Lauren Christensen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lauren Christensen

RT @nytimes: Sally Rooney's first two books, "Conversations With Friends" and "Normal People," made her more famous than she liked. For her…

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Lydia Millet reviews Claire Keegan's "Small Things Like These," a slim novel set in 1985 Ireland, when murderous Magdalene Laundries were still condoned by the Catholic Church and society at large. https://t.co/focsh8SyBn

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Discursive, revelatory... As fluent in the comic register as it is in the tragic... The book is less a linear narrative than a neat pile of shattered glass, one shard picked up at a time, in no discernible order.

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It’s about as classic a coming-of-age as you’ll find. But as Ruth grows up...it’s the specificity of this young woman’s mind, the contours with which she draws the characters and environments around her, that make “Lonely Crowds” exceptional.

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I reviewed “Nightcrawling,” the debut novel by Oakland’s 2018 youth poet laureate, set in a gentrifying city where tech money is “settling the land and calling it entrepreneurship” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/books/review/nightcrawling-leila-mottley.html?referringSource=articleShare

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RT @johnwilliamsnyt: I got to speak with Benjamin Labatut on this week's podcast about "When We Cease to Understand the World," one of the…

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Reviewed Laura Warrell’s debut, “Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm”: https://t.co/zGMDcpQFPD

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RT @simplylovia: for @newrepublic, i wrote about zakiya dalila harris's "the other black girl" and the stark whiteness of the office novel…

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King is a master of sexual tension, of the slow build, of gratification torturously delayed. In this respect, Heart the Lover is her best work yet.

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“It’s never seemed particularly obvious to me that hot girls are having such a great time.” Virginie Despentes, King Kong theory