![]() ![]() It really made me sit up and fall in love with grammar in a deeper way, to appreciate that it has such a deep and beautiful system of reason behind it. There is so much precision to the construction of each sentence. I discovered Lutz when I was in high school. Gary Lutz’s early short story collection, Stories in the Worst Way. When Aristotle notes that man is a rational animal one strains forward, cupping his ear, to hear which of those words is emphasized-rational animal, rational animal? Which am I? Child murderer, child murderer?” Amazing… …helped me become a better writer: I mean child murderer, that is, a murderer who happens to be a child, or a child who happens to be a murderer. It goes on: “I don’t mean child-murderer, though that’s an idea. “I was a child murderer.” This is the opening line in Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates. It’s both a disgusting love letter to women and a grotesque self-portrait of a man who will never understand them.has the best opening line: It is so deft and hilarious, and is narrated by the most depraved and brilliant protagonist. It completely flipped on its head my conception of what a novel is. The Barry Paris one is extremely detailed! …made me laugh out loud: …currently sits on my nightstand:Ī few Audrey Hepburn biographies. It is also a survival story, and was very inspiring to me after I lost my brother. It’s a beautiful memoir about sudden and incomprehensible loss. I’m just saying to myself, “Wow!” at the end of every paragraph. I think it’s so good that it exhausts me, honestly. I’ve read the first hundred pages a dozen times. ![]() Probably the most important American novel of the last century. The last time I spent significant time in Paris I read A Life of Picasso I: The Prodigyby John Richardson. The first time I read it, I was in Paris on a high school trip. It has a bit of everything: the truth, the times, his adventures, his associates, his struggles. …I recommend over and over again:Ī Moveable Feast by Hemingway. It’s “A True Story” accounting for the author’s encounters with aliens, and I love the way it’s written: frank, intelligent, self-aware, and very descriptive. The book that: …kept me up way too late:Ĭommunionby Whitley Strieber. Good at: Consuming true crime shows, solitude. The Newton, Massachusetts-raised, Pasadena-based author played four instruments by age seven (her Iranian father is a violinist and Croatian mother is a violist) skipped 8th grade got her MFA at Brown and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford lives in 1920s stone house called Casa de Pájaros (house of birds) consults a Vedic astrologer, has a mixed breed named Walter wrote in a fictional letter to Donald Trump that she uses her middle name Charlotte at Starbucks taught English and worked in a punk bar in Wuhan, China. She is adapting her novella, McGlue, for Vice Films, for which she’ll be a producer film rights to MYORAR were optioned by Margot Robbie’s production company and Atlas Films and she and her husband, Luke Goebel, adapted the screenplay for Eileen, starring Anne Hathaway, and co-wrote Red, White and Water. She also contributed a story for Gagosian’s Picture Books series. It also spoke to Proenza Schouler, for whom she wrote a short story for the duo’s fall 2022 collection. Sales of her second, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, about a young woman who attempts to sleep her trauma away for a year, rose during the pandemic, as readers contended with their own isolation. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, Moshfegh’s first book, Eileen, won the PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel. Her third novel ( Death in Her Hands) came out during lockdown now comes Ottessa Moshfegh’s fourth, Lapvona (Penguin Press), written during lockdown. ![]()
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