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As I was waiting for this email, I had the thought “don’t talk to me until I’ve had my Fran Magazine”, which would go well with the funky logo on a coffee mug. 2024 merch??

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It'll happen!!!

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would pair terrifically with my “fuck off, I’m reading” mug from Strand. great idea.

(Fran Magazine is my favorite newsletter and I will keep spreading the word to get people to subscribe!!)

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what if you made mugs...that said...Fran Mugazine... just spit balling

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omg or totes that said Fran Bagazine

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Taking major notes

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the prophecy has foretold sweaters

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oh my god take literally all my money

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I'm a very new sub but I am very grateful for the magazine (happy happy birthday!!). I'm reading the Neapolitan Quarter rn for the *first* time and I'm hyped to hear about how your re-read goes.

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Thank you! I am too. I brought them all on a vacation and tore through them in about two and a half weeks. The first was the hardest for me to get to - I am indifferent towards the interiority of children?? or: I was in my 20s - and am curious if it'll read quicker/differently this time around. How are you finding them so far? And thank you for subscribing!

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Literally grateful for fran magazine!

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Twenty twenty Fran!

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We need merch! I would love a Fran Magazine bucket hat

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laughing at math magazine!!

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I should do an issue on #math

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Mathstro?

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actual war crimes notwithstanding he should be tried in the hague for not putting the original fast car on the playlist. & a SUMMER MIX at that?? it’s an autumn song

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THIS!

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Yay! So excited for another year of Fran Magazine, and for the rereading reports in particular, as someone whose yearly reading is about 60% re-reads and there's nothing I can do about it!

Also, consider this another vote for Woolf May (the logo could do something with the W/M mirroring maybe?), either Orlando or Jacob's Room would be great.

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Noted!! Jacob's Room on the list for this year for sure.

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thank you for this heads up about rereading the Neapolitan quartet later this year so I can plan my own reread accordingly

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(Count of) Monte Cristo May!! I have been dying to read this. Anna Karenina. I want to read another really long classic that I'd never read otherwise. Please just don't threaten me with Joyce June i would literally die of happiness

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Anna K feels like an option but I am haunted by a grad school prof who told me not to start with that one, and though I've read other Russian lit this does feel like it would be a *re*-start in a way where it might feel too challenging. Phil has also been advocating for Monte Cristo (or OG Musketeers) as a possible read this year too...

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Happy Birthday to Fran Magazine - my second favorite email to get behind the latest vinyl from Turntable Lab.

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I'll take it!!!! Thank you!

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how’s “to the lighthouse” by virginia woolf sound? or maybe we go crazier with the gormenghast trilogy... mervyn may?

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Phil would love nothing more than Gormenghast trilogy...

One of my goals this year is to revisits the Woolfs I've read - To The Lighthouse being one of them. I think because it's a reread that knocks it out of the running but maybe a different Woolf?

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I’m gonna second (third) Gormenghast because it was already near the top of my TBR for this year, would happily join a readalong

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Two votes for Gormenghast with a backing from Phil himself... Mervyn May is real, folks!

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Okay... maybe if not the May read... then it will happen this year... too many (three) guys are asking!!!

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I’ve been allowing Gormenghast to collect dust for over a year now, so I think I need a Mervyn May in my life this year.

Which Woolf do you have on your reading list? I’ve also planned on reading Orlando this year!

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I'm planning to reread Dalloway for sure, and To The Lighthouse. Maybe a reread of The Waves. I'd like to do Jacob's Room for the first time. Maybe also Orlando?

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Oh , Jacob’s Room would be great to do too! If a Woolf isn’t the book for May, I’ll read it with you in spirit.

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Gormenghast is so busting!!! I know Fran loves “weird guys” and baroque prose so it’s like….. what are we waiting for??????

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