Alexandra Jacobs Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alexandra Jacobs

I laughed, I cried... I love Molly Shannon... It's an amazing story of human resilience and familial resilience really.

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Tillman writes for grown-ups, but the kind who are constantly tending to their inner children... In an era of truncated attention spans, her short stories, some verging on micro, seem newly with-it. Her one-liners can do more than certain entire volumes.

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Alexandra Jacobs

I disagreed with plenty in Claire Dederer’s latest book, and that’s precisely why I liked it. A book that engenders argument and discussion and makes you feel FREAKING ALIVE in these numbskull times is rare indeed.

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It’s a short book — just over 200 pages — but with big themes, like the precarity of love, and how the modern self is forged less in community than mass consumption.

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“Tom Lake” is a quiet and reassuring book, not a rabble-rouser… Domestic contentment is its North Star, generational continuity its reliable moon. Only a cynic could resist lying down on a nice soft blanket to marvel at Patchett’s twinkling planetarium.

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Modern art can baffle and intimidate. Keith Haring strove to democratize it...Gooch’s book insists readers slow down and consider the artist’s legacy. And its cover feels like a secret handshake, done in the colors of an old-fashioned New York City taxicab.

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Lots of books by and about women will be released in March, and this one doesn’t rankly smell, not remotely. Its bouquet is carefully gathered, wide-ranging, inoffensive, in a field that could actually use some stink bombs.

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... an intensely magnetic chronicle in which ambitions and emotions run as red-hot as they did in the Facebook movie written by Aaron Sorkin ... It helps that PayPal’s origin story, though essentially an ensemble piece, features two of the more complicated antiheroes of our time.

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A new biography of Glyn, “Inventing the It Girl,” by Hilary A. Hallett, restores her [Glyn] to the pantheon of history with great thoughtfulness and taste…Though there are moments in “Inventing the It Girl” that are florid and over-rounded, this tone suits the topic.

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Utterly fascinating. . . . Notes to John shares with Blue Nights the subject of mother and daughter, generational trauma and general anxiety, and both are written with Didion's constitutional meticulousness.

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