Julian Zabalbeascoa Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Julian Zabalbeascoa

Challenging myself to write paragraphs that wouldn’t bore a reader who just finished @nicoleflattery's SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME. Each are dynamic & surprising, possess a wild pulse. Excited for her first novel NOTHING SPECIAL to reach our shores this summer. https://t.co/ejxpqGRTic

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Such great short stories in the newest issue of @Salamander_Mag from @CoreyECampbell, @CharlotteLGross, @JustinaElias, and Nicole Simonsen, the latter two having won the fiction prize which was judged by Yiyun Li. https://t.co/3x7h5ATkjv

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Late getting this one up, but Shubha Sunder's launching at @booksmithtweets of her debut collection of stories BOOMTOWN GIRL, published by @BlackLawrence, was not only a great evening but also the most packed I've ever seen my local indie for a reading. https://t.co/zvfmfeA8v6

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Been a fan of @_karentucker_’s work since first reading her story “Humping the Bush” in an issue of @Salamander_Mag, so I’m looking forward to her debut novel Bewilderness. Add to it that it’s published by @CatapultStory, who have been slaying it for a long while now. https://t.co/lddL2gT5p2

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California's Central Valley represent! @EthanChatagnier's Singer Distance is a true beauty. Published by @Tin_House, the novel is part sci-fi, part mystery, all a touching meditation on our desire for connection while we spin around a sun that's determined to one day burn out. https://t.co/AYUa1xf9eo

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Hell yeah! From Jonathan Miles over at @gardenandgun: Cormac McCarthy's new novel is "the humid, fevered, magniloquent, Bible-cadenced, comma-starved, word-drunk prose of what some fans consider McCarthy’s masterwork, Suttree." https://t.co/jIvt0SvP49

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Well over a month since I read @CaoilinnHughes novel The Wild Laughter, but so much of it sticks with me still, including this absolute banger of a line: "...dreaming of the pink slip of her, hands on me making good and bearable the fluke of my existence."

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Take it from me and the Booker Prize folks: Richard Flanagan’s THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH is pure brilliance. https://t.co/ZR3d7KBnRS

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The Road to Unfreedom by @TimothyDSnyder, published in 2018, is the best book I've read on Ukraine-Russia. If you've already read it or have yet to, his new essay in @ForeignAffairs is an excellent primer or follow-up to it. https://t.co/8nNQeXTsui

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On a day when we must again #MarchForOurLives, here is a passage from @PhilKlay’s brilliant “A History of Violence,” which is a thorough and troubling accounting of America’s relationship with guns. You can find it in his new collection of essays UNCERTAIN GROUND. https://t.co/084AhKt3m9