Dwight Garner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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

This is Everett’s most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful. Beneath the wordplay, and below the packed dirt floor of Everett’s moral sensibility, James is an intensely imagined human being…It is a tangled and subversive homage, a labor of rough love

Dwight Garner

Erpenbeck... is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have. Clinging to the undercarriage of her sentences, like fugitives, are intimations of Germany’s politics, history and cultural memory... I don’t generally read the books I review twice, but this one I did.

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

This book is “a love story,” Courogen writes early on, and indeed it is. The author is an ardent fan who’s read everything and talked to whomever she could. Her intensity shines. Sometimes you’d rather ride along with a fan than with a professor.

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

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

Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice... [Headshot is] fresh and strong and sinuous... so enveloping to read that you feel, at times, that you are writing it in your own mind.