Dwight Garner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dwight Garner

Candid, plain-spoken and gripping... “Knife” is a clarifying book. It reminds us of the threats the free world faces. It reminds us of the things worth fighting for.

Dwight Garner

There are too many preset frequencies on Millhauser’s dial. A little of him, for this reader, goes a long way…When Millhauser is on, he hands you a periscope of his own unique design, and he allows you to really look and feel. You can bring your own allegory.

Dwight Garner

Funny, foxy and fleet... The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart. The characters in Colored Television are wonderful talkers; they're wits and improvisers who clock the absurdities of the human condition. You often feel you're listening in on a three-bottles-into-it dinner party.

Dwight Garner

It’s hard to overstate how central Milan Kundera was, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere. He was the best-known Czech writer since Kafka, and his fiction brought news of sophisticated Eastern European societies trembling under the threat of Soviet repression.

Dwight Garner

Murata’s prose is deadpan, as clear as cellophane, and has the tidiness of a bento box. She’s not the most subtle writer. You don’t read her for her extra-fine perceptual apparatus. You read her because when her stuff works, it’s chilly and transgressive at the same time.

Dwight Garner

Her book is an achievement: It’s solid and well reported. But it’s dutiful… This biography’s best set piece might be the lead-up to a public debate in the winter of 1997 at Manhattan’s Town Hall, between Wilson and a less generous critic, Robert Brustein of The New Republic.

Dwight Garner

It’s hard to overstate how central Kundera was, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere. He was the best-known Czech writer since Kafka, and his fiction brought news of sophisticated Eastern European societies trembling under the threat of Soviet repression.

Dwight Garner

This book will be a boon to those people who, after dinner, sometimes like to unwind by reading choice morsels from books aloud. There are some instant classics here.

Dwight Garner

The book puts Dunlop, the Cambridge-educated English writer and cook, on a new level as a gastronomic commentator. Her prose is as rich and vivid as that of M.F.K. Fisher and Betty Fussell. She lacks Fisher’s froideur, thankfully, and has Fussell’s buoyancy.

Dwight Garner

She’s a dry yet earthy writer, in touch with moods and manners, with an eye for passing comedy. She is a fine appraiser of socioeconomic detail. She takes notes on her species…She pries at the mystery of life. There’s a strong feeling of convergence in her best stories.