Charles Finch Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Charles Finch is an author and literary critic. Novelist and literary critic. Most recent books: "What Just Happened" (Knopf 2021) and "An Extravagant Death" (Minotaur 2021). 2017 Balakian winner. He/him.
Three Californias: The Wild Shore, the Gold Coast, and Pacific Edge
Kim Stanley RobinsonCharles FinchHis landmark trilogy sketches three possible outcomes for Orange County, one dystopian, one utopian and one in between... Yet his gift is to remain a romantic: in love with the ragged California coast, which... twists up and away into natural beauty, beyond our true dominion.
Paperback, 2020
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Three Women
Lisa TaddeoCharles FinchReading Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. What an incredibly good writer!
Paperback, 2020
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The Bluest Eye
Toni MorrisonCharles FinchRT @toni_project: Did you know that bell hooks wrote her dissertation on Toni Morrison's first two novels, The Bluest Eye and Sula? Rest i…
Paperback, 2007
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Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Jody RosenCharles Finch“Two Wheels Good” takes the form of bricolage, blending meticulous historical research, local reporting from bicycle-dependent locales like Bhutan and Bangladesh and personal memories of riding in New York and Boston... the book excels across all of them
Paperback, 2023
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes
Joshua FerrisCharles FinchRT @michaelschaub: Joshua Ferris' "A Calling for Charlie Barnes" is a weird, brilliant piece of metafiction. I wrote about it for NPR: http…
Paperback, 2022
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Oh William!
Elizabeth StroutCharles FinchRT @bookcritics: NBCC member @hellermcalpin reviewed Elizabeth Strout's "Oh William!" for @NPR: https://t.co/3OzQeoUvWJ
Paperback, 2022
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Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki MurakamiCharles FinchNovelist as a Vocation... blends writing advice and memoir, tracking [Murakami's] early triumphs through his years as an international star... The result is a book that’s assured, candid and often deeply irritating.
Paperback, 2023
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Vladimir
Julia May JonasCharles FinchI really loved the smart, spooky Vladimir by Julia May Jonas, out today - shades (to me) of Muriel Spark, Ottessa Moshfegh, JM Coetzee. Another winner from @desideratasaur. https://t.co/xhOmo7xWfT
Paperback, 2023
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Liberation Day: Stories
George SaundersCharles Finch...All nine in this ultra-readable book contain pulses of wit and beauty, superb unexpected lines, sudden laughs.
Paperback, 2023
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
Leslie JamisonCharles FinchJamison and her peers are something much subtler: writers investigating womanhood as a category in the world, a way of being perceived, a set of challenges and fears. In part, the subject of this beautiful, bittersweet memoir is the pressure of that task.
Hardcover, 2024
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