Levi Stahl Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Levi Stahