Christian TeBordo Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Christian TeBordo

read norm macdonald's 'based on a true story' this weekend. it's both hilarious and structurally more sophisticated than most contemporary novels. more writers should try to do that combination!

Christian TeBordo

@mikeayoung i'll tell you write now it is not thomas hardy, because the font in my copy of 'tess...' is too small. will need reading glasses for that one.

Christian TeBordo

read 'island city' by @Laura_Adamczyk this week, a beautifully-written account of a breaking/broken family and the death of a parent. but it also closes with the glorious, extended meditation on drinking alone in bars and riding a bike home that american lit needed.

Christian TeBordo

pretty sure juan martinez left this website, but you should still read his novel 'extended stay,' which is unlike anything i've read before, and is out today. https://t.co/hDEo9X0qMI

Christian TeBordo

gave in and started reading my last dag solstad ('armand v.'). been allowing myself 30 pages a day, but my supplies will run out tomorrow. somebody needs to translate more quickly.

Christian TeBordo

nabokov's 'picnic, lightning' is probably still the best parenthetical ever, but saul bellow really gave it everything he had in 'mr. sammler's planet.' https://t.co/dZqXqgwQV7

Christian TeBordo

just finished 'the anomaly' by herve le tellier. the only positive i took from it is that american writers don't have a monopoly on corniness and self-flattery.

Christian TeBordo

i never hear anyone talk about william kennedy, but i just finished 'ironweed,' which i only picked up cuz it's set where i'm from, and it's fucking rad, like 'dubliners'-era joyce with faulknerian spurts of violence.

Christian TeBordo

i like the way william kennedy thinks. (from 'legs') https://t.co/78FyCyO2BF