Laura Rozen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Laura Rozen

@sullivanst @AndyTernay @joshtpm Per cnbc “He reportedly read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica at age nine and would pore over science fiction novels...Some of the  most influential books he read included ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’ and Isaac Asimov's ‘Foundation’ series.”

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Picked up Patrick McGrath’s (1990s) novel Asylum Friday afternoon, finished it Saturday. Total page turner, Hitchockian, psychological suspense. Recommend.

Laura Rozen

Important panel at Brookings on Fiona Hill's book, about how our broken politics are not addressing the social and economic conditions giving rise to despair and threatening democracy. https://www.brookings.edu/events/there-is-nothing-for-you-here-finding-opportunity-in-the-21st-century/

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Severance deeply unsettling…like some of the George Saunders stories in 10th of December, the Semplica Girls, and others… too many resemblances and continuity with our own reality

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Lost track of who tweeted this 1962 piece on the couple F. Scott Fitzgerald apparently modeled Tender is the Night On, but what a read https://t.co/LZ0QwErIWT

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RT @nytimesbooks: “In Case of Emergency,” a novel by Mahsa Mohebali, offers an antic portrait of a mind on edge and a gallery of misfits in…

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@TheresaKereakes @JacobHeilbrunn been reading anita brookner, whose books also have characters with kind of submerged continental Jewish roots. Although I don’t think in Hotel du Lac the protaganist ever acknowledges her mother was Jewish, but Viennese

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(piece co-written by Catherine Belton, whose book, Putin’s People, picked up last week & cannot recommend enough. Thesis is KGB deep state during perestroika penetrated pro democracy politics, installed Putin, monopolized all Russian state power centers & economy, & started to https://t.co/GsioZHebw0

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have read two of these, katie kitamura intimacies and tove dittleson, copenhagen trilogy (was that even this year?). both great. https://t.co/coxAcazbef