Jeff VanderMeer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jeff VanderMeer

With all the talk of Napoleon movies, I highly recommend David G. Chandler's The Campaigns of Napoleon. You might not expect it to be a page-turner, but that was my experience. An amazing amount of interesting detail. Stole a few narrative techniques for describing battles. https://t.co/2AKXZZepT8

Jeff VanderMeer

Find out more about Philip K. Dick Award winner @AlisonStine's new novel Trashlands at this @PorterSqBooks event Thurs Nov 4, 7:30pm. I'll be joining Alison as will the wonderful @joanhewrites, for a discussion of climate fiction and much else, I'm sure. https://t.co/gAuX9XkAaB https://t.co/xjuiGVtME6

Jeff VanderMeer

DO NOT miss the release by @Wakefield_Press later this year of a book of writings by the amazing surrealist painter Remedios Varo OR the rare sighting of Jean Ray in English, a first since the 1960s in terms of an affordable, trade edition. http://wakefieldpress.com/forthcoming.html https://t.co/pqXbzgT6bb

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Jeff VanderMeer

Seriously? You too? And you want to know what we're right inside there reading? Well, I'm enjoying the hell out of John Darnielle's The Devil House and Ann was reading Craig Pittman's latest great book on Florida, The State You're In. @mountain_goats @craigtimes https://t.co/4PSoMKXhcq

Jeff VanderMeer

Enjoying the hell out of Gus Moreno's mordent, moving, and creepy This Thing Between Us. Definitely recommend. Great cover, too. @FSGOriginals https://t.co/8WUNs1O9DK

Jeff VanderMeer

Books I'm reading: Kim Stanley Robinson's hybrid nonfic/coffee table book about his favorite place; Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny weird story collection, translated by @AntonHur; Jakob von Uexkull's fascinating A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, a posthumanist classic. https://t.co/NZw3XJWJbO

Jeff VanderMeer

Finally, after 3 tries, deeply into Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea, which is so very gorgeous in details of the natural world, brutal in depictions of theater and relationships and narrated by a man at best a cad at worst a monster but in such a way sublime moments shine thru. https://t.co/TEmhFWQeYC

Jeff VanderMeer

This powerful novel charts the aftermath of an expedition steeped in the unknown... After deep-sea researcher Leah returns from an expedition, she experiences odd symptoms, and her wife must grapple with changes in the marriage and with Leah's enigmatic employer, the Centre.

Jeff VanderMeer

Nice to see Secret Life by Theo Ellsworth, adapted from my short story, recommended by @nytimes today! Out from @DandQ. Fun fact: "Secret Life" was my first surreal office story. The second "The Situation" formed the proto-inspiration for my novel Borne. https://t.co/hKlztq1ToV

Jeff VanderMeer

My essay on Ursula K. Le Guin and environmental themes in The Left Hand of Darkness, just posted over at @Orion_Magazine. "The fact that exists outside of the established narrative of a system must plead its case with extra vigor." @PicadorUSA @mcdbooks https://t.co/W882xKfqvy