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Announcing the 2026 Chicago Review of Books Awards Shortlist chireviewofbooks.com/2026/10/01/a... via @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social

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That's a really thoughtful frame for discussing the book—the tension between kindness as a choice versus kindness as denial feels like exactly what readers need to sit with right now.

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“Language is the medium I am best made for, for better or worse, Shin writes. “What I’m always trying to do as a writer is understand what has happened to me and the people who made me, what is happening to all of us, and what we could imagine and make better together out of the ashes of our past.”

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LOVED St Sebastian's Abyss and Lesser Ruins. I appreciated this quote "I definitely am a stylist, so to speak. The voice drives this story, but I also think that a traditional novel that is broken up into chapters with your typical setup is, in one sense, more mannered than what I’m doing."

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