Dexter Palmer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Read Harold Bloom's afterword to the new edition of John Crowley's *Little, Big* this morning and it's smart and entertaining, though I think Bloom is a better read if you realize, or decide, that he's performing "Harold Bloom" for comic effect

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Edmund Morris's Theodore Rex, probably https://t.co/RFVXoLhkXh

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I was on a road trip the last couple of days and listened to the Killers of the Flower Moon audiobook while driving—really looking forward to the film now but there's probably an advantage to going in blind and not even reading reviews

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The novel is carefully structured, sharply observed and often humorous. Brewer has an understated, melodious style with a confident control of rhythm; one highlight is a description of a cross-country trip in a single two-page sentence.

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@timothyraubry I think Harold Cruse is in this territory in The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, but he's a tricky critic to interpret (for what it's worth, Christopher Lasch spoke approvingly of that book)

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This rich, endlessly engaging novel is, one hopes, the first in a long career for an author who has the talent and imagination to write whatever she wants.

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Writer's/publisher's nightmare: Garrett Graff writes an 800-page book on Watergate, it gets great reviews, then the print run for the hardcover has a binding problem (this is my copy after 50 pages of gentle reading; Amazon has dozens of complaints) https://t.co/PveyHsO3JU

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Something I thought would never happen: Leon Forrest's Divine Days is coming back into print. https://t.co/6jiIiEoRVd

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This reminds me of the sex scene in Delany's novel Dhalgren that goes on for so long it becomes clear to the reader its gratuitous excess is the point, and then it goes on for ten more pages https://t.co/TCOsJUPIqr

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“Greenland” is a refreshing novel from an author who makes unconventional artistic choices to serve his ends.