Chris Bohjalian Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Chris Bohjalian

Tonight’s Negroni is made with plum gin. I raise my glass to all of you this Saturday night and to Michael Ondaatje, who used the plum to great effect in his masterpiece, The English Patient (a novel beloved by everyone and a movie beloved by everyone except Elaine Benes). https://t.co/Zw0iw2jIJV

Chris Bohjalian

Happiest of pub days to the brilliant @donwinslow! Utterly thrilled that today CITY OF DREAMS arrives. If you haven't yet discovered Don, grab his new novel and -- like me -- you'll read every word he writes.

Chris Bohjalian

Savoring I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME by Lorrie Moore and a galley of LEARNED BY HEART by Emma Donoghue. #FridayReads @AAKnopf @littlebrown https://t.co/J0wmHKGXYw

Chris Bohjalian

Really enjoyed Lawrence Osborne’s new novel, ON JAVA ROAD, and the chance to delve deeply into his work for @nytimesbooks. https://t.co/kTfPpqxNSu https://t.co/xud8nnYQmr

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Lots of #FridayReads, and loving them all. About to finish THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF RUDOLF DIESEL by @DougBrunt (preorder it); CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (out now); and THE VERMONT BRIGADE IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY by Aldace Walker. @PantheonBooks @AtriaBooks

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“God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.” — Ralph Ellison ‘Tis #Juneteenth! https://t.co/on9BuxPeE5

Chris Bohjalian

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.” ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life. This was the face I woke up to this morning. Happy Monday. We got this! https://t.co/YuI7pYpgtb

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Reading (and, alas, about to finish) SMALL MERCIES by @dennis_lehane; THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF RUDOLF DIESEL by @DougBrunt; and THE VERMONT BRIGADE IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY by Aldace Walker. Loving them all. #FridayReads

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In other news, the “talking corpse” in this novel should have a @netflix standup special. Lorrie Moore is as insightful and moving as ever…and she writes great material for the dead.

Chris Bohjalian

Hoping you all are reading some of my favorite books of the season: MARRYING THE KETCHUPS by @jenniferclose; THE CANDY HOUSE by @Egangoonsquad; TAKE MY HAND by @Dolen; I'LL BE YOU by @janelleb; and (now in paperback) NORTHERN SPY by @flynnberry_.