Emma Alpern Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Emma Alpern

I went to the Prospect Park Zoo with the author of one of my favorite books this year, THE VEGAN, a novel of manners about veganism and quantitive hedge funds. Thank you @ailipstein for your time and candor and @madelesque for the sparkling edits! https://t.co/E4aBhcU4Ey

Emma Alpern

In Rouge — which was inspired by “Snow White” — mirrors come to life, roses bloom “redly,” and jellyfish pulse in a massive fish tank. The mood is baroque and unsettling, and the sentences pulse, too, in fragments tied together with repeated words.

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Emma Alpern

Tillman is an icon for a certain kind of reader (and writer). She writes fiction that’s formally innovative but unpretentious, inherently political, and unmistakably of our time. Thrilled to Death collects a career-spanning selection of her short stories starting from the early ’90s

Emma Alpern

At the center of it all is [a] gruesome masterpiece: an automaton, complete with sound effects, of a tiger mauling a European man (which really exists!). Loot is lovingly drawn and compulsively readable, with all the pleasures and detail of stellar historical fiction.

Emma Alpern

Bullwinkel’s debut novel is as tense and disciplined as its characters... There’s a mesmerizing sense of limitlessness to the narrative, which roams far into the future of these fighters even as they’re absorbing hits in the ring.

Emma Alpern

After a disastrously embarrassing incident at work, former NPR host Reuben is out of a job. So he’s more than happy to leave New York for a long vacation in Copenhagen, where his wife, Cecilie, grew up... Lipstein’s latest is a simmering psychological novel about modern masculinity

Emma Alpern

Written by Eleanor Catton, author of the The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is many things: an ecological thriller, a treatise about surveillance technology, and a lush meditation on friendship and desire in the vein of Sally Rooney.

Emma Alpern

Entering the arena of literary-fiction novels about nefarious tech start-ups is this spring’s Flux, and it’s especially good.