Caleb Crain Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Caleb Crain

“Despite, or perhaps because of, its virtues, the novel doesn’t hold the reader in its thrall. It meanders… It doesn’t seem to mind if you put it down.” @xtinesmallwood on Tao Lin's “Leave Society”: https://t.co/Lbq0C21O5s

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My review of Jack Lowery's "It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful," a thoughtful, cogent new history of the deployment of art in AIDS activism, published by @BoldTypeBooks, is in the print version of @nytimesbooks this weekend. https://t.co/qsXLDAUq01

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@ds228 @saradgore @Unwise_Trousers Takashi Hiraide's "The Guest Cat" has that nothing-is-really-happening-but-it's-riveting vibe. Tanizaki's "Some Prefer Nettles" does not, but I liked it a lot.

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RT @LAReviewofBooks: Christine Smallwood’s “The Life of the Mind” follows a listless Dorothy, an adjunct professor of writing, who is tryin…

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I reviewed Jack Lowery's "It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful," a new history from @BoldTypeBooks of the art collectives that worked with ACT UP, for @nytimesbooks. https://t.co/qsXLDAUq01

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A not-to-be-missed @playmobil video of the crucial scene in Barbara Comyns's "The Vet's Daughter," published by @nyrbclassics https://t.co/hH9myYBCPt

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RT @leorobsonwriter: Think you know all about Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas? Cracked The Making of Americans? @francescawade, author of…

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RT @PublicBooks: Louise Fitzhugh—author of Harriet the Spy—and James Merrill—the poet—were joined by friendship, craft, and graphomania: th…

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In her new novel, Rooney hasn’t quite found the right vessel for her vision, any more than her characters have found the ideal sociopolitical structure for channeling human connectedness.

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Tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7:30pm, hosted by @CommunityBkstr, I'll be talking with Donald Nicholson-Smith about his translation of Serge Pey's "Treasure of the Spanish Civil War," just out from @archipelagobks. Book: https://t.co/mMjFtgqzNt Event: https://t.co/PkaA6i9KS8