Gabino Iglesias Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Gabino Iglesias

This is awesome: a starred review for The Devil Takes You Home (@mulhollandbooks) in @bookpage, and right next to the great @JamieFord. Also, how about getting compared to Cormac McCarthy AND the Bible? Hah. Love it. “...brawny,serpentine and remarkably poignant novel.” 🖤 https://t.co/gxcE27hqDl

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Tweeting 1-star Goodreads reviews of books I love for perspective, day 2: “Moby Dick is one of the worst, most disappointing experiences of my life.” — Susana’s 1-star review of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

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Tweeting 1-star Goodreads reviews of books I love for perspective, day 27: “man I hate emails” —Chloé’s 1-star review of Eric LaRocca’s Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

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Tweeting 1-star Goodreads reviews of books I love for perspective, day 1: “They. Rape. Cows.” — Sannie’s 1-star review of Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

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My review of @elicranor’s Don’t Know Tough, from @soho_press, is now up at @SouthwestReview. http://southwestreview.com/a-novel-that-knows-what-football-means-in-the-south/

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A sad, brutally honest, and emotionally gritty memoir about "a poor, sexually abused, drug-addicted Chicano kid," I'm Not Broken is the kind of narrative that vividly brings to the page the realities of someone ignored by the system and trapped by the streets.

Gabino Iglesias

The Passenger is part familial trauma story and part slow-burning thriller. However, it's also much more than that. McCarthy writes about everything here, from buried gold and incredibly detailed dives to mathematics and the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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When I come home, I like to share stuff that had an impact on me/blew my mind/was influential/made me want to write. Here’s a short stack: Capote’s short stories, Oscar Zeta Acosta’s Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Bukowski’s Betting on the Muse, and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. https://t.co/vhr4RkPNUn

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Thanks to publishing’s bizarre timing, I’m currently worried about the new novel I started writing back home, worried about the edits for the next one I’m waiting on, and worried about making sure the paperback of The Devil Takes You Home does well. 😬

Gabino Iglesias

John Carpenter is trending. Paul Tremblay is trending. Stephen King is trending. The Stand is trending. The Black Phone is trending. Long live horror.