christopher bollen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

christopher bollen

Dan Fesperman, wielding a sharp eye for atmospheric detail and a finely tuned ear for comic relief, has proved to be one of the genre’s most exciting contemporary writers ... Deliciously fun ...

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Two novels are out this week for which I was lucky enough to be asked to give a quote. BOTH are exceptional and stomped all over my heart. LIE WITH ME by Philippe Besson and translated by… https://t.co/BGCpMBxHSu

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Murphy’s hard-boiled rendering of the city is nothing short of exquisite. It’s a landscape of reeking garbage, of salty rain sweeping off the ocean, of Midtown towers that look “ghostly like a mountain range,” ... few recent books have conjured [New York] so vividly.

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Just finished reading this wicked triumph by my dearest Ed White. The guru at his best: “I felt like I was watching a pornographic film directed by Caravaggio.” A Previous Life is out in January. @ Manhattan, New York https://www.instagram.com/p/CXWZdB3F8AB/?utm_medium=twitter

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In her radiant debut novel "Luster," the author teeters on transgression. Raven Leilani Wants to Write About Sex in a Way “That’s Ugly” https://t.co/IGSn7uLLSG via @Interview Magazine @RavenLeilani

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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ author Kevin Kwan on what to read next https://t.co/Ib4wmCQ9bk via @TODAYshow

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Congratulations to @knownemily on her debut novel The Lightness. Out now. https://t.co/cuumZFMDWm

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Five Unlikely Things that Inspired Jack Livings’s Debut Novel, <i>The Blizzard Party</i> https://t.co/AAGHp6UGEU via @Interview Magazine @jack_livings

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The poet and author has dug into his past and future with a raw, literary collection of essays titled How To Write An Autobiographical Novel. The time for queer lit is now: a conversation with Alexander Chee https://t.co/EYn8tWafwY via @Interview Magazine @alexanderchee