Jennifer Wilson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jennifer Wilson

You might be able to mass-produce the book’s outer binding, but the pages inside it resist commodification. That’s because no two readings of “Paradoxical Undressing” are alike. Everyone’s version of it is uniquely their own.

Jennifer Wilson

Her books, which often combine the two genres — crime and travel fiction — showcase the way violence can transport a person out of the land of the naïve faster than any jet. Indeed, the antonym for naïve is worldly.

Jennifer Wilson

…the science writer Daniel Stone explores the public’s fascination with sunken ships and what attempts to resurrect the Titanic, an emblem of wealth and power, say about whose memories are allowed to sink and whose we refuse to let drown.

Jennifer Wilson

Happy to see the prolific translator Megan McDowell included among the nominees for the @nationalbook Award in Translated Literature. I wrote about her translation of Alejandro Zambra's Chilean Poet earlier this year. https://t.co/LIfxDWSqdy https://t.co/lfTX5Bl5Hr

Jennifer Wilson

The taiga the detective finds is not a repository for the myths we tell about remote places; it is, rather, a broken landscape, torn asunder by deforestation, extraction capitalism and the illegal enterprises set up to serve men in the logging industry.

Jennifer Wilson

I loved Big Swiss, a sexy romantic comedy about mental health, class, and the incredible feeling of finding someone who's messed up in exactly the same way as you. My review for @nytimesbooks: https://t.co/W7NgxzGZhm

Jennifer Wilson

This cacophonous novel, made up of wildly divergent arguments written by an author who refuses to let any point of view go by without cross-examination, coheres. Its elements are all made, by Dostoyevsky, to belong.

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Jennifer Wilson

Atwood understands that abusive men are not motivated by sex, but by the desire to inflict harm on real women, who don’t need to be programmed with a numerical scale to know that they’re hurting.

Jennifer Wilson

Her novels frequently feature characters who are adrift and unmoored, with complex lineages that scan as vaguely foreign wherever they are...Messud lets the messiness of reality overflow the neatness of fiction, as if in defiance of this tendency.

Jennifer Wilson

🚨Mark your calendars! Stephen Kearse is coming to town! We'll be discussing his brilliant new novel, Liquid Snakes, a sci-fi whodunit about environmental racism and the big business of "Black death" at @ptknitwear August 25th. RSVP and pre-order: https://t.co/9aNSAbtNyd https://t.co/Et1G7knfXe