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Let’s Talk About Love

Curated by Naoise Dolan


About the Curator
Naoise Dolan is an Irish novelist, best known for her breakout novel “Exciting Times.” She is from Dublin, but she has spent time living in Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore and England. She obtained a degree from Trinity College Dublin in 2016 and later a masters in Victorian literature from Oxford University.

About the Folio

Love is messy and can happen between anyone. It’s probably what makes life worth living. There have always been ways of loving one another beyond the Austenian template, and I chose this list with an eye to capturing that range of emotion. (Not to knock Austen – she’s on the list!) Love gone horribly wrong, love in barely perceptible moments, family love in its full complexity, old flames, community, the patterns driving our quest to be loved in the first place — it’s all there in life, and it’s all there on the page.

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In the Dream House

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In the Dream House

In the Dream House

By Carmen Maria Machado
This is one of the smartest, most engrossing books I’ve ever read. Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir explores the cultural context and lived reality of an abusive lesbian relationship. By interweaving life and scholarship, Machado often manages to be witty, sensory and scholarly within the same paragraph. “It was terrible because I wanted to believe that my love was unique and my pain was unique, as all of us do.”

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