favorites of 2022

favorite posts, books, poems, skincare products, & more

Happy Thursday!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• A yearly recap (here’s last year’s) of your favorite posts from this year

• My personal 2022 favorites

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Your favorite iterations of this year’s newsletter (or at least your most clicked-on!):

interrogating your poetics

the art of the rejection letter

on plagiarism

on plagiarism, again

the art of formatting your submission

the art of the bio

the art of the cover letter

30 days of prompts: day 30

on tracking your progress

on community

on stamina

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My go-to skincare products in 2022:

• This sunscreen

• Also this one

• This moisturizer

• Also this one

• …Also this one

• This vitamin C serum

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The best books I read in 2022:

• Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime

• Field Study

• Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco

• All We Ask is You to be Happy

• Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief

• Meltwater

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My favorite publications of 2022:

• “After Seven Years I'm Home Again & Animal as Ever”

• “Meditation on Need”

• “[Like Any Girl-Child, I Never Wanted to Obey—]”

• “In Praise of the Nights Her Thighs Flame Like Fields of Wheat”

• “Home (A Metonym for Loss)”

• “Self-Portrait as Childhood Photos, Missing”

• “On Gratitude”

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Anyway:

The next issue of The West Review comes out at the end of the month—and I’m only able to pay writers thanks to your help.

As such, if you live in the US, I hope you’ll consider buying 5 books for $30. Selections for you are curated with care, and all proceeds go straight to our contributors!

& have a great week—

-Despy Boutris
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