Chloe Schama Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Chloe Schama

We may be living in the era of the search engine, but if you want to get streamlined instructions on the basics, without scrolling past 500 ads and a narrative designed to keep you beholden to those ads, add this to your kitchen library.

Chloe Schama

A delectable, sun-washed treat... the stories have the beating heart of the city itself, a place of magnificent decay and vibrant, varied life.

Chloe Schama

Reissued with a sunny, jacket-less cover, it should be a staple of every kitchen.

Chloe Schama

There are books that assail you with their importance, and then there are those, like Allegra Goodman’s Sam (The Dial Press), whose modest-seeming ambitions blossom into sweeping works of emotional resonance.

Chloe Schama

Another tale of modern neuroses, told with bombastic appeal... Brodesser-Akner's sweep and verve is masterful; there are echoes of Philip Roth here in her examination of American Jewish identity, the promise of America, the thrill of reinvention, the prison of privilege.

Chloe Schama

Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry is so so good. https://t.co/bqHu2JsE7p

Chloe Schama

I haven’t read a funnier book this year, nor one that galloped along at such a perfect clip. Jonas is also a playwright, and her sense of pace and timing are refined. If you haven’t picked up the novel yet, do so now. You will not regret it.

Chloe Schama

In less capable hands, such rapid shifts might have a disorienting effect, but the book spins an entrancing web, the stories channeling the spirit of Mary Gaitskill and subtly building to reveal more and more about the town’s inhabitants.

Chloe Schama

This intricate portrait of a family of sisters is deeply nuanced and compelling, a family drama with intimate psychological portraits within it.

Chloe Schama

Flight is its own portrait of struggle and strife, and yet a smooth and utterly compelling read. Steger Strong has a raw and unflinching originality.