Welcome @tamarawinter! Tamara is the Commissioning Editor for Stripe Press. I like to think of Stripe Press as a distribution channel for the most interesting ideas in the world. She has kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions :)

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Started reading Katabasis by R.F.Kuang for this holiday season I’ve read Babel and Yellowface from her before and really enjoy her writing Have you read this yet? Or anything from this author?

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What’s the best book you read this year?

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Read more women authors this year. It’s been enlightening.

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In this episode, Tim McKay discusses being a writer & editor, his philosophy on the craft (which he also teaches), and his book releases that include audiobook renditions he produces himself Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… More platforms available downthread

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About 15% in and starting to get sucked in. Dostoevsky is really good at writing drunk characters. Also, 19th century Russians seem very much more talkative than 21st century Russians.

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“Your Highness,” said Theuth, “this science will increase the intelligence of the people of Egypt and improve their memories. For this invention is a potion for memory and intelligence.”

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A Tale for the Time Being review I learned about the genre "metafiction" through this book. The author and her husband's names are the same as characters in the book, so I suppose they're at least based on real people. The book switches perspectives each chapter between a teenage Japanese returnee and the Japanese-American reader of her diaries, which washed up on the shore of a rural Canadian island where she was living. There's also a heavy Zen buddhism influence (the author herself is a priest), which fits into the novel nicely without feeling heavy-handed. Having spent a lot of time in both North America and Japan and done a decent bit of Zen buddhism study, the themes in this book were familiar. What I was not ready for were the brutal descriptions of schooltime bullying and wartime cruelty. Lots of touches on suicide but these were handled more lightly. Even so... Damn, this book can be dark. Not for the sensitive or easily triggered. But the darkness was provocative, forcing me to feel, to reflect, and ultimately to continue. The writing was good enough. No big complaints here. Worth the ride for me, but would hesitate to recommend it to people around me unless they're explicitly interested in Zen or mature enough to grapple with the darker themes.

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Just started The Brothers Karamazov. Claude recommended it for this year’s pre-Christmas read. It’s my first time reading Dostoyevsky. Holy shit Fyodor Pavlovich is repulsive.

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I can never be all the people I want to be I can never live all the lives I want to live and I can never master all the skills I desire. Why do I want such things? I want to live and to savor every possible kind, mood and form of physical and mental experience in my life — Sylvia Plath

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Check out my bookshelf in Farcaster's Library! 📚 Add your favorites and find people with books in common!

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