writer • translator of francophone lit • author of The Age of Loneliness out now from @GraywolfPress • she/her
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Grateful for this first (starred!) review — August is starting to feel so soon 💙
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Please join us on Tuesday night 7:30pm ET when @lauramarris will read from her acclaimed THE AGE OF LONELINESS and talk about writing a hybrid memoir. The Zoom link will be available on Tues afternoon. Here is my review of her book ... bit.ly/4gmZasp
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A new episode of Graywolf Lab: The Podcast is out now!
Carmen Giménez Carmen speaks to @lauramarris, author of THE AGE OF LONELINESS, and Roger Reeves, author of DARK DAYS: FUGITIVE ESSAYS, about the role of the essayist and critic today.
Listen here:
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"Marris’s nine tightly woven essays defy the inadequacies of language to describe the wounded natural world." On WWB-er @lauramarris—check out some of her work at the link!
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“To read Marris is to find oneself not only in the hands of a lonely soul, but also in those of a dogged detective, an astute historian, & a keen forensic anthropologist.” @LaurenMarkham_ scrupulous & deep on @lauramarris @LAReviewofBooks. lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"To read Marris is to find oneself not only in the hands of a lonely soul, but also those of a dogged detective, an astute historian, and a keen forensic anthropologist," @LaurenMarkham_ writes in her review of Laura Marris’s "The Age of Loneliness." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Such a deep, thoughtful review—thank you @LaurenMarkham_ for thinking alongside these essays with generosity and rigor
"Marris’s nine, tightly woven essays defy the inadequacies of language to describe the wounded natural world." @LaurenMarkham_ considers personal and planetary grief, longing, and estrangement in her review of Laura Marris’s "The Age of Loneliness." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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It's been 126 days since Buffalo's Old Pink burned down. @annuletpoetics let me reflect on the way our best dive bar helped us come into contact with loss. With assists from @MathiasSvalina, @lauramarris, Peter Gizzi, Dale Seever, Fred Moten, and others. annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Ai…
Thank you @wwborders !
Today, we’re spotlighting @lauramarris. She’s the first book reviewer we’ve shined the spotlight on. . .not to mention a translator, poet, and the author of the essay collection “The Age of Loneliness.” buff.ly/3XR3bgm
ALT The text “Contributor Spotlight: Laura Marris” with a portrait of Marris.
ALT The text “Selected Titles. The Age of Loneliness/ Blood Dark (by Louis Guilloux)/ Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe (by Géraldine Schwarz)” with the covers of all three books.
ALT The text “Selected Awards and Fellowships. Shortlist, 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for Blood Dark. Shortlist, 2021 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Géraldine Schwarz’s Those Who Forget. Katharine Bakeless Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference” with the logos of the three organizations.
ALT The text “Book Reviews on WWB. ‘Nastassja Martin’s ‘In the Eye of the Wild’: Embodied by the Bear.’ and ‘Such Lush Despair: Marguerite Duras’s ‘The Easy Life.'“ with the covers of both books.
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A collection of lyric essays considers the ecological and existential loneliness wrought by climate collapse—and how life on our now “emptied, echoing earth” might continue.
Read @carablueadams’s review of @lauramarris’s “The Age of Loneliness.”
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Please read these poems chosen by @MonicaYoun as winners of the BOMB poetry contest.
“Muslims do not clothe the dead. We bury them nude / wrapped in white like righting a broken bone.”
From “ART OF WAR” by Rashed Aqrabawi, winner of BOMB’s 2024 Poetry Contest. Read the three winning pieces in the fall issue.
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“I no longer believe in neat boundaries of sacrifice, or in the salve of corporate penance—that money spent proves the land is clean.”
—@lauramarris, from “Sacrifice Zone: Little Bloody Run”
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For @BOMBmagazine, I had the honor of writing an Editor’s Choice review of Laura Marris’s lyrical and wide-ranging essay collection about the relationship between human loneliness and ecological devastation
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Thank you so much @carablueadams for this review, and especially for reading the thread on birds so beautifully 💙
In “The Age of Loneliness,” Laura Marris “deftly braids together investigations into the harms humans have incurred on the natural world with her own experiences of loneliness.”
Read Cara Blue Adams’s review from our Editor’s Choices.
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@carablueadams wrote a beautiful review of @lauramarris's new book on the personal, ecological, and existential grief and loneliness wrought by climate collapse ❤️🔥
In “The Age of Loneliness,” Laura Marris “deftly braids together investigations into the harms humans have incurred on the natural world with her own experiences of loneliness.”
Read Cara Blue Adams’s review from our Editor’s Choices.
bombmagazine.org/articles/la…
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The fall titles are coming in! We're looking for interesting conversations (and especially insightful reviews) @adroitjournal.
Lots of new titles to cover here by: @queerpoetics, @chanda_feldman, @brittanyroger_, @lauramarris, @KazimAliPoet, and more...
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#PageOne Read the first lines of two debut essay collections, @lauramarris’s The Age of Loneliness (@GraywolfPress) and Anne Anlin Cheng’s Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority (@PantheonBooks). at.pw.org/PageOne2024x6
Deeply grateful to be read this way. Thank you @ronslate for finding such a beautiful way into the essays
"She has given us a model of expression, inquiry & attitude to begin to resist the normalization of our lonely disconnection from what has left and what is leaving.": @ronslate on THE AGE OF LONELINESS by @lauramarris @GraywolfPress bit.ly/4gmZasp
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“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe.
Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. yalereview.org/article/chris…
Very much looking forward to this conversation with @rs_sparks — Saturday at the Dance Palace in Point Reyes! Join us🌻 @PointReyesBooks @GraywolfPress
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Can’t wait to host @lauramarris, @jenkabat, & @olivalejandra_ in store TOMORROW! 7 pm!
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Cleveland and Chicago this weekend! With beautiful friends @jenkabat & Hilary Plum & @olivalejandra_ — come say hello 🌻
Cleveland and Chicago this weekend! With beautiful friends @jenkabat & Hilary Plum & @olivalejandra_ — come say hello 🌻