Brian Trapp Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Brian Trapp

@cteicher Akhil Sharma's Family Life and Lila Savage's Yes Yes Yes, though both can be a little too dark. For memoir: @heatherklanier's Raising a Rare Girl, @LeoneMarianne's Jesse, and Chris Gabbard's A Life Beyond Reason. From a disabled author, there is Clay Byars’s Will and I.

Brian Trapp

Happy to have reconsideration of Stanley Elkin's The Magic Kingdom in the @CincinnReview. It's for a special section on books about hope. Sure, there's a lot of weird masturbation and off-color jokes, but the novel is really a celebration of disabled joy. https://t.co/7vQGBSt1jl

Brian Trapp

@mmschwartz Tom Drury's The Black Brook. Chris Bachelder's Bear v. Shark or U.S.! or The Throwback. Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows. Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown. I also thought Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy was pretty funny.

Brian Trapp

@mmschwartz Tom Drury's The Black Brook. Chris Bachelder's Bear v. Shark or U.S.! or The Throwback. Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows. Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown. I also thought Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy was pretty funny.

Brian Trapp

I am very much enjoying @elmckenzie1's The Portable Veblen and its talking squirrels. Haven't done the weird air-escaping-from-nose-laugh-while-reading as much for a book in quite awhile. https://t.co/w3v4j2TkkH

Brian Trapp

@mmschwartz Tom Drury's The Black Brook. Chris Bachelder's Bear v. Shark or U.S.! or The Throwback. Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows. Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown. I also thought Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy was pretty funny.

Brian Trapp

Finished The Last Taxi Driver by @lee_durkee, out from @Tin_House. Great comic voice full of rage, sorrow and fever dream wisdom. The taxi is wonderful vessel for picaresque adventures, which includes meth heads, possessed possums, and Red Bull-inspired hallucinations. Recommend.

Brian Trapp

@cteicher Akhil Sharma's Family Life and Lila Savage's Yes Yes Yes, though both can be a little too dark. For memoir: @heatherklanier's Raising a Rare Girl, @LeoneMarianne's Jesse, and Chris Gabbard's A Life Beyond Reason. From a disabled author, there is Clay Byars’s Will and I.

Brian Trapp

Just finished @livrstrat's great novel Cheat Day. Funny and moving and weird and a little salacious. People should read it. Liv and I were grad students together way back when. It's great to see talented writers fulfill their potential. https://t.co/memr5PHa3u

Brian Trapp

@mmschwartz Tom Drury's The Black Brook. Chris Bachelder's Bear v. Shark or U.S.! or The Throwback. Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows. Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown. I also thought Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy was pretty funny.