5/13/2023 0 Comments Book lovers review![]() ![]() So, problems with cash flow and love life. But I’m also trying not to think about sex.” I’m like a teenager trying not to think about sex. In opening lines that are both breezy and potent, Casey says: “I have a pact with myself not to think about money in the morning. She lives in a small room - a former potting shed that still smells like “loam and rotting leaves” - attached to the garage of a friend of her brother’s. Its narrator, Casey Peabody, is a 31-year-old who bikes three miles to and from work as a waitress in Harvard Square. Her new book, “Writers & Lovers,” set in 1997, begins in mourning and frustration, but it more or less persuasively opens out to genuine, even giddy, hope. The novelist Lily King must be in Hirsch’s camp. The poet Edward Hirsch, in response to Montherlant’s edict, once wrote: “I don’t believe that only sorrow/and misery can be written.” ![]() Everyone wants to be happy, but what serious reader wants to read about happiness? The French author Henry de Montherlant said that “happiness writes in white ink on a white page.” It can’t be captured not with dignity, anyway. ![]()
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