Mia Levitin
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A friend of mine got a winner on a dating app the other day: "you've spelled your name wrong" (she hadn't, of course)
#MansplainingIn5Words
I see
#MansplainingIn5Words
is trending, and all I have to say is that it is never just five words.
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Sex is great but have you ever held your first book in your hands? 🙌🏻 Just kidding — nothing’s better than (good) sex. Find out why we’re having appalling little of it in the book. Link to pre-order in bio 🙏🏻
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Pub day! 🤗
Thanks to everyone for the interest in The Future of Seduction. Available to order from all fine bookstores
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@samlwalton
Even Grammarly is asking me to do more emotional labor... I was being sincere, dammit!
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@rachsyme
Charlotte: “I don't want to be the up-the-butt girl, because I mean... Men don't marry up-the-butt girl. Whoever heard of Mrs. Up-The-Butt? No, no, no. I can't. I want children and nice bedding, and I just can't handle this right now.”
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Mind blown...this book is the female Stoner! Out now from
@astrahousebooks
and coming from
@PushkinPress
2 March
#ForbiddenNotebook
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How a tiny London publisher picked two Nobel Prize winners —
@frederick65
on risk-taking and the importance of independent
#smallpress
publishers, including
@FitzcarraldoEds
@andothertweets
@OneworldNews
@GalleyBeggars
@PeirenePress
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I’ve written about how time-management techniques focus on the wrong things and
@oliverburkeman
’s thought-provoking book, Four Thousand Weeks, for
@ftweekend
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A privilege and a delight to speak to
@Gospodinov68
&
@rodel_angela
, winners of the 2023 International Booker Prize 🏆, for
@ftweekend
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@alicevjones
@hattiehattie
I’d like to order the fuck off and a handful of men’s names to use as and when 🙃
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As consent is a core topic in ‘The Future of Seduction’, I’ve picked my top 10 books illuminating its complexities for
@GuardianBooks
, incl. works by Mary Gaitskill,
@GarthGreenwell
@CandiceC_W
@FancyEliza
@KRoupenian
@peggyorenstein
&
@KayEngels
👇🏻
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I reviewed
@michaelmagee__
's excellent debut novel, which grapples with class, masculinity & the legacy of the Troubles, for
@IrishTimesBooks
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I just nearly filed copy using ‘double-fisting’ 🙈 In American English it means holding a drink in each hand!
#lostintranslation
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A delight to chat literary prizes, ostalgie & German grammar with Jenny Erpenbeck & Michael Hofmann for
@ft_weekend
🏆
@TheBookerPrizes
@GrantaBooks
@NewDirections
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Starting the year with a bang...I’ve written about the evolution of sex in fiction for
@FTLifeArts
. Featuring
#ThisisPleasure
,
#IntheCut
& the laureate of libido
@garthgreenwell
💥
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A pleasure to chat spring books with
@chris_power
&
@john_self
for
@BBCRadio4
's Open Book following Chris's excellent interview of Murnane 🎧
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I loved
@blgtylr
’s short-story collection Filthy Animals, which I reviewed for the
@IrishTimes
: “Taylor’s characters are sincere without being sentimental — their pain too palpable to perform the cool detachment in vogue among his cohort...”
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This is what happens when people don’t
#supportindiebookshops
(this is where
@Dauntbooks
used to be in S Ken 😭)
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I’m in the June issue of Red talking about why I’m glad the 111 first dates since my divorce didn’t pan out... Pick up a copy with your weekly shop! 🛒
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(Study other languages “even if you never get good enough to speak fluently or read without a dictionary; it’s the single most powerful thing you can do to improve your style.) Literature is larger than anything we can say about it, than any craft we can devise.”
@GarthGreenwell
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I got to review ESSAYS, by the inimitable Lydia Davis (
@HamishH1931
,
@fsgbooks
) for
@ftweekend
👇🏻
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I’ve reviewed Natalia Ginzburg’s wonderful ‘Happiness, as Such’, reissued by
@DauntBooksPub
. “It’s unfortunate that we rarely recognise the happy moments when we’re living them.”
