Drew 🦩🏨 Gummerson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Drew 🦩🏨 Gummerson

You would like to thank everyone who attended your #NationalAuthorsDay talk. And drinks after. In answer to complaints, ripping out pages of Sally Rooney’s Normal People & wiping them on your arse was an eg of Rimbaud-esque behaviour and not meant to be disrespectful. In any way. https://t.co/yTURV6j3pS

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Teenagers eating dead pop stars, witches, curses, dead babies, defecation, masturbation, stinks, smells. This is how to do a short story collection. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez (trns Megan McDowell). #ShortStoryJune @LaEnriquez1973 @GrantaBooks https://t.co/6BLDyvRiDb

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@heidipearljames @LouiseWriter I never think of myself as ‘belonging’ to something but I look at my writing and see that all my characters have economically precarious lives, all my short stories, books. And I like books that reflect that - Willy Vlautin, Emmanuel Bove, George Saunders… it’s that lack of net.

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@TobiasvRyan Umbrella, Shark and Phone by Will Self. They’re brilliant.

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Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra (trns Megan McDowell) @FitzcarraldoEds is small and perfectly formed. Pruned. A love affair, doomed, played out against a backdrop of literature, great affairs, life. https://t.co/oBOFvPcDkD

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@neilcambers Have you read Clemens Meyer? https://t.co/JuGvGqgCxP All the Lights contains In the Aisles - set in a warehouse and also a fine film. Dark Satellites from @FitzcarraldoEds is also a great collection - both full of regular jobs / unemployment.

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5. Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (trns Frances Riddle) A dead daughter murdered? A mother with Parkinson’s sets off to find the truth. Hardly being able to walk. Taking place over a single day Elena Knows is an astonishing tremendous feat. @CharcoPress https://t.co/vyxHuqTTvz

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Good opportunity this. Because motel stories are the best stories. Think The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin. The Spy Who Loved Me, the strangest of the Bond novels (Fleming tried to stop its publication.) My Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel was written with the motel vibe in mind. https://t.co/xFxO91IbuQ

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I loved Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra (trns Megan McDowell), full of books, talk about books, writers, poets. And sex, love, messy relationships, getting by. It’s erudite & chatty, playful, and in the end, hopeful. Check this out and then his other books, short stories, essays https://t.co/AnlQmz2Seb

Drew 🦩🏨 Gummerson

@jennycolgan @emreadsthebooks Well have you read Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things? It is as the title says… Paul Auster’s 4, 3, 2, 1? Lucy Ellman’s Ducks Newburyport (loved it), Franzen’s The Corrections.