Jim Ruland Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Girl, Interrupted was a big influence on Make It Stop so it's a thrill to see Susanna Kaysen write about it 30 years later: "suffering doesn’t change." https://t.co/XpgaKUdaLj

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Fans of Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger: what, if anything, are we to make of the fact that the campground in Roberto Bolaño's The Skating Rink is called Stella Maris?

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Even if you didn’t spend your adolescence puking on your shoes in parking lots, flirting with calamity as distorted riffs thunder out of blown-out speakers… “Gone to the Wolves” captures the feeling of loving something so intensely it just might kill you.

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Loved this conversation between @jasminedreame and @TobiasCarroll about his novel EX-MEMBERS. https://t.co/mRVwPrEQdu

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Had the pleasure of speaking with @sternbergh about his new novel The Eden Test, which is out today so go get it! https://t.co/54EkMYJD5P

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@melissafebos Happy birthday! It's been a few months but can't stop thinking about Sara Gran's The Book of the Most Precious Substance.

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Leave it to Megan Abbott to tap into the American zeitgeist and play on her readers’ fears like a conductor leading a doomsday orchestra. We may not know where we’ll be tomorrow, but Abbott knows wagering that the wheel of grift, greed and corruption will keep on turning.

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Stunning new crime saga... The novel’s scope is expansive, and so is the buzz that comes trailing it... filled with private-security mercenaries, sheriff’s department deputy gangs, political donors with dangerous drug habits... In “Everybody Knows,” nothing is off the table

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@Cassiuslives @jordan_harper @stephycha At Stories Books & Cafe with @APolitanoff @K_Scanlan_ @NatashiaDeon @kashanacauley https://t.co/jpqqAFZWTc

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Today I remember the punk rocker who relayed Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" to me as a true story.