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I’ve reviewed
@manonuphoff
’s ‘Falling is Like Flying’, translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett, for
@TheTLS
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Chuffed to see The Future of Seduction nestled alongside Zadie Smith’s Intimations as a zeitgeisty pick in the Irish Times’ gift guide🎄 🎁🤗
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I’ve written about toxic masculinity for
@ftweekend
, featuring books by Laura Bates, Peggy Orenstein & Kate Manne👇🏻
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@JohannaTC
on Allen Lane's egregious misrepresentation of reviews to blurb the Jordan Peterson PB -- artfully using ellipses to spin praise out of a >2000-word review of a book she had actually found to be "silly, dishonest, a little mad and misogynistic"
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I got to talk to Hilary Mantel about
#TheMirrorandtheLight
, her creative process, and the historical record on the wet dreams of Henry VIII 👑
My Mantel piece for
@irishtimes
👇🏻
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Join me in backing 'Trauma: an anthology' on
@Kickstarter
Looking forward to reading essays by
@marinab52
@judecook_
@fairfairisles
@KatyaTaylor
@VenWelby
@rhiannonlucyc
@neilgriffiths
@crossmansusanna
@saskiavogel
@kirstylogan
@jmlostboys
and more!
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“The writer’s single job is to keep working on a sentence until it feels right...asking ‘does this particular order of words give me pleasure?’” What a treat to spend time with
@GarthGreenwell
. Can’t wait for next week on Condensing Life to a Voice
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I've reviewed Jen Beagin's riot of a novel, BIG SWISS, out from
@FaberBooks
@ScribnerBooks
, for
@ftweekend
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Delighted to have an essay in this collection of reflections on singledom
@SquarePegBooks
. Coming to a bookstore near you in Feb 🧡
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Really enjoyed
@beingvarious
's new short story collection, which I've reviewed for
@TheTLS
🌸
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I’ve reviewed two novels exploring women’s relationship with food — ‘Supper Club’ by Lara Williams & ‘Skin’ by EM Reapy — in the spiffily redesigned
@TheTLS
🍴
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I've written about the literature of grief for
@ftweekend
, featuring new books by
@james_runcie
,
@elizmccracken
&
@ladycariad
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@holliepoetry
I’ve gotten so used to snapping “this isn’t a restaurant” that i’ve actually said it in a restaurant 🤦🏻♀️
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LOVED this episode of the
@tferriss
podcast!
@aishatyler
such an inspiration on tenacity & “delightful detachment” 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
#warofart
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"From then on, I knew how to go about it: by paying attention to the world at large and by seeing myself for what I am: an embodied soul, specific, created, neither the main subject nor the person in charge"
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I’ve reviewed
@SusieBoyt
’s beautifully rendered new novel, Loved and Missed, for
@ftweekend
💫
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@eleanor_wood
@OteghaUwagba
addresses this is in her forthcoming book
#WeNeedtoTalkAboutMoney
(not specific to the arts but the lack of transparency around 💰)
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Great piece by Jacques Testard
@FitzcarraldoEds
on publishing Olga Tokarczuk, whose work was brought to his attention by
@jenniferlcroft
. Looking forward to ‘The Books of Jacob’!
'It is hugely gratifying to see such a brilliant author rewarded by the Nobel prize which, for all its faults, remains the most important prize in literature and the highest accolade'
#NobelPrize
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Pub day!🥂🍾
Delighted to have an essay included in this anthology, out now from
@SquarePegBooks
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In lieu of a 🥂 at 🎄 parties, a big T-Y to the editors who commissioned me in 2020. A joy to write for
@frederick65
@mariacrawford74
@battlelaura
@MartinDoyleIT
@questingvole
@paullaity
@lindesayi
@edwest
@CatharineMorris
@TobyLichtig
@Natashalunn
@Lit_Review
@leafarbuthnot
(🧵)
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My
@TheTLS
review of
@CCriadoPerez
’s important book ‘Invisible Women’, in which she exposes the often inadvertent sexism still at play today, the pervasive consequences of the data gap on women, and the risks of
#algorithms
perpetuating implicit biases
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After 12 days of Christmas in tier 4
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From Jenny Erpenbeck’s wonderful collection of reflections ‘Not a Novel’, tr. by Kurt Beals, coming from
@GrantaBooks
in November
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What’s the process to appeal? 😬
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I’ve written about our enduring attraction to 📚 for
@ftweekend
, featuring new books by Rebecca Lee,
@OldFortunatus
&
@SeminaryCoop
’s Jeff Deutsch
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@mrsjaneymac
This bugged me too, and according to
@sarahjphughes
the character of Jolene was much more developed in the book
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As we go into lockdown for my book launch, delighted to see that it’s available on
@bookshop_org_UK
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My take on the (d)evolution of the language of love, including the addictive nature of texting 🎰 and the limits of 😍😘💋... Featuring insights from linguists
@MMcSweeney7
&
@VyvEvans
and anthropologists Prof Robin Dunbar & Natasha Dow Schüll 🙏🏻
Sending someone emoji flowers is the modern way of saying 'I like you'
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'Computers only need a tiny set of human-like characteristics for users to feel a bond with them'
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I’ve written about how the currency of Likes changed, well, everything. Check out other great
#SlowReviews
incl.
