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Correspondence | J D Daniels
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The first collection from a Whiting Writers Award winner whose work has become a fixture of The Paris Review and n+1Can civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in his first book, a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul. Working from his own highly varied experience as a janitor, a night watchman, an adjunct professor, a drunk, an exterminator, a dutiful son he considers how far books and learning and psychoanalysis can get us, and how much we re stuck in the mud.In prose wound as tight as a copper spring, Daniels takes us from the highways of his native Kentucky to the Balearic Islands and from the Pampas of Brazil to the rarefied precincts of Cambridge, Massachusetts. His traveling companions include psychotic kindergarten teachers, Israeli sailors, and Southern Baptists on fire for Christ. In each dispatch, Daniels takes risks not just literary (voice, tone, form) but also more immediate, such as spending two years on a Brazilian jiu-jitsu team (he gets beaten to a pulp, repeatedly) or participating in group psychoanalysis (where he goes temporarily insane). Daniels is that rare thing, a writer completely in earnest whose wit never deserts him, even in extremis. Inventive, intimate, restless, streetwise, and erudite, The Correspondence introduces a brave and original observer of the inner life under pressure."
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caittfin
Correspondence | J D Daniels
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today was all spring cleaning and letter writing. now for an evening of reading! i've been struggling to find time to read with my new job, so i've got some catch-up to do if i want to stay on top of my tbr and reading goals this year! #litsylove

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Hey! Just checking on you! Hope all is well 💛 3y
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Cuilin
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#litsylove

Not exactly caught up but, welcomes and some “thinking of you”, are complete, now for some replies.

Helen19 Beautiful stamps! 4y
Cuilin @Helen19 thanks. I got your card. Be on the lookout for something in the mail, Montessori related. 🎁 4y
Helen19 @Cuilin 😮How exciting!!! Thank you! X 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 4y
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Theshadedbuffalo
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And thank you for all my most current #jb mail!! Can‘t wait to catch up on all of my correspondence in the new year! I‘ve got goals, people!! 😜 @CoffeeNBooks @EH2018 @debthmpsn @Kdgordon88 @BookwormAHN @Lovesbooks87

Kaye You and me both, Branddy. I actually went to the store tonight to pick up new cards and stickers so I‘m raring to go. 📝 🖊 6y
BookwormAHN 😺😺 6y
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Theshadedbuffalo
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FINALLY almost all caught up with my #jb responses! I have one left, and then I can move on to new ones. Hooray!!

Lovesbooks87 Yay! I just worked on some of mine too! 6y
Theshadedbuffalo @Lovesbooks87 I had so many, and I was feeling guilty. I‘m glad I‘m almost caught up! 6y
Lovesbooks87 @Theshadedbuffalo we understand! Life happens! 6y
JoScho I agree with @Lovesbooks87 we get it. There is stack sitting on my dresser right now I need to reply to. 6y
CoffeeNBooks Like I told George recently, it doesn't matter if #jb mail comes in a timely manner or not, I'm just always so happy when it arrives!! 💌 6y
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