David Beard Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@jswatz @Shteyngart Just belatedly finished "A Gentleman in Moscow" ahead of "The Lincoln Highway." Same. Maybe you try "Lake Success" or "Super Sad True Love Story"?

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@pamelacolloff My son, in high school, got to interview the writer Adam Hochschild by phone about early abolitionists and the writer’s book “Bury The Chains.” Hochschild was gracious with his time, and it meant the world to my son.

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“We were poor but we had love/That’s the one thing Daddy made sure of/He shoveled coal to make a poor man’s dollar" — Loretta Lynn, "Coal Miner's Daughter" https://t.co/ymhqdjEIHY #RIP

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@k8marsh Also recommended: Richard Powers' "The Overstory" and his more recent, "Bewilderment," where the love of nature just pours through.

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The generation closer to these experiences clearly were dealing with a traumatic memory, and they didn’t want to rehearse that memory. Toni Morrison has this line in her book ‘Beloved’ where she says ‘This is not a story to pass down.’..They didn’t want to pass down that trauma.”

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“You could tell he was a regular from the way that everyone ignored him.” - Amor Towles, “The Lincoln Highway” — Review: https://t.co/GGO7KHJHLt

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“We are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem…to be part of the problem is to be human.” -Anthony Doerr, “Cloud Cuckoo Land” cc: @Sulliview

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We know that if you don’t talk about domestic violence or alcoholism, it just gets worse. Imagine a nation trying to squash talk about its own peculiar, virulent disease. Via “Caste,” by Isabel Wilkerson https://t.co/kkY6gfCc2f

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It was McCracken’s guitar on Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Hey 19” by Steely Dan, “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” by Paul Simon and “If I Ain’t Got You” by Alicia Keys.

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"He thinks we are free to become our true selves, that we are free to love as we choose. A mindset so UnitedStatesian, you could serve it with ketchup" — Andrew Sean Greer, from "Less Is Lost."

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