Katy Waldman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Katy Waldman is a book critic and writer. writer @newyorker. formerly @slate. moves like ice on a hot stove. sorry for tweeting this, I don’t have instagram!
Kudos
Rachel CuskKaty WaldmanMy short take on "Kudos," by Rachel Cusk: It is pessimistic about the state of the novel, and pessimistic about its own efforts to remake the novel (and it is also radical and beautiful): https://t.co/4Dvxz9UgtP
Paperback, 2019
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Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care
Ilana YurkiewiczKaty WaldmanThe towering doctor + thinker (+ my college bestie) @ilanayurkiewicz has a book out today. It’s a brilliant, sensitive reckoning with the fragmentation of the health care industry and only she could have written it.
Hardcover, 2023
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Dinosaurs
Lydia MilletKaty Waldman“Dinosaurs” is sharp and implacably funny; it evades the sanctimony you’d expect. Millet writes in the simple, enigmatic language of books for young people.
Hardcover, 2022
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Y/N
Esther YiKaty WaldmanI reviewed Esther Yi’s “Y/N,” a perfectly feral book, you want to draw closer and touch it knowing it will bite your hand off…https://t.co/DT1qohACNE
Hardcover, 2023
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The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine ChanKaty WaldmanThe book is a bleak and scalding satire of the cult of selfless caregiving, and also a soulful meditation on the bond between parents and children.
Paperback, 2023
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If I Survive You
Jonathan EscofferyKaty WaldmanA ravishing début ... The book, about an immigrant family struggling to make ends meet, delights in mocking the trope of an immigrant family struggling to make ends meet ... There’s peacocking humor, capers, and passages of shuddering eroticism. The book feels thrillingly free.
Paperback, 2023
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Owlish
Dorothy TseKaty WaldmanTse’s prose curls around Q like a vine, dropping him in landscapes that are equal parts Bosch and Freud, lush and deranged. Imagine an after-hours cut of Disney’s “Fantasia”; Alexander Portnoy on acid; a Losing Your Virginity theme park brought to you by Mephistopheles.
Paperback, 2023
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Very Cold People
Sarah MangusoKaty WaldmanRuthie’s halting narration and lack of affect suggest a girl caught within a net of pain; the task of the book is to unmask each node, or victim, in the net, moving suspensefully inward.
Paperback, 2023
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Tom Lake
Ann PatchettKaty WaldmanTom Lake is a fairy tale, a conjunction of person, time, and place, and it is as transient as any idyll… The early pandemic, with its claustrophobic intimacy, seems almost tailor-made for Patchett’s interests. “Tom Lake” is about being caught in an intractable family situation.
Hardcover, 2023
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Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
Kaitlyn TiffanyKaty Waldman...fandom has started to feel like a phenomenon akin to cryptocurrency or economic populism—a history-shaping force that we’d be foolish to ignore... One Direction makes for a good case study.
Paperback, 2022
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