A contemplative exploration of writing, identity, and friendship through epistolary meditations and literary critique.
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A contemplative exploration of writing, identity, and friendship through epistolary meditations and literary critique.
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Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to Édouard Glissant to study the necessary opacity of identity...
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Moderate focus on identity and social issues in writing and publishing.
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Minor references to systemic challenges faced by a black woman in publishing.
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