Ken Lowman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ken Lowman

“The Bell Jar refuses to fit neatly into any single genre: it is feminist protest, Cold War history, medical exposé, Bildungsroman, recovery narrative, and quest. “ The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar at 60 https://t.co/0cc19dt9va via @lithub

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“To understand why true crime as a genre can sometimes have trouble with the truth, we need to go back to Truman Capote,”writes @sarahw. And we should start with the time he himself went to jail. “https://t.co/o2PZPjtN1F

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“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there’.” Notes, ponderings, doodlings: behind Capote’s creation of In Cold Blood https://t.co/b82L7jNKvj

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“Far from prompting the gentle rebuke that they are ‘of their time’, the effect of reading them today is to marvel at the untimeliness of their genius.” On Women by Susan Sontag review – some sister she was… https://t.co/ISljYTsZIf

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“Plato did not spend his entire life listening to Socrates philosophising in colonnades in Athens or writing dialogues meandering through complex ideas“ Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy by Robin Waterfield - review by Daisy Dunn https://t.co/w3rYZGrwME via @Lit_Review

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“Their stories, the ones they lived and the ones they invented, are complexly ambivalent, like all good stories; they withhold the assurances of a blueprint.” The Trials and Triumphs of Writing While Woman | The New Yorker https://t.co/gtaBstBo5S

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“Williams once said the best of his work was thanks to his father, who taught him to hate,and not his mother,who taught him to expect more love from the world than he would ever be able to give” How Thomas Lanier Williams Became Tennessee| The New Yorker https://t.co/ocEnKnvfze

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“We like to think novelists possess a special ethical strength, yet a morally compromised writer can project a strange kind of honesty-especially when his society is compromised to the same degree.” Ernst Jünger’s Narratives of Complicity | The New Yorker https://t.co/QEYLFeusaQ

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“Sade “may or may not have been a lunatic” is both vague and reductive, failing to come to grips with the abiding power of his writing. “ Tale of Literary and Financial Debauchery: On Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade” https://t.co/OwiCTAAerl via @lareviewofbooks

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“While I had been sleeping, my mind had gone on thinking over what I had just been reading, although these thoughts had taken an odd turn—I had the impression that I myself had turned into the subject of the book “ ( Swanns Way - Marcel Proust )