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Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s essays and short stories have been published in The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, and the Sycamore Review. She has received several Pushcart Prize nominations and a Notable Essay Listing in Best American Essays. She lives in Maine.

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NYU Shanghai Reads The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating has been selected for the academic year 2022-2023 for the NYU Shanghai Reads program. This program brings the NYU Shanghai community together around a single common text chosen to spark intercultural dialogue among members of our diverse community. While serving as a key theme for first-year orientation, the whole university community is also welcome to participate

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“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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“Survival often depends on a specific focus: A relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility. Or something more ephemeral: the way the sun passes through the hard seemingly impenetrable glass of a window and warms the blanket, or how the wind, invisible but for its wake, is so loud one can hear it through the insulated walls of a house.”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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“The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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May BoTM Nominations ~ A Book Less Than 200 Pages ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books move onto final poll

Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, & Baking Biscuits

by Reese Witherspoon

10 votes, 28.6%

The Outsiders

by S.E. Hinton

7 votes, 20.0%

The Pearl

by John Steinbeck

5 votes, 14.3%

A Three Dog Life

by Abigail Thomas

4 votes, 11.4%

The Penelopiad

by Margaret Atwood

3 votes, 8.6%

By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

by Julie Anne Peters

2 votes, 5.7%

Often I Am Happy

by Jens Christian Grøndahl

2 votes, 5.7%

The Vegetarian

by Han Kang

1 vote, 2.9%

Ephemeral Summer

by Sheila Myers

1 vote, 2.9%

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

0 votes, 0.0%

35 total votes

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