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BuzzFeed. Brain Pickings. Blog of a Bookslut. In Our MagazinesMarch 2014 Poems by Edith Södergran"My Life of the Mind, or How I Learned to Embrace Intellectual Insecurity and Distrust Neuroscience" by Dana BeckerUnder the Surface by Mojca KumerdejArt Portfolio by Michael Reedy April 15, 2014 Image: Leonora Carrington, Le chant des oiseaux In the April issue of Bookslut, Nicholas Vajifdar reviews Jane Bowles’s novel Two Serious Ladies, which was reissued by HarperCollins earlier this year. Jane Bowles is almost as famous for her undeserved obscurity as she is for the strength of her body of work. A Google search for her name turns up results from blogs titled things like “Writers No One Reads;” The Daily Beast’s piece on Two Serious Ladies starts off with the claim “You’ve likely never heard of Jane Bowles...”

For those who would like to know more about this unsung modernist writer, here are some brief essays: “All of Jane Bowles’s writing has about it an otherness that feels expressive of a child’s perceptions. April 14, 2014 "slut. " Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) | Understanding News in the Information Age.

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