Elisa Gonzalez Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Elisa Gonzalez

Maud Casey is one of the loves of my literary life—such an extraordinary writer & person. Read CITY OF INCURABLE WOMEN, see her read from it, do anything you can to listen to her talk!! https://t.co/RYgzPhpXNz

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@KATIE2CONDON “Dying Modern,” by Diana Fuss, has a whole chapter on corpse poems! It’s a good and brief consideration of the modern elegy, too. Dickinson wrote a number of poems in which the dead talk. And this one by Denise Riley (in the voice of her dead son) is chilling: https://t.co/dYKudgXf7p

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I wrote about Solmaz Sharif's rebellious new collection, CUSTOMS (@GraywolfPress) for @NewYorker https://t.co/F00Buq4OY3

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@FluentMundo you could also read House of Mirth, which I think isn’t that long, or Days of Abandonment / The Lost Daughter, or any Helen Garner novel (but especially The Children’s Bach or Monkey Grip)

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@GabrielleBates @FluentMundo it is shatteringly great! less conventionally novelistic but: Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip & any Nathalie Leger & any Muriel Spark but especially Girls of Slender Means or The Driver’s Seat. And if you haven’t finished the Ferrante corpus yet then Days of Abandonment! ok I’m done

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this morning I read “Crossroads”; this wouldn’t have been my prediction for “first book I’ve finished since my brother died.” It was a good 2.5 hours of distraction, so: thank you, Jonathan Franzen

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loved talking with @jennifergrotz1 about her new book STILL FALLING, out now from @GraywolfPress — our convo ranged over poetry as a durable technology, demystifying, habits of attention, “rescue,” friendship, translation, death https://t.co/xXj7kRNzdT @adroitjournal https://t.co/HLzJAe8ICL

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reading a hermione lee biography is like going on vacation with a stranger…who knows whether you’ll love them or hate them by the end but by god you’ll know them

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Sara Freeman answering my question "what are the novels about siblings I should read" before I ask it! (also everyone should buy her brilliant debut novel, "Tides"): https://t.co/GvQocc7PnO https://t.co/vKjg4N98Zr