Keziah Weir Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Keziah Weir

In rereading the novel six years after I first picked it up, I experienced a similar accordioning of time to the structure of the novel; a confrontation with what I missed the first time round, new understandings that have come with living longer and reading more.

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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.

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(I, reluctant romantic, still find it swoony that James Joyce chose the day of his first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle, on which to set his epic.) “What is the word known to all men?” Stephen Dedalus asks. Read Ulysses, and find out.

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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.

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In The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Doubleday), David Grann untangles the dueling narratives, bringing a nearly 300-year-old drama to life... The result: a genre-defying literary naval-history thriller, part Master and Commander, part Lord of the Flies.

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I talked to Margaret Atwood about a whole bunch of things, among them: her new collection of short stories, Victorian murderesses, autofiction, processing loss, 1984, near-death experiences, crypts in Palermo, the origin of pantyhose, and much, much more. https://t.co/6RIq5WuADS

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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.

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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.

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I loved speaking with Susanna Kaysen about GIRL, INTERRUPTED for the book's 30th anniversary—the slipperiness of time, how hospitals can feel like home, what it was like when fellow patients got in touch after the book published, and more, for @VanityFair. https://t.co/GnLJTzp8ZU

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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.

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