Jessica Ferri Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jessica Ferri

With the precision of a historian, Funder cobbles together scant details to reconstruct a life... Considering how little information Funder has to work with, Wifedom is a spectacular achievement of both scholarship and pure feeling.

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Jessica Ferri

Heti is one of the freest writers and thinkers I know.... she took 10 years of her diaries and alphabetized them by the first letter of the first word of each sentence, then cut the book down into the volume published... It is an absolute delight.

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Jessica Ferri

“There came a moment in every artist’s life, I typed, when, confronted with the defense mechanism of her work thus far, she moved through whatever she was hiding from and changed, or ran away and spiraled further into delusion.” --Jordan Castro, The Novelist

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Jessica Ferri

Am I the last person to know that D.H. Lawrence stole the idea for Lady Chatterley from Forster’s Maurice and that he probably also killed Katherine Mansfield? Ok

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Jessica Ferri

A terrifyingly intense and eerily spiritual book... Butler’s prose, coupled with the disturbing but necessary questions he raises, makes it the best book I’ve read this year.

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Jessica Ferri

There’s not much one needs to say to explain the excitement over a new book by Rooney, the Irish wunderkind whose first novel is the unbelievably perfect 'Conversations With Friends.' Unlike her previous books, which center on romance and its discontents, 'Intermezzo' is about a family relationship: Two brothers, lawyer Peter and chess master Ivan, grapple with their father’s death.

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Jessica Ferri

But books like “Thin Skin” are important. They run on hope, which is perhaps the only capital left to those who would like to see the human race survive.

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Jessica Ferri

“In fact, ‘today’ is a word only suicides ought to be allowed to use, it has no meaning for other people. It merely signifies a day like all the rest . . .” —Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina https://t.co/Om4ozvo1dY

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Jessica Ferri

Had Edie never made it to New York, she would’ve been an “ephemeral and purely local phenomenon,” her sister, Alice Sedgwick Wohl, writes in “As It Turns Out.” But Edie made it to New York and met Andy Warhol. https://t.co/2S0EKApX4b https://t.co/ZDUAHSSa1x

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Pinckney is a sly writer, with the impressionistic brush of a poet but the dedication of a historian. He gets his own one-liners in there too. It is a memoir of his own life, his development as a writer and his coming of age as a Black, gay man.

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