Daniel D'Addario Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“Ottessa Moshfegh! I hope you’re not expecting my girls to give you a night of rest and relaxation!” “Hi, Ru!” “Now, you’re known for grossing readers out… are you going to be rooting for the nastiest look tonight?” “I’ll let you know which way ‘Eileen’!”

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society if either the Brooklyn OR New York Public Libraries had the book I was hoping to reread in my convalescence (Tom Wolfe’s “A Man in Full”)… https://t.co/W2RM76MQUP

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Finished Marguerite Duras’s “The Lover” on the train into work… https://t.co/ZsaMtGPULC

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oops I violated this two days after tweeting it by reading half of Ann Quin's "Three" on my commute... https://twitter.com/DPD_/status/1498821071151239172

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Incorrect. The fourth Frank Bascobe novel being titled "Let Me Be Frank With You" is one of the funniest things ever. (I obviously haven't read the book) https://t.co/0nMMuVPpg3

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me when I went on vacation in China and brought Don DeLillo’s “Mao II” because I thought it was about Chinese history https://t.co/x2LQttMoVk

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Ottessa Moshfegh writing the last page of “Lapvona” https://t.co/jovAcnh6hn

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finished “The Palace Papers”… currently rereading the copy of “The Line of Beauty” that I gave the baby’s other dad… in 2008…

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It’s a challenge balancing parenting, marriage, my full-time job as a professional critic, and my passion project — acting as an unpaid and unsolicited publicist for Emma Cline’s forthcoming novel “The Guest.”

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The title “Open” worked as a clever double entendre — Andre Agassi played in the Open Era and was in a newly open era, ha ha. “Spare,” by the same ghostwriter, doesn’t meet that standard; the first meaning is clear but the writing is anything BUT spare. It’s extremely… adorned.