Brandon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Also I know I always say her, but Ann Petry's The Street is like. Also an incredible novel that is at once Woolfian and Tolstoyan and utterly American in its idiom and it is a perfect book and I think of it OFTEN.

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Excuse me, how do I get a copy of Brian Dillon's Affinities. I need it. For reasons. The reasons are that I want to read it. A lot. Lol.

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Things are getting VERY Aysegül Savas-y/Katie Kitamura-y in this draft. White on White/ Intimacies Hive, let's GOOOOO. https://t.co/OT59lkMROp

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Two separate things I have woken up in the middle of the night to check for my presentation of my novel in progress today: 1. The critical reputation of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening in the 1960s, lol. 2. The status of the disposable coffee cup in 1967, lol.

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An honor to have gotten to write the foreword to one of my favorite novels for @penguinclassics. In addition, this special edition has James’s brilliant essay on the writing of fiction. 🥹 so happy

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Ann Patchett’s new novel so far is…precisely the book I hoped it would be. Shades of Commonwealth. She’s so back.

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My very very very favorite book this year was ALL THAT GLITTERS by Orlando Whitfield. That book is astonishing. Brilliant. Funny. Deeply felt. Everyone should go read it immediately.

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Am I really at an age where Mansfield Park goes from being Jane Austen’s annoying novel to one I really like? Much to consider.

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I found the novel’s defensiveness about the moral dubiousness of its aesthetic project kind of charming, but also frustrating. Yet, for all that, it is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.

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Five years later, they tried to give Sinclair Lewis the Pulitzer for Arrowsmith and he said, NO THANKS. And then when he won the Nobel Prize, the Nobel committee was like, "To be honest, this is mostly just because we love Main Street." dskhjdlaskhdas