Beverly Burch

In the Forest and the Trees Getting lost among the leaves

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Join me and the amazing Frances Dinkelspiel at A Great Good Place for Books: 6120 La Salle AVE, Oakland on July 31st at 7pm

I'll be reading from WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW again at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland on July 31st at 7pm. 6120 La Salle Ave. The wonderful Frances Dinkelspiel will join me for a discussion of books and writing. Come talk with us!

Our Migrant Souls How long is the long arc?

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RECOMMENDED READS - Women Writers, Women's Books CLOSE CALL, Elise Hart Kipness In a hard-hitting thriller from the author of Lights Out and Dangerous Play, reporter Kate Green courts danger once again when the famous subject of her next story is ki...

On the Recommended Reads list at BooksbyWomen:
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Thank you, Nina Schuyler, for your brilliant Q&A with me at Book Passage yesterday. Such a great audience!

I'll be reading and talking about books and writing with Nina Schuyler this Saturday, June 28, at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Join us!

Messy Ancestors Am I like these people?

When ancestors are a problem.
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Launching this book on Saturday, June 28. 1pm at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA and talking books with the best, Nina Schuyler. If you're around, join us!

Eyes on the Prize The spirit of the long haul.

We need to sustain and inspire ourselves through what looks like a long resistance. Latest Substack: how people do that. Sing, dance, be together.
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What You Don't Know Playlist · Bburch · 10 items

A book with a playlist. What You Don't Know comes out next week. Meanwhile here's a pre-taste. Have a listen:
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Ghost Stories Are we haunted now?

Are we haunted now?
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Double Consciousness Du Bois: from the margins

I've been thinking about "double consciousness" lately. My latest substack explores this in life and literature. How fragile is the white ego? Whiteness is so hard to talk about now.

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Thank goodness. And keep going!! Bring him home.

U-turning What you don’t know.

Radical change, making a 180° turn, upending your life: sometimes it's necessary. Thinking about this on Substack. burchb.substack.com/p/u-turning

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Tell Me a Story Elizabeth Strout and the Sin-eater

New Substack: what is a sin-eater and what does it have to do with Elizabeth Strout or this administration? Also Sigrid Nunez and the necessity of listening. burchb.substack.com/p/tell-me-a-...

Passing The disappearing self.

Maybe everyone passes. burchb.substack.com/p/passing

APRIL 5! That's the date and don't be late. National protest. Hands Off. Check Indivisible.org to find what's local or even better get yourself to DC.

Literature, nature, politics, Richard Powers's novels and Nina Schuyler's linked stories. Art assemblage mines the connections between things. Substack does the same.
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Desperate Measures Taboos, tattoos, and the soul

And WHEN does the soul arrive? Depends on whether you're a theologian, a poet, or Walt Disney

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New Substack posted today: literary antidotes to the current evils. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Moral Injury What hurts the soul?

It’s that sinking feeling in the gut, the thud in the heart, and the mind saying No, no.
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White is the Color of Fear Color and the White Mind

My last Substack takes apart coded color words for races.
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Women in the Wild Wilderness everywhere

The wilderness we are in now, women.
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Women in the Wild Wilderness everywhere

Feel like we're wandering in the wilderness now? Women have often done so.
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Rethinking...(Almost) Everything | Beverly Burch | Substack Revising, rethinking, remaking: seeing with new eyes. Click to read Rethinking...(Almost) Everything, by Beverly Burch, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Lying and stealing, DT's primary skill set, the suggestively shitty roots of the word "fascism," and the resistance to Orban in Hungary, that's where this Substack post goes.
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The Big Lie "I'm not lying."

I've posted a new Substack piece on lying and the need for counter-narratives called The Big Lie. This would be my counter-narrative.

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The Gilded Age What does it mean to grow old well?

Latest Substack is a broad view on aging.
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