Charles McNulty 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 McNulty is the theater critic for the Los Angeles Times. LA Times Theater Critic. Former Village Voice theater editor, Obie chairman and director of Brooklyn College's grad dramaturgy program. http://t.co/gJrDWoNykq
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Joan DidionCharles McNultyJoan Didion's intersections with theater were rare but eventful. Here's my review of David Hare's adaptation of "The Year of Magical Thinking," starring Vanessa Redgrave. https://t.co/r7PdqEjudB
Paperback, 2007
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I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir
Harvey FiersteinCharles McNultyThe one and only Harvey Fierstein has written a memoir that is often bracing in its candor He's a complicated character with a fascinating history that includes a long apprenticeship in underground theater off-off-Broadway. Here's my review: https://t.co/l4Vep9BCbt @latimes
Hardcover, 2022
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Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
Mary RodgersCharles McNultyI sincerely hope that someone adapts to the stage "Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers." The book has the same naughty vivacity of "At Liberty," Elaine Stritch's collaboration with John Lahr. Rodgers and Jesse Green work the same magic.
Paperback, 2023
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The Age of Innocence
Edith WhartonCharles McNultyI read plenty of new fiction this year, but these books made the biggest impression on me: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Persuasion, James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Philip Roth's Patrimony, Muriel Spark's The Girls of Slender Means.
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Daniel Deronda
George EliotCharles McNulty"No, said the Princess, shaking her head, and folding her arms with an air of decision. "You are not a woman. You may try - by you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl."-- George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"
Paperback, 1996
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Mansfield Park
Jane AustenCharles McNultyRT @CharlesMcNulty: I read plenty of new fiction this year, but these books made the biggest impression on me: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park…
Hardcover, 2019
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Operation Shylock: A Confession (PEN/Faulkner Award)
Philip RothCharles McNulty@dantherriault This is a reassuring tweet -- that no writer is ever finished or satisfied, even someone as great as Philip Roth. Just started "Operation Shylock" two days ago, one of his book I've put off, fearing (stupidly) that the conceit of the double might be gimmicky. Fascinating so far.
Paperback, 1994
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Paradise Blue
Dominique MorisseauCharles McNultyReview: Suspenseful noir and Detroit history converge in Dominique Morisseau's 'Paradise Blue' https://t.co/na7ZhlYbeV
Paperback, 2019
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August Wilson: A Life
Patti HartiganCharles McNultyWilson’s artistic story, throbbing with the ancestral memory Wilson felt in his blood, is profoundly inspiring in Hartigan’s magnificent rendering…Hartigan brings a sharp critical perspective to bear that keeps “August Wilson: A Life” from crossing over into hagiography.
Hardcover, 2023
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyCharles McNultyI'm reading Sally Rooney's "Beautiful World, Where Are You," and I find there's an unremarked irony in that a novel so critical of the techno-media moment is written in such internet-friendly prose.
Paperback, 2022
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