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Handle of writer-editor Jay A. Fernandez, @writer730. Editor at @lareviewofbooks. Formerly @latimes, @washingtonpost, @THR. Here for the love of language.

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My first piece for @lithub / "Literature may be endlessly elastic, but book criticism has best practices and parameters that are no less potent for being unwritten." // 13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and How to Avoid Them https://t.co/r4tLVThK4V via @lithub

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Read @_sambuckland_ on Isabel Allende’s “A Long Petal of the Sea,” me editing, @Writer730 @LAReviewofBooks @PenguinRandom #BallantineBooks Love and Solitude in Exile: Isabel Allende’s “A Long Petal of the Sea” https://t.co/p7aX4sitxx via @lareviewofbooks

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New read: @NickBurns smartly reviewing António Lobo Antunes’s “Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water” for @LAReviewofBooks, me editing @Writer730 // @YalePress The Inhospitable Wilderness of “Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water” https://t.co/vnsoovmHVC via @lareviewofbooks

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Dive into the weird and cringe-y via Alan Scherstuhl's (@studiesincrap) look at glorious '80s pulp horror. Me editing, @writer730 @Valancourt_B // Monstrous Acts and Erections of Doom: On Five ’80s-Era “Paperbacks from Hell” https://t.co/6crtERHzbQ via @LAReviewofBooks

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Teow Lim Goh finds a provocative angle on the likability debate in literature and its relationship to oppression in her essay "The Dehumanizing Politics of Likability," me in the editing booth @writer730 // https://t.co/Og4N1zSylI via @LAReviewofBooks

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@benloory A near-perfect film that rewards repeated viewings unlike any other. Its payoffs, while bleak, feel true and inevitable.

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Come listen to this panel discuss the paths to writing glory...

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L.A. lit friends and journos, come check this out...

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@carmenmmachado Piels

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For @LAReviewofBooks, @joobinbekhrad on Simin Daneshvar’s classic "Savushun" and today's fraught geopolitics. Me editing @Writer730 // Iran Under Pressure, Again... https://t.co/MK8PTzBfS0 via @LAReviewofBooks

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Highly recommend giving this sharp, insightful, elegiac essay by @KathleenMRooney a read, me @Writer730 editing for @LAReviewofBooks // No Firm Fortress, No Retreat: Reading, and Mourning, “Moby-Dick” on the Cusp of Climate Catastrophe https://t.co/LOb4E08MZH via @LAReviewofBooks

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Brian Evenson reviews former @WGAWest president Howard Rodman's sprawling new novel, which stars Captains Ahab & Nemo. Me editing for @LAReviewofBooks, @writer730 / Past and Pastiche in Howard A. Rodman’s “The Great Eastern” https://t.co/WPJtSITTcx via @lareviewofbooks

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Richard Ford talking to 3 Montana State U. grad students: "Life has no goals and no meanings, it has nothing. Just ants on a fucking cupcake." Me editing for @LAReviewofBooks, @writer730 // The Artistic Toolkit of Richard Ford https://t.co/MCCLW7nnPQ via @LAReviewofBooks

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For @LAReviewofBooks, @LoriBrister reviews Ayşegül Savaş’s debut novel, "Walking on the Ceiling," in which she hears echoes of "Mrs. Dalloway"; me editing @Writer730 @RiverheadBooks // "The Pain and Pleasure of Creating Worlds" https://t.co/6lFqE6Y6YS via @lareviewofbooks

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Give a read to @Brad_Sides interviewing international ravioli expert @Kristen_Arnett about her "beautiful, transcendent" debut novel, "Mostly Dead Things," for @LAReviewofBooks, me in the editing suite @Writer730 // https://t.co/rI3vK9jpLn via @LAReviewofBooks

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Give a read to @MZeir interviewing @glossitis about selective memory and the uneven progress of feminism for @LAReviewofBooks, edit: @Writer730. // Talking with Lynne Tillman About the Everlasting Fight for Women’s Independence https://t.co/xna6dImYrl via @LAReviewofBooks

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Check out this lovely review of "Honey in the Carcase" by Courtney Angela Brkic for @LAReviewofBooks, me in the editing booth @Writer730 @dzancbooks / The Beautiful and Brutal in Josip Novakovich’s “Honey in the Carcase” https://t.co/gu20OChB3J via @lareviewofbooks

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I’ve been seeing all the praise for Deaf Republic shutter by these last few weeks, and now I get it. This haunting book has had my attention all along, but @ilya_poet‘s line about men being “just souls on crutches of bone” made my galloping heart pull up as if by reins.

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A new Q&A I did with Nnamdi Ehirim, a young Nigerian novelist and entrepreneur looking to break new ground in renewable energy and fiction, for @PacificStand @CounterpointLLC #NnamdiEhirim #fiction #Africanfiction #Nigeria #PrinceofMonkeys #FelaKuti // https://t.co/a9Mi7rmB1b

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Really enjoyed working on this moving personal essay about identity and cultural self-reflection by @XochitlJulisa for @LAReviewofBooks. @Writer730 // Invisible No More: How “Fade Into You” Reflects the L.A. Chicanx Experience https://t.co/9KlCgSRSsS via @lareviewofbooks

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For @LAReviewofBooks Richard M. Cho analyzes migration and myth in Hwang Sok-yong’s novel “Princess Bari." Me in the editing booth, @writer730 // To Hell and Back: Modernized Myth in Hwang Sok-yong’s “Princess Bari” https://t.co/KUmCJR4lYS via @lareviewofbooks