Adrienne LaFrance Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Adrienne LaFrance

"The surest poison is time. This cup, which Nature puts to our lips... opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science..." Ralph Waldo Emerson writing in The Atlantic in 1862: https://t.co/RZyCuVgccw

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A beautiful @matthewspecktor review of Mark Rozzo's new book, which I now want to read. "The triumph of Rozzo’s book is that one ultimately feels this sense of possibility at its full extension... all this potential before it evaporates..."

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@JVenook I need to reread it! (And this is me with Natalie Babbitt. I reread Search for Delicious and Tuck Everlasting over and over; they only get better.)

Adrienne LaFrance

"The surest poison is time. This cup, which Nature puts to our lips... opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science..." Ralph Waldo Emerson writing in The Atlantic in 1862: https://t.co/RZyCuVgccw

Adrienne LaFrance

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle contains some of the most memorable meals in all of literature. In a novel that is all surreality, darkness, and rabbit holes, Murakami’s simple descriptions of sustenance have an almost metronomic quality—the only thing anchoring the story to reality.

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A brilliant, beautiful essay about Osamu Dazai by the great @janewhykim: https://t.co/hNtWNoFvht

Adrienne LaFrance

"The surest poison is time. This cup, which Nature puts to our lips... opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science..." Ralph Waldo Emerson writing in The Atlantic in 1862: https://t.co/RZyCuVgccw

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"Like a new-age George Eliot, Egan steps in to anoint this revelation with an authorial apothegm: 'Only Gregory Bouton’s machine—this one, fiction—lets us roam with absolute freedom through the human collective.'" https://t.co/AvoQUeIcom

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Adrienne LaFrance shares her favorite descriptions of food in literature: "The madeleine in Swann's Way is so indelible, that, I will confess, I avoid eating them entirely, because a real madeleine would only ruin my memory of the memory described by Proust."

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Semi-niche tweet: I just realized Lynn Cohen and Jerry Adler (from “Manhattan Murder Mystery”) play the parents of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character in “Synechdoche,” and I need to know whose idea it was to cast them. (Because it is perfect.)