Charles Finch Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Charles Finch

Reading Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. What an incredibly good writer!

Charles 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

Charles Finch

Love Toni Morrison’s yearbook photo so much. Pure intelligence in those eyes. https://t.co/tEtEJPA2XP

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RT @bookcritics: NBCC member @hellermcalpin reviewed Elizabeth Strout's "Oh William!" for @NPR: https://t.co/3OzQeoUvWJ

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A career highlight from early in the year that I want to mention, too: being one of three judges for the 2020 Pen/Faulkner Award, won, out of the more than 300 works of fiction, by Deesha Philyaw's sublime collection "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies." https://t.co/0yi2W8JHdm

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Novelist 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.

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RT @stephycha: Please read, immediately, "City of Night" by John Rechy, a holy shit book and a beloved classic that still rarely gets its d…

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RT @jon_mcgregor: I have a new book coming out soon. It's called 'Lean Fall Stand' and it took me 17 years to write and I would be very ver…

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...All nine in this ultra-readable book contain pulses of wit and beauty, superb unexpected lines, sudden laughs.

Charles Finch

Jamison 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.