Dwight Garner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dwight Garner

He was set up to be the next Jack Nicklaus or Arnold Palmer, and along comes Tiger Woods and suddenly Phil Mickelson is the second-hand guy for the rest of his life. This book is an interesting look at how he's dealt with that life and career.

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Dwight Garner

It’s grittier than anything we’ve read about him. Here are the prostitutes, a lot of prostitutes, and one-night stands, and rumors of affairs with other food-world personalities... His heroin habit is recounted. So is his frequent coldness to many who loved and worked with him.

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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.

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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.

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Dwight Garner

A mature, sophisticated weeper. It makes a lot of feelings begin to slide around in you ... Rooney has an exquisite perceptiveness and a zest for keeping us reading ... This book charmed and moved me.

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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.

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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.

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Dwight Garner

Kushner’s fealty to Trump remains absolute. Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo. ... He seems to have no beliefs beyond carefully managed appearances and the art of the deal.

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Dwight Garner

This is one for the introverts -- the wary and the peevish, the uncertain of their looks, taste, talent and class status. Garner has an ideal voice to express late-night pangs of precariousness and distress, some more comic than others. Her prose is clear... take it or leave it.

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Dwight Garner

This is a simple thread on which to hang beads of perception. Coetzee, who is 83, retains a sure touch. This is a convincing late-period novel... It’s a pared-down book that avoids the excess philosophizing that has dragged down some of his more recent novels.

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