Dan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dan

@giles_goatboy Amanda Ackerman's The Book of Feral Flora. so weird, so good.

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@shyascanlon varying degrees/causes here, but some favorites that deal with isolation: Marlen Haushofer, The Wall; Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond; Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room; Renee Gladman, Event Factory; Sara Baume's Seven Steeples & Spill Simmer Falter Wither; later David Markson

Dan

@xlorentzen wouldn’t call it “pandemic fiction” but Sara Baume weaves in the pandemic near the end of Seven Steeples.

Dan

@shyascanlon varying degrees/causes here, but some favorites that deal with isolation: Marlen Haushofer, The Wall; Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond; Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room; Renee Gladman, Event Factory; Sara Baume's Seven Steeples & Spill Simmer Falter Wither; later David Markson

Dan

@shyascanlon varying degrees/causes here, but some favorites that deal with isolation: Marlen Haushofer, The Wall; Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond; Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room; Renee Gladman, Event Factory; Sara Baume's Seven Steeples & Spill Simmer Falter Wither; later David Markson

Dan

@eileen__sperry There are a few good essays on this (including one by @PatriciaDunn1) in Bad Ideas About Writing + a brief section toward the end of John Warner’s Why They Can’t Write.

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@fromthespanish Gwendoline Riley’s First Love

Dan

@shyascanlon varying degrees/causes here, but some favorites that deal with isolation: Marlen Haushofer, The Wall; Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond; Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room; Renee Gladman, Event Factory; Sara Baume's Seven Steeples & Spill Simmer Falter Wither; later David Markson

Dan

@shyascanlon varying degrees/causes here, but some favorites that deal with isolation: Marlen Haushofer, The Wall; Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond; Xavier de Maistre, Voyage Around My Room; Renee Gladman, Event Factory; Sara Baume's Seven Steeples & Spill Simmer Falter Wither; later David Markson