Beauty & War

New books from Idra Novey & Alice Winn; the bizarre economy of blurbs

I really do promise that rapid-fire substacks won’t become the norm. But I’ve been preparing for two events this week about novels that impressed me, and that I think are worth your time, and I wanted to think about them a little more here. It also seems like a good opportunity to write about books, since I haven’t done much of that yet on this substack…