Judith Kalman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Judith Kalman

So easy to recognize the pain of relationships in one’s youth, like grit in a wound. Youth’s rootlessness too, and the sense of feeling one’s way through the dark, the resulting stumbles and blows. Gwendoline Riley nails all this in First Love, a New York Review Book. https://t.co/FTW15PB7SA

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In The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, from @HarperCollins, the extraordinary is ever-present in everyday circumstance. I could read Erdrich’s dialogue all day—colloquial, colourfully discursive, intellectual, not to mention funny. So many thumbs up. https://t.co/wbvGFzTbqM

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@Peter_Orner’s Still No Word from You, better suggested by its subtitle Notes in the Margin, continues his inimitable snippets of memoir richly veined with all he’s read, begun in Am I Alone Here? I’ve not made as many notes in the margins since that one. Too good to put down. https://t.co/CsyPI7sstD

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One is always trepidatious when a film is being made based on a favourite book. Fingers crossed this film will live up to the absolutely wonderful original. Read Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk first, though. You can’t go wrong. https://twitter.com/HamishH1931/status/1526844585187676160

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For a fun beach read—in my case a back patio read—pick up @katherine_heiny’s Early Morning Riser (Viking @PenguinRandomCA). Anyone who’s taught grade two will split their gut over the deadpan, literal-based remarks of 7-yr.olds, not to mention those of their adult counterparts. https://t.co/HF0b4qaJRG

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Joan Didion’s 1976 essay “Why I Write” in @AAKnopf’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean, recalls Orwell of the same title and anticipates Deborah Levy’s Things I Don’t Want to Know. No one has more simply put my own feelings on the subject. https://t.co/8sRMwoFT2h

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@ozekiland’s The Book of Form and Emptiness is about how the stuff we love to accumulate distracts us from the reality of the interconnectedness of all matter, and threatens to engulf us. The singular structure of this novel from @PenguinCanada melds form to content brilliantly. https://t.co/zzqBLpDBli

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@SimonBooks’ All the Beauty in the World by @PBringley is a meditation on art and personal loss. A journey through art history and grief, told from a position of standing in place in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Utterly original in its conceit, each page a pure pleasure. https://t.co/Du0fJJjPhC

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Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads from @PenguinRandomCA gets you through when you're languishing post flu shot, Covid booster, and Shingrix shot to boot. https://t.co/wbR0unEM6Y

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A novel in which as much weight is given to female friendship as to romantic love. Thank you Sally Rooney in @KnopfCA's Beautiful World, Where Are You https://t.co/stgvtyBE2U