Katie Kitamura Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura on her new novel and the writers who have influenced and inspired her: Marguerite Duras, Javier Marias, Patrick Modiano.

Katie Kitamura

One of my favorite novels by one of my favorite writers. The opening page — in which a woman matter-of-factly reveals that she has shot her husband — is extraordinary. And the novel carries on from there, a tumult of dread and horror, right through to the end.

Katie Kitamura

I was captivated by this study of the commerce, science, and culture around the matsutake mushroom ... Reading it, you find yourself in unexpected places: with mushroom pickers in the Pacific Northwest and at fine-dining establishments in Japan.

Katie Kitamura

By closely observing the reality — financial, logistical, and emotional — of its central character, Territory of Light builds into a powerful indictment of Japanese society and its treatment of women.

Katie Kitamura

Excited to talk to Aysegul Savas about her magnificent novel, White on White. Next Weds @mcnallyjackson at 5pm! https://t.co/iiKccATGa5

Katie Kitamura

Happiest of pub days to @ashnelsonlevy! What a joy to talk with her about her beautiful novel, IMMEDIATE FAMILY, for @BOMBmagazine. https://t.co/AQIBrtheAV

Katie Kitamura

This, on the extraordinary work of @jon_mcgregor, is very good. LEAN FALL STAND is out in a couple weeks from @CatapultStory, please preorder. https://t.co/J4oK9D0DpU

Katie Kitamura

Dana Spiotta's work has been important to me for a very, very long time; it turns out she is also the most generous of souls. Every book of hers dazzles and provokes, and I cannot wait to read her latest, WAYWARD, out July 6. https://t.co/5u54rmZB88

Katie Kitamura

A marvel of compressed unease, the novel is also wildly exuberant…Her style is simple and matter of fact, but full of unexpected pivots. She is also very funny. The novel is written with the kind of deadpan humor that makes you laugh even as it leaves you feeling a little queasy.

Katie Kitamura

Kawakami is a singular writer, and her prose has a ferocious energy. This novel was something of a surprise in its quiet tenderness, but like all Kawakami's work it is about being an outsider, about loneliness, longing, and the refusal to conform.