Alan Scherstuhl Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alan Scherstuhl

@parabasis Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice

Alan Scherstuhl

Elaine Dundy's "The Old Man and Me" is the first novel I've ever read whose author dishes in the introduction what Miles Davis said about it

Alan Scherstuhl

The novel's imaginative sweep connects the ages of papyrus, pulp fiction and 20th-century epic potboilers such as Leon Uris's Exodus. As survival fiction, the first chapters of The Ancients measure up to the work of Jack London and other greats of the genre.

Alan Scherstuhl

What a joy for English readers to at last meet this humanist provocateur who celebrates and memorializes queer lives in a fascist state with fire, love, and a tireless spirit of play.

Alan Scherstuhl

I have a habit of starting thrillers then abandoning them after 50 pages for being silly, but Chris Pavone’s “Two Nights in Lisbon” seized me by the throat 5 pages in and I’m annoyed whenever I’m not reading it https://t.co/9VFC2rznYh

Alan Scherstuhl

I’m knocked out by Ousmane K. Power-Greene’s “The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” a smart, unsettling, tense-as-hell novel about a Black professor of philosophy’s life, work, history—and her shocking encounter with the white supremacists stalking her https://t.co/Sdn0YkkvgS