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Hi all, and welcome to our Introductory post for our read-along of Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red.

Some general questions:

• What do you know about the author?
• Have you read them before? If so, what have you read?
• Have you read this work before?
• Is there something (a theme or otherwise) that new readers should keep an eye out for?
• Or, anything else you may think of!

Feel free to start reading! By next Saturday, you should read about the first half of the book, taking us from the first page until Chapter XXV. (The Tunnel) which ends on page 77 for the most common edition of the book.

If you would like to volunteer for that post or the following one, please let me know!

READING SCHEDULE

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The winner for the twenty-ninth r/TrueLit read along is Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson! (There was no vote this time since last time this novel tied with the previous read-along choice).

Pagination is based on the Vintage Contemporaries version with the volcano on the front.

The Schedule

Week	Date	Section	Volunteers
1	15 August 2026	Introduction*	N/A
2	22 August 2026	Red Meat... - XXV. Tunnel (pp. 3-77)	N/A
3	29 August 2026	XXXVI. Aeroplane - Interview (pp. 78-149) and Wrap-Up	N/A

*This is not to discuss any introduction to the book, but to discuss what you may know about it or about the author prior to reading.

We use volunteers for each weekly post. So, please comment if you would like to volunteer for a specific week. When it comes time for you to make your post, u/Woke-Smetana will communicate with you ahead of time to make sure everything is looking good!

Volunteer Rules of Thumb:

1. Genuinely, do it how you want. The post could be a summary of the chapter with guided questions, your own analysis with guided questions, or even just the guided questions. Please volunteer knowing this shouldn't be a burden. If you want to contribute just by making the post with maybe 3-5 questions for readers to answer, that is more than enough!
2. Be willing to make the post at least somewhat early in the day on the Saturdays they should be posted. Before noon, if possible, but at least not waiting until the evening. (If you do have to delay it until the evening, let us know).
3. If we do not have a volunteer for a certain week or if the volunteer ends up not being able to make the post, we will just do the standard weekly post for that week that we've done before. So please, volunteer!
4. Also, please let us know ahead of time if you volunteered and end up not being able to do it. It's not a big deal at all, but it'd be nice to know so we're not sitting around waiting.

I am going to reiterate Rule 4. Please. Just let us know if you change your mind or end up getting busy.

Before next week's Introduction, buy your books so they have time to ship if necessary, and then once the introduction is posted you are free to start reading!

Thanks again everyone!

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Hi all.

With the recent removal of the auto-moderator, there has been a large influx of posts that typically would have been filtered out. Given our mod community is small and busy in other realms of life, sometimes certain posts remain up that probably shouldn't have, and some which have straight-up broken seven rules make it through until we come back and see them.

So! Three important things:

1. All rules are in the side bar. You are expected to read and know them before making a post. If you have never posted here, this is a must. Given the influx of these types of rule breaking posts, repeat offenders will be banned. Your first post will be removed, and your second post will result in banning. These rules are not convoluted.

2. Please report! Not every report will result in removal. Moderators take many things into account. However, if you see a post that is possibly or definitely breaking a rule, please report it. This notifies us more immediately and directly, so we don't have to open reddit and scan through the recent posts on the page.

3. No AI in any circumstances. This is technically already stated in 5.3, but I am reiterating it here because the influx of AI written/edited posts is at an all-time high. There is no AI allowed for any reason whatsoever. AI use will result in an immediate ban. This is an anti-AI community. See yourself out if you disagree.

Thank you to those who help keep this community a great place to talk about literature. Let's try to keep it that way.

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