony Domestico, Lauren Kane
âFor those people who feel that they havenât accomplished enough yetâwhich is to say, almost all of us!âAmy Clampittâs life provides an allegory of persistence rewarded.â
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/29/but-not-yet-anthony-domestico/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-12-02_Domestico-BE-2
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"Creative Writing has never been my trip although I understand the fun of teaching someone something fun to do although most people simply have not got the gift and where's the point?" - James Schuyler, "Dining Out with Doug and Frank"
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I talked with Lauren Kane
@nybooks.com
about Amy Clampitt, conversion narratives, and what writers I like to teach.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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âBut Not Yetâ | Anthony Domestico, Lauren Kane
âFor those people who feel that they havenât accomplished enough yetâwhich is to say, almost all of us!âAmy Clampittâs life provides an allegory of persistence rewarded.â
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/29/but-not-yet-anthony-domestico/
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The New York Review of Books
2 months ago
âFor those people who feel that they havenât accomplished enough yetâwhich is to say almost all of us!âAmy Clampittâs life provides an allegory of persistence rewarded.â âan interview with
@tonydomestico.bsky.social
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https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/29/but-not-yet-anthony-domestico/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-11-29_Domestico-BE-1
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I wrote about Thomas Pynchon's undead for
@commonweal.bsky.social
www.commonwealmagazine.org/more-more-more
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Thomas Pynchon's ninth, and perhaps final, novel is haunted by mystery, meaning, and the undead.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/more-more-more
3 months ago
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The New York Review of Books
2 months ago
John Banville on Henry James in America
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Henry Jamesâs âDear Native Landâ | John Banville
The writerâs 1904 tour of America left him little less than horrified at what he encountered there.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/18/henry-jamess-dear-native-land-the-correction-of-taste/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-11-28_Banville-HenryJames-1
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Johanna Winant
3 months ago
I wrote an essay for
@bostonreview.bsky.social
about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-claims-of-close-reading/
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I wrote about Thomas Pynchon's undead for
@commonweal.bsky.social
www.commonwealmagazine.org/more-more-more
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More More More
Thomas Pynchon's ninth, and perhaps final, novel is haunted by mystery, meaning, and the undead.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/more-more-more
3 months ago
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My piece on the life and work of Amy Clampitt.
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"I am sorry to say that I am very far from well; and Jemima has just told me that the butcher says there is a bad sore-throat very much about. I dare say I shall catch it; and my sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's." - "Persuasion"
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"Cheever may well owe his daughter a belated apology. But admitting that doesnât do much for those of us coming to this book hoping for new insights." Anthony Giardina on Susan Cheever's latest book for
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www.commonwealmagazine.org/susan-john-c...
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Hello (Again), My Father
Susan Cheever has made a kind of cottage industry of debunking her fatherâs carefully maintained image.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/susan-john-cheever-fiction-father-giardina
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"It was now dusk, that time when all the possibilities seemed to shift a little." - Joy Williams, "Nettle"
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The New York Review of Books
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Anthony Domestico
@tonydomestico.bsky.social
on Amy Clampittâs pleasure-giving poetry
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Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/ever-inward-amy-clampitt/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025-11-20_Domestico-AmyClampitt-1
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"He laughed, but, as usual, seemed quite candid, and really to mean what he said." - "Bleak House"
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My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampittâs poetry for
@nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/ever-inward-amy-clampitt/
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My piece on the late flowering of Amy Clampittâs poetry for
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www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/ever-inward-amy-clampitt/
3 months ago
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"Daily the restless men who have no occupation in life, present the appearance of being rather busy." - "Bleak House"
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Dan Sinykin
3 months ago
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/iasl-2025-0015/html
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Howard Beck
3 months ago
Bluesky has reached Prospect-Assigned-to-G-League levels of resonance. That's when you know you've hit with the NBA hardcores.
#NBASky
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Ever Inward
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/ever-inward-amy-clampitt/
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Sam Sacks
3 months ago
Utterly delightful piece by Dan Barry about catching up with a sharply dressed William Kennedy, now a spry 97 years old, at a fundraising event in Albany! He remembers his mother's excitement when FDR won the presidential election in '36.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
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William Kennedy, Albanyâs Bard, Reads a Story With Legs
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/arts/william-kennedy-albanys-bard-reads-a-story-with-legs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.008.EGhr.gpjBLEDq9ois&smid=bs-share
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I wrote on Amy Clampittâs life and work for the new issue of
@nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/ever-inward-amy-clampitt/
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I wrote on Amy Clampittâs life and work for the new issue of
@nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Ever Inward | Anthony Domestico
A biography of the poet Amy Clampitt shows how poetry germinated throughout her life and blossomed in a late-career flourishing.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/04/ever-inward-amy-clampitt/
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"'Sir,' returns Vholes, always looking at the client as if he were making a lingering meal of him with his eyes as well as with his professional appetite." - "Bleak House"
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"Guv'ner," says Phil with exceeding gravity, "he's a leech in his dispositions, he's a screw and a wice in his actions, a snake in his twistings, and a lobster in his claws." - "Bleak House"
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Bill Coberly
3 months ago
What better way to start a Friday than by listening to Joel and I talk about Mason & Dixon?
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Episode Twenty-Eight: Mason & Dixon (November 2025)
Reading too widely and talking too seriously.
https://soundcloud.com/thebigreadcast/episode-twenty-eight-mason-dixon-november-2025
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Sam Sacks
3 months ago
It's been a James Schuyler day. The Manhattan sublime, from his Payne Whitney poems.
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