CR Newsletter Jan: Moving to Substack

Hello beautiful reading folk.  Happy new year!  Just a quick post to let you know that I'm moving this blog over to Substack.  After deleting 40 spam messages, I figure that's a better place for interaction and as people had already begun following me over there even though I was just reading other people's blogs (with the occasional comment), I figured it was a more active place.  So if you want our monthly updates and maybe a bit more - festival news, the odd poetry essay, and other literary things that don't quite fit anywhere else, that's your place.  I promise I will never monetise it - Compulsive Reader, the Podcast, and my Substack will always be free, so please join over there as I slowly transition this site.  Thank you for your ongoing engagement - I know this is a busy, noisy, and content rich world and I appreciate you!  

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter December

Hello readers.  Our December newsletter is currently on the way to your inbox.  This month features two terrific new giveaways including an audiobook, as well as new reviews like The Under Hum by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White, The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin by PS Cottier and NG Hartland, Invisible Wasp by Stephanie Powell along with many more including interviews with Interview with Zoje Stage,  Shari Caplan, and Steve Rasnic Tem.  We also have our featured interview with PS Cottier and NG Hartland and of course our big literary news roundup.  You can view an online copy here: 

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter November

 

The November Compulsive Reader newsletter has just gone out and is making its way to inboxes around the world right now.  This month we have double the usual number of reviews and interviews (trying to get on top of the backlog) and a whole bunch of exciting global literary news including such things as the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Cundill History Prize, the Nobel Prize, the Giller Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, the Patrick White, and the National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose to name just a few. Of course we all have our monthly giveaways. If you haven't gotten it, want to check it out, or can't wait, visit: the online archive.  To sign up, visit: http://www.compulsivereader.com. 

Compulsive Reader Newsletter - October 2024

Hi readers.  The October Compulsive Reader Newsletter has just gone out with a baker's dozen of new reviews including Beam of Light by John Kinsella (catch John Kinsella, our featured intervewee reading from and talking about Beam of Light here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4b5Q9iZrRwSper0vrvXlUD?si=mGha_ip-Qm-CTNHOT6nJLQ), Maze by Jennifer Juneau, The Book of Happiness by Joseph Mark Glazner, and Diane Mehta’s Tiny Extravaganzas.  We've got our usual big literary news roundup for the month of September, and two fantastic new giveaways.  If you're a subscriber it should be in your inbox soon, but if you can't wait, you can: View it in your browser.  If you're not a subscriber, sign up here: http://www.compulsivereader.com

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter - Sept 24

The Sept Compulsive Reader newsletter is on its way to readers around the world.  This month has the usual big literary news roundup as well as new interviews from Anne Elezabeth Pluto, Ruth Oskolkoff, and our feature podcast, Sarah Temporal (you can go straight to that one here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/compulsivereader/episodes/Sarah-Temporal-on-Tight-Bindings-e2nmqbd

We also have loads of new reviews and two terrific new giveaways.  

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CR Newsletter August 2024

The Compulsive Reader newsletter for August is on its way to inboxes. This month features quite a few interviews including our Compulsive Reader Talks feature with Patti Miller, whose classic book Writing True Stories has been extensively revised and reissued.  We also have reviews of Zero at the Bone by Christian Wiman, The Inhabitants by Beth Castrodale, Little River of Amazement by Mary Kay Rummel, and Not So Distant World by Grace Cavalieri to name just a few. Of course there is a new book giveaway for a copy of Farhang Book One by Patrick Woodcock,  and the big literary news round up. I always have lots of books to giveaway and I've been choosing some book winners at random from subscribers as well, so make sure you're subscribed and you might just win a book!  

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Compulsive Reader Newsletter July

The July Compulsive Reader Newsletter has just gone out. This month's issue has a bunch of new reviews including Russell Blackford's How We Became Post-Liberal,  Preet Kaur Rajpal's membry, Carolina Hotchandani’s The Book Eaters to name just a few and on our podcast Julia Levitina reading from and talking about her book The Girl from Moscow. We have a new giveaway for a copy of Civilisation Française by Mary Fleming, and of course our giant roundup of June's literary news.  If you can't wait or want a preview before subscribing you can check it out in the public archive here: July Compulsive Reader newsletter

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