John Domini Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

John Domini

"Who wouldn’t turn bright red with embarrassment for an adult scurrying around the state capitol showing legislators what she thinks are the dirty parts of a canonical novel by a Nobel Prize winner?" Important work from @RonCharles @washingtonpost https://t.co/Iw4aB069Be

John Domini

"LOOK AT THE LIGHTS, MY LOVE illuminates both the magic & the hellscape of the superstore... a space divorced from nature, its own ecosystem & echo chamber of horrors." @parisreview, @AdrienneRaphel on #AnnieErnaux as our recording angel of the Big Box. https://t.co/WQAfianHam

John Domini

Today, an unexpected Throwback, a kind online comment about my HIGHWAY TRADE, from 1998. So here's one of the book's loveliest reviews, @RainTaxiReview, plus the single worst I've ever received, thank God in an obscure place-- @nytimesbooks. https://t.co/olhvf2E6pM

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@ambernoelle Late on this, but how about Sontag's UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN? Or Sorrentino's SOMETHING SAID?

John Domini

April 25th is the Italian /Anniversario della Liberazione/, #Liberazione, #BellaCiao: Italy's liberation in '44. In my family that means the 4 Days of Naples, the uprising that threw the Nazis out. Many books come to mind, & my memoir, but especially these two: https://t.co/WnvfpbD6BG

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"By incorporating real-world violence into the plot, Gout elevates the novel into something much more" @lareviewofbooks, @MatthewJSeidel looks deeply into a fresh & creepy attempt at rendering the agonies of recent Central American experience. https://t.co/uLdfghEE5h

John Domini

@J_RomanceWriter A fine novel of the Kurds & their recent tragic history, THE LAST POMEGRANATE TREE, by Bachtyar Ali.

John Domini

"Our past was lost; our future suspect, so the rituals from the ancient world offered escape from despair. Ritual fortified us." Fae Myenne Ng, @lithub & @groveatlantic, illuminating how her great BONE both honored & rejected the Old Country. https://t.co/C21jiFyvWg

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"Alongside pink, tangerine, & crimson sunsets, I think of you in all of LA’s prideful transgression, the erotic abject — that blend of shit & sex & steel. @RosBossGonzalez @GuernicaMag, raising a hymn to CITY OF GOD, Gil Cuadros. https://t.co/9Sb7yPQLWY

John Domini

Christopher Sorrentino delivered one of my most rewarding review assignments last year, & tomorrow, don't miss him talking w/ @jasalvatore & others about his NOW BEACON, NOW SEA, @CalandraItal. Plus, #GilbertSorrentino. https://t.co/EEKb6JlDUc