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Daniel D'Addario Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Daniel D'Addario is Variety's chief TV critic. chief correspondent at Variety, dad in Brooklyn

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Book Cover for: Samantha, Malania E. Reynolds

Samantha

Malania E. Reynolds
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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!

Paperback, 2017

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Three

Ann Quin
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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

Paperback, 2005

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Book Cover for: I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe

I Am Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe
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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”

Paperback, 2005

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Book Cover for: Mao II, Don Delillo

Mao II

Don Delillo
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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

Paperback, 1992

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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil

Tina Brown
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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…

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen

Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen
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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

Paperback, 2022

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The Woman Upstairs

Claire Messud
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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]

Paperback, 2014

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Book Cover for: The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell
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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!

Paperback, 2015

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Book Cover for: Open: An Autobiography, Andre Agassi

Open: An Autobiography

Andre Agassi
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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.

Paperback, 2010

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Margaret

Kenneth Lonergan
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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!"

Paperback, 2014

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