Julia May Jonas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Julia May Jonas

With her remarkable examination of American monoculture she tells a story about economics that’s neither poverty porn nor finance fantasy. Instead, it’s about the hows and whys of everyday consumerism and the insidious toll it takes on our lives.

Julia May Jonas

Tennessee Williams brought an oxygen tank with him to a rehearsal of one of his plays to show the director how the production of his play was ‘killing him.’ This is the energy missing in the American Theater right now.

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Colette where she belongs—on the cool white sheets of a hotel bed.

Julia May Jonas

Oh oh oh happy pub day to @elisatamar for this glorious, hilarious, brutal baller of a book. Spending time with her main character felt like I was hanging out with my most brilliant and with-it friend—the rhythms of her prose seeped under my skin...

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@alienvsrobbins @KateCarraway “I don’t know what I said when I danced. Probably nothing. Probably, “I’m a pretty girl, I’m a pretty girl, I’m—” Mary Gaitskill, Veronica

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Since this is getting such traction I need to re-mention the source, which is John Lahr’s excellent biography of Tennessee Williams, Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, one of the best biographies I’ve read period. https://t.co/J7ldRt2AqS

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@HillaryKelly The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker captures low-level office-work mindset like no other

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Reflecting on Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, the DFW story about abortion, Richard Brautigan’s ABORTION, that Ben Folds Five song that keeps playing in my coop. What are the best female-authored abortion stories? Other than in film, I’m drawing a blank.

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The inner monologues of men in Andre Dubus’ stories are what I was afraid men were thinking about women when I was a teenager.

Julia May Jonas

Happy belated pub day, to my friend @jasonwilliammcbride !! When he told me he was writing a biography of Kathy Acker I thought, well, there is nothing I’d rather read, and this book did not disappoint—she’s such an art beast inspiration.