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Constance Grady Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Constance Grady is a culture writer. Culture writer for @voxdotcom. Bylines at The Toast and the A.V. Club. Not the Ugly Betty character. constance.grady@vox.com.

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Book Cover for: The Bedwetter, Sarah Silverman

The Bedwetter

Sarah Silverman
Constance GradyConstance Grady

At the Bedwetter, the project Adam Schlesinger was working on before his death by COVID, in partnership with Sarah Silverman. Deeply sweet and charming. https://t.co/76OWpSTkJe

Paperback, 2011

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Book Cover for: Either/Or, Elif Batuman

Either/Or

Elif Batuman
Constance GradyConstance Grady

Either/Or is a deeply interior novel... Batuman is an expert at defamiliarizing ideas that have become so normal to us we can no longer see them clearly... In her hands, the polite absurdities of everyday life become huge, perplexing, and very funny.

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club, Celeste Ng

Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club

Celeste Ng
Constance GradyConstance Grady

I thought Our Missing Hearts got too didactic for its own good at times, but no one writes about parenthood as beautifully as Celeste Ng. https://t.co/FBypfWR859

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: You Dreamed of Empires, Álvaro Enrigue

You Dreamed of Empires

Álvaro Enrigue
Constance GradyConstance Grady

This is an absolute wonder of a new novel... It takes place over the course of a single day in 1519, when the Spanish conquistador Cortés arrives at the imperial palace of Moctezuma in what is now Mexico City... We know how history ends — but in Enrigue’s playful, hallucinatory prose, it feels entirely possible for things to go in different directions.

Hardcover, 2024

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: East India Company: The World's Most Powerful Corporation, Tirthankar Roy

East India Company: The World's Most Powerful Corporation

Tirthankar Roy
Constance GradyConstance Grady

Book club discussion post! We are talking East India Company, technocapitalism, and the excellent IMMORTAL KING RAO! Come hang! https://www.vox.com/culture/23171264/immortal-king-rao-review-vauhini-vara?utm_campaign=constancegrady&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Paperback, 2016

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Book Cover for: The Sentence, Louise Erdrich

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich
Constance GradyConstance Grady

We're getting our first Pulitzer Prize winner at the Vox Book Club! This February we're reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, aka the only pandemic novel so far that I have been able to stand. https://www.vox.com/culture/22901535/the-sentence-louise-erdrich-vox-book-club

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara
Constance GradyConstance Grady

Hello, I did not like To Paradise and I did not like A Little Life either! I spent a long, long time trying to work out what they were doing and why it bugged me, and here’s what I got. https://www.vox.com/culture/22884073/to-paradise-review-hanya-yanagihara-a-little-life?utm_campaign=constancegrady&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Paperback, 2016

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Book Cover for: The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy
Constance GradyConstance Grady

Sometimes I think the reason literary criticism got obsessed with evaluating prose as “sentences” over the past few decades is simply that McCarthy’s are so good. They rattle out at you like little bullets, mean and punchy and precise.

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Intermezzo, Sally Rooney

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney
Constance GradyConstance Grady

Intermezzo is exquisite... It's as tender and lovely as you could ask for, and beneath the elegant rise and fall of Rooney's oceanic sentences, the waters go deep.

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton
Constance GradyConstance Grady

Bleak, lonely, and with a boldly graphic line ... Beaton’s figures are rendered in scrunchy, expressive lines...vividly expressive ... The imagery here is richer and more cutting than the imagery of Hark! A Vagrant, more suited to this lengthy, ambitious memoir ... Devastating.

Hardcover, 2022

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book