Charlotte Mandell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Charlotte Mandell

"I am not stupid because whenever I think I am, I deny myself— I kill myself." Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste

Charlotte Mandell

@dedreytnien Also, this isn't really a mystery (though in a weird way it sort of is), but I think you might like Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday.

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@Artssoy They are! In fact, a German translator and friend came out with a book of translations just of some of Robert's door poems.

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Mathias Énard is also a Lovecraft fan: he told me the first time he experienced genuine fear was when he read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward at the age of 14 in an old house his father rented near a swamp...

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"Fitzcarraldo’s first book, Mathias Énard’s Zone, was a mission statement of sorts, Testard said. That 521-page novel, a stream of consciousness told in a single sentence, was “intensely gripping” despite its challenging appearance, Testard said." I ❤️Fitzcarraldo 🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/7Y0C1XtzoU

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Many wonderful poetry recordings here at Bard's digital archives, with readings by Paul Blacburn, Cid Corman, Diane di Prima, Robert Creeley, Robert Kelly, and many more: https://t.co/GsSV8mhper

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@dedreytnien Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Toni Hillerman (set in Navajo land), Chesterton's Father Brown series, Rex Stout, John Dickson Carr aka Carter Dickson, Conan Doyle, Margery Allingham, Josephine Tey, Michael Innes... Dorothy Sayers is so good, very erudite.

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@MjTurner_ and there's a lovely passage from John dos Passos' book on the Orient Express. The podcast is in 4 parts, I think --- next episode is on the wagons-lits (sleeping cars)

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"Like everything on this earth, plants want to speak to us, but understanding their language requires a clear mind." Ernst Jünger, On the Marble Cliffs, in a wonderful new translation by Tess Lewis @tesslewis94 , published by @nyrbclassics

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Such a great writer-- his Dark Back of Time, beautifully translated by @estherlallen and published by @NewDirections , is one of my favorite books of his https://t.co/vDhaSt9Q9H