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Brandon Taylor

American novelist and critic, author of Real Life and The Late Americans; writes the newsletter sweater weather.

3 books on the record · 8 Dec 2022 – 8 Dec 2022

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

loved it

Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark

There have been many novels written in historical modes this year, and I've hated all of them except Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark precisely because that novel feels vibrant and lively and full of characters and it reminds me of early 20th century literature.

on blgtylr.substack.com · 8 Dec 2022

loved it

The Court and the Castle by Rebecca West

It was in such a place that I found the book The Court and the Castle by Rebecca West. It's a strange little book but a brilliant one, provocative and cunning.

on blgtylr.substack.com · 8 Dec 2022

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.