Dan Kois Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dan Kois

Eleanor Catton's new novel is great, surprising, and exciting, and totally different from THE LUMINARIES. @magiciansbook review: https://t.co/Dl7jr6nZP3

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Pure, wonderful wit and craft: LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER by Stewart O'Nan, FRENCH EXIT by Patrick deWitt, HARLEM SHUFFLE by Colson Whitehead

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I've never read so perfect a description of collegiate friendship as the scenes in Stay True in which Hsu recalls the long days and nights spent with his friends.

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Press release: Two new novels from Cormac McCarthy coming this fall from Knopf. THE PASSENGER 10/25; STELLA MARIS 11/22. He's 88!!

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Welcome to THE MARTIN CHRONICLES, a podcast about Martin Amis. Launched by @zinoman and me, joined for our debut episode by the great @parul_sehgal. Glitz! Ambition! Money! Teeth! We'll cover it all. https://t.co/ioHIUM4u3N https://t.co/yFdfAs9LE5

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Read a lot of SF/F this year. In addition to all the Le Guin, I particularly loved THE GATE TO WOMEN'S COUNTRY by Sheri Tepper, THE COLOR OF DISTANCE by Amy Thomson, and NOBODY'S SON by Sean Stewart

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Big literary news: Slate has discovered C.M. Lucca's 2005 interview about publishing BIOGRAPHY OF X. Crucial reading for fans of X, Bowie, Denis Johnson, Richard Cusk, the history of the Southern Territory: https://t.co/vIfp4s8nuf

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Our debut episode is about Martin Amis’ own debut, 1973’s The Rachel Papers, published when Amis was just 24. How did this sweaty teen sex grotesque, from the son of Britain’s most controversial novelist, launch a career? https://t.co/ZZIU4K4ioJ https://t.co/C8ivSle6nM

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The remarkable critic, novelist, and nonfiction writer Jonathan Raban died last week. BAD LAND and DRIVING HOME are great but I also learned so much from his first book SOFT CITY, a book that feels 50 years ahead of its time on city life https://t.co/OFH7lUegNo

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"I’ve come to see, over the course of my career, less wariness, less suspicion of the possibility that a novel can engage with the issues of the world." I interviewed Pulitzer winner Barbara Kingsolver this fall about DEMON COPPERHEAD: https://t.co/66t9ohFfsX