Gregory Cowles Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Gregory Cowles

Strictly speaking, this book is more a diary than a journal: Burton doesn’t spend much time analyzing the experiences he records, or honing his craft. That hardly matters. The experiences themselves, and the dishy insinuating tone that Burton uses… make it hard to turn away.

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I like to imagine that Olga Tokarczuk would be as amused as I am to discover that “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” is No. 33 in self-help and psychology humor https://t.co/itoxbNd3oH

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In 2018 I interviewed Martin Amis at the Texas Book Festival about his Holocaust novel “The Zone of Interest” (narrated, like “Time’s Arrow,” from the German POV), and he turned the talk memorably to Hitler’s sex life. https://t.co/4CLCwDVkfj

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A reader asked me to recommend a contemporary poem for her daughter’s wedding, so I pointed her to this beauty that closes Katie Ford’s “If You Have to Go” (2018). https://t.co/p0cdSjCyz1

Gregory Cowles

At dinner my mom told us her book club had read a poem about a dead brother, but she couldn’t remember which one, so I concluded the evening by reciting Marie Howe’s great “What the Living Do.” (Wrong poem, but well received.)

Gregory Cowles

Harry Crews’s “A Childhood” is turning into John Williams’s “Stoner”: the book that just keeps getting rediscovered and rediscovered.

Gregory Cowles

In this way a poem that opens with death ends with sex, moving along the way from nature (the river) to religion (Christmas) and ending in human communion. If you’ve never read Glück, it’s a great place to start.

Gregory Cowles

In 2018 I interviewed Martin Amis at the Texas Book Festival about his Holocaust novel “The Zone of Interest” (narrated, like “Time’s Arrow,” from the German POV), and he turned the talk memorably to Hitler’s sex life. https://t.co/4CLCwDVkfj

Gregory Cowles

On this week's podcast, it dawns on me that one reason I resist travel writing is all the slide shows I had to sit through as a kid. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/books/review/podcast-colson-whitehead-harlem-shuffle-colm-toibin-magician.html

Gregory Cowles

Harry Crews’s “A Childhood” is turning into John Williams’s “Stoner”: the book that just keeps getting rediscovered and rediscovered.