Daniel D'Addario Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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CARRIE V/O: And while Miranda felt like an antiquity, I was getting a front-row seat to the decline and fall of the Roman empire. SAMANTHA: Ladies, meet my new client! ALISON: hi 😉 SAMANTHA: I just booked her a New Yorker profile!

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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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Little Mix’s “Power,” which is playing in some horrible Cruella compilation video my toddler is currently watching, is a real-world version of the fake songs Tom Wolfe wrote to show that Dupont University was an anti-intellectual place in “I Am Charlotte Simmons”

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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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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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But how many of these stores have Jonathan Franzen’s “Crossroads” in stock? The answer is likely not very beautiful at all… https://t.co/yTXUSr2g2p

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“Claire Messud! Are you ready to meet *this* empress’s children?” “Hi, Ru!” “Who better to decide which girl is on the highest level than the woman upstairs?” [all laugh]

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“The Bone Clocks” should have been the final David Mitchell novel to deal with the time-sucking vampires megaplotline. [bangs gavel] Court adjourned!

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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.

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"She's gave birth to Margaret Qualley, and he gave the world one high-quality 'Margaret'! Ladies and gentlemen, Andie MacDowell and Kenneth Lonergan!"