Amitava Kumar Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Amitava Kumar

In her convo with @laurenoyler the other night, @EmilyGould described Fake Accounts as a "n +1 novel." I think I know what that means but is there a piece I can read which discusses such books as a literary subgenre? cc: @cdharbach, @BananaKarenina, @keithgessen

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Debates on Asian American identity, music, and culture are unpacked in a language so limpid and pure that thought becomes pure feeling.

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This is the great ⁦@lawrence_wright⁩ striking a Brando-like pose in The Godfather. My journalism class ⁦@Vassar⁩ discussed “The Plague Year.” Thank you, Larry, for making time to visit us by Zoom! https://t.co/u095y149r3

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Any review that starts with my eggs of love drawing is a good review. (The phrase "eggs of love" is from Rushdie's travelogue The Jaguar Smile. The book captures perfectly a moment in time.) https://twitter.com/jilpanz/status/1509793082132221952

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Have you read Toni Morrison’s Recitatif, the only short story she published, in the new edition with the introduction by Zadie Smith? <🧵> https://t.co/kkvM8CtLOQ

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Annie Ernaux as our new Nobel is a great choice. “The neutral way of writing comes to me naturally. It was the same style I used when I wrote home telling my parents the latest news” from A Man’s Place, has been a great inspiration to me. https://t.co/LrpiuoTHDl

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From a galley copy of Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes, out from FSG in April, 2023. Part-memoir, part-meditation, this is a extraordinary collection. A search for beauty, as an anti-racist practice, means you look also at the brutality. Pre-order here: https://t.co/FGEeJOiadJ https://t.co/FWvXaFzPuN

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Ayad Akhtar's new novel, Homeland Elegies, is one of the most important books of our times. I'll be in conversation with Ayad tomorrow. Register here to be a part of it: https://t.co/0e6J2iLwDk

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After In Cold Blood, I thought the idea was to report as if it were a novel. But Janet Malcolm, whom I revere, introduces a subtlety. In The Silent Woman, there is an important qualifier: “bad novels.” Any thoughts, ⁦@praddenkeefe⁩ and ⁦@DavidGrann⁩? https://t.co/TljXKxOpBc

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Happy birthday, John Williams. I wonder what Professor Stoner would have made of #TheChair. https://t.co/a835QMueaO

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