Damon Young Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Sunday reading: DRACULA, by Bram Stoker. In which *the* vampire voyages to London and makes mischief. https://t.co/FlKlVgPFLG

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I’m waiting for someone to tell me Stoics shouldn’t care about attributing quotes properly. They seek freedom from others’ opinions. Marcus Aurelius devoted the first part of his Meditations to recognising what he got from others. Ryan Holiday can do that too. It’s okay.

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Sunday reading: STONER, by John Williams. I always knew I’d read this eventually. How could I not? I didn’t realise how carefully I’d be vivisected by it. https://t.co/X1tJc4yjaf

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One stereotype of literary professionals is that we’re all jaded; all wearied by word after word. But listen to the sheer nerd verve of @dongwon talking about Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” here: https://t.co/Zv5SztjQgr This is why we get into the business.

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Sunday reading: SILVERVIEW, by the late John le Carré. A short, meticulous tale of a young bookseller named Julian who’s used by an old spy, Edward Avon. https://t.co/S48wBvtflJ

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Wednesday night reading: GOETHE DIES, by Thomas Bernhard. https://t.co/p39SFjWdIo

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On poets: ’it takes more than audacity of mind to free us from banality… the poet triumphs over routines or imposes his thought upon words by efforts quite as long and persevering as those of my work of emperor.’ Marguerite Yourcenar, MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN

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RT @DrLucyWhitehead: That thing where you’re Charles Dickens, and you inscribe a copy of ‘A Christmas Carol’ to your friend Thomas Carlyle…

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Sunday reading: THE NAME OF THE ROSE, by Umberto Eco. It’s even better on the second reading. Erudite, obviously. Intelligent. But also deeply humane and morally sophisticated.https://t.co/mTp62xGhnM

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@frippet I don't think this is the kind of book you're after, but Octavia Butler's KINDRED uses something weird as its premise. But the most unsettling, unpleasant stuff is just life in the nineteenth century, not the supernatural.