@colincraiggrant
on
@THTCthemovie
,
@elle_hunt
on Lorde,
@DrMatthewSweet
on the X-files,
@ScottFilmCritic
on Star Trek &
@petepaphides
on Kid A
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I’ve written about the contemporary novelists challenging the marriage plot 💍, including
@kileyreid
@lilykingbooks
@Lara_A_Williams
👇🏻
Happy ever after: why writers are falling out of love with marriage
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“I am a doctor; I work in a hospice. I am painfully aware that science keeps us alive. But what keeps us living is art”
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I once had my IG acct permanently deleted for an art nude. I hope the trolls posting comments such as “i wish the little mustached man had succeeded in eradicating yr people” & adding me to lists like “Goebbels” are getting more than a slap on the wrist
@TwitterSupport
@instagram
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Stunning piece by
@MartinDoyleIT
about life during the Troubles, from an anthology ed. by
@paul_mc_veigh
, out with
@unbounders
in July. “For me, the deepest divide was between those on all sides who supported the taking of life and those who opposed it.”
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My bed converts into a home gym too 😆
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I’ve reviewed Zadie Smith’s short-story collection, ‘Grand Union’, in this weekend’s
@FTLifeArts
👇🏻
@HamishH1931
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I loved Nuala O’Connor’s NORA, a retelling of Nora Barnacle’s love story with James Joyce (complete with an imagining of the ‘dirty letters’) 💌
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@elle_hunt
I feel like even i am less picky than this:
What were you hoping for?
“To meet someone who appreciates me for the gift to humanity that I know I am, and ideally looks like the reincarnation of Boudica”
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Fascinating discussion on the birth of the modern & the fallout of the first world war with
@frederick65
,
@Elif_Safak
, Michèle Barrett and Margaret MacMillan
#FTWeekendFestival
#ftbooks
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What an absolute treat, Elizabeth Strout interviewed by
@Natashalunn
@Waterstones
. “She just showed up one day....” ~ Strout about writing about Olive Kitteridge in
#OliveAgain
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What an evening discussing
#IntheCut
@wnbooks
at
@secondshelfbks
with
@LucyScholes
@OliviaSudjic
@fairfairisles
@meganfnhunter
@emma_a_paterson
@letticefranklin
@kate_moreton
🔪❣️❣️❣️
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I’ve reviewed ‘Writers & Lovers’ for
@IrishTimes
. Among stiff competition, one of my favorite novels of 2020 so far 💛
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Buy this book, unless you’re on my holiday gift list, in which case you’ll be getting one from me 🎁😊 Chock-full of fascinating tidbits about the practices of creative women👇🏻
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I’ve reviewed Frances Leviston’s excellent debut short-story collection, featuring ten women called Claire, for
@FTLifeArts
👇🏻
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@meghamohan
Happy to help anyone interested in starting out in literary journalism, which could certainly use more diversity.
Also,
@stephanieboland
’s guide to pitching is gold:
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Thank you
@johnwilliamsnyt
, Paul Mendez,
@MaazaMengiste
&
@Doug_D_Stuart
for an excellent
@edbookfest
session! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#teamodyssey
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Lloyd Evans's racist recounting of a happy ending is top-notch journalism as well... 😬
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I've reviewed Lionel Shriver's new novel, which imagines a world in which intelligence is maligned, for
@ftweekend
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Fascinating talk w/
@drkatedevlin
arguing for a future of design-driven robots over objectifying dolls (in a church...)
#sextechhack
#sextech
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ICYMI in a Boxing-Day food coma, I got to chat to
@aliceazania
about dating during the pandemic, how changes in tech &
#MeToo
have affected seduction, and my path from Wall Street to writing 😊
Have a listen! 🎙
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