Keziah Weir Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Keziah Weir

Writing first in her adopted Italian, Lahiri conjures freighted connections—a husband longs for another woman; a family weathers racist attacks—in and around a Rome humming with life.

Keziah Weir

...set during the early days of the Occupy movement, this book grapples with questions of art and commerce. There’s art theft (of all kinds), art pranks, good art, and art that reminded me of a Jemima Kirke line... “It’s a mixture of cocaine and digestives, mounted on wood.”

Keziah Weir

In Han’s surreal genre twister, from the afterlife, centenarian Jeonga Cha looks back on the family rifts she created while trying to keep up appearances.

Keziah Weir

Here, a unicorn: a propulsive, well-written novel about a couple in which both parties enjoy the other’s company... Through pitch-perfect observations, droll and intimate interactions, through attention and care, Aysegul Savas has conjured a page turner.

Keziah Weir

In 2014, Kwon started writing Exhibit, and over the intervening decade has polished it so it glitters like a garnet in firelight.

Keziah Weir

T H E BUSHWHACKED P I A N O ♥️ this piece on the Vintage Contemporaries cover artist by @dankois (author of VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES, a love letter to the artist and an homage to Laurie Colwin) https://t.co/UFAKpAagIb

Keziah Weir

The Magician...follows the German writer Thomas Mann from his childhood through to his exile in Switzerland in the 1930s...It’s a writer, writing about a writer, writing about writing. My not-all-that-guilty pleasure.

Keziah Weir

Brimming with precise descriptions of interpersonal intimacies...the kind of thing you want to consume in one sitting, and if you have any long plane rides in your future, you probably can.

Keziah Weir

The narrative takes on a sort of ghosts-of-girlfriends-past cadence, with various former lovers and friends dropping by to allow Charles to show off his self-involvement, vanity, and weird dinner menus... There are, too, beautiful and roiling descriptions of the ocean.

Keziah Weir

"As a writer, I’m thinking of ways I can pressurize this character for the reader and create a tension that’s going to hopefully carry you along the span of a novel. It’s often, In what ways are you going to turn the screws on this character?" —Emma Cline on THE GUEST