Aatif Rashid Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I finally read Stuart Dybek’s short story Pet Milk—is it a perfect short story? Is it one of the greatest short stories ever written? I think maybe. I feel like I’ll try to write a story like this for the rest of my life.

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I know these days The Secret History is considered mainstream and basic or whatever, but it was honestly the funniest and most compelling thing I read by a mile. I think people in general misunderstand Donna Tartt's delicious irony.

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Saw a guy at the beach reading Ask the Dust, so maybe the novel isn’t quite dead yet.

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I'm reading Willa Cather's My Antonia for the first time, and I have to say this book has some of the most incredible, evocative descriptions I've ever read. https://t.co/2Uw5khBN0c

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@Greg_Gerke First thing that came to mind was The Last Samurai (the Helen DeWitt book not the Tom Cruise movie).

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Just finished reading Marguerite Duras’ The Lover—I loved the non-linear narrative, the way she shifts from first to third person, the intentional ambiguity of the pronouns in certain sections. Also there was a wonderful bitterness throughout the book, a sad, unromanticized tone.

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The Netanyahus was one of the funniest, sharpest novels I read last year--it's amazing that Joshua Cohen can go from something as sprawling and ambitious as Book of Numbers to something so dense and compact. A truly well-deserved award. https://t.co/XSVfpt5Tr5

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First book I finished this year was Blood Meridian, and it may be hard to top. Beyond the relentlessly dark vision of American history, I just absolutely loved the language. Amazing, baroque syntax mixed with clear, straightforward description, perfect balance and rhythm. https://t.co/coEvQH9Kg7

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Amazing @NewYorker article by @leorobsonwriter about the division in twentieth century American literature between more "formalist" writers and more "romantic" ones, as exemplified by John William's novel Stoner. https://t.co/pNwsl2a1ZR

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A novel like Halle Butler's The New Me or Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation: they're not exactly "ambitious" social novels, but they're obviously saying something about the world after 2008--the bleak, future-less existence that millennials are facing.