Daniel M. Lavery Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Daniel M. Lavery

I don't know if you can do anything with this information, but Algernon Blackwood's horror classic "The Willows" and Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" have pretty much the same plot: https://t.co/1kd6juBhAL

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"After Les Fleurs du mal I told Baudelaire it only remains for you to choose between the muzzle of the pistol and the foot of the Cross" = "transition bitch"

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time for my annual circuit to convince all of my friends to read Frans G. Bengtsson's The Long Ships (read Frans G. Bengtsson's The Long Ships)

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an archaeologist in 100 years will have as much to say about your bones as Samuel Pepys had to say in 1662 about where you went to college 350 years later

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"I belong in Dinotopia, where my second-place finish at the district spelling bee will finally be appreciated by true lovers of knowledge" is a very dear kind of gay childhood pathology 2 me https://www.thechatner.com/p/how-to-figure-out-youre-gay-or-something

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I'm in Lapham's Quarterly today, talking about MFK Fisher's unexpected, unsettling encounters with trans men in her 1943 memoir "The Gastronomical Me." Wild stuff! https://twitter.com/j_fuller/status/1498324668197052418

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I will always love Margaret Visser but I do not always understand where she’s going (from Much Depends on Dinner) https://t.co/TPWXizUDqG

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on the plus side I picked up a copy of Nora Ephron's Heartburn and boy do women in New York like to talk to you when you're carrying that book around. That was really great

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this is a long shot but a while ago I lent my copy of Mary Meigs' In the Company of Strangers to someone and I can't remember who. if it was you lmk

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the Chris Pine book interview was delightful but allow me to offer an alternative recommendation for getting into Le Carré (especially if like me you previously hadn’t read much spy fiction): A MURDER OF QUALITY first then THE PERFECT SPY