chris borrelli Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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beuatifully scandalizing... bought by Toni Morrison when she was a Random House editor...lost for 41 years ...There’s enough coke, orgies and power dynamics in this fearless party-girl novel to fuel canonization for decades.

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by crime writer S.A. Cosby, at the peak of his powers, nods quietly to “The Godfather,” though at times, it’s more ambitious...It’s rousing, queasy — and being adapted by Steven Spielberg and the Obamas for a Netflix series. (Read the book first.)

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Has there ever been a more Chicago novel? ...The title refers to Karyn Kupcinet, daughter of Chicago writer Irv Kupcinet. She was found dead in 1963. Orner starts there, then veers to conspiracy, Skokie, podcasts, the Cape Cod Room. It’s a blast.

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A genre-trip full of detours into history, folklore, memoir and art, moving state by state, told by a Chicago native determined to push past the archetypes of one region to get at the ways in which the entire country’s legacy of contradictions protects us from hard truths.

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Harrowing... finds suburban Chicago childhood as an ethereal, cultural testing ground for a student convinced his panic attacks are linked to Greek myth, and a vaguely menacing clubhouse called the Barn.

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[Mariah Blake] traces the unholy conspiracy between DuPont and the United States government to downplay the effects of indestructible chemicals...It‘s a small-town horror movie that also happens to be true.

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An allegorical satire of the ruling class in an African nation... documenting the cruelty of the old regime and the performative promises of the new one. The result is an epic that argues with laughter and a lot of anger for the boundlessness of storytelling.

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A big smile of a read. That academic title is a wink. Dylan selects more than 60 of his favorite songs then leaps into freewheeling history, lots of associative memories and, here and there, thoughts on songwriting and creativity and even a few subjects he has long avoided...

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Katherine Dunn, who died in 2016, leaving one bona fide cult classic (“Geek Love”), finished the previously unpublished “Toad” (Nov. 1) while tending bar in the ‘70s. It’s as melancholy as “Geek Love” was winsome, a tale of ‘60s campus life, from the vantage of regret.

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Vintage noir, with an air of “Heart of Darkness,” played at America’s Southern border, for all the racism and heartache that implies. What you’re not expecting is magic realism (and that bit of horror) paired to pitch-dark crime fiction about cyclical violence.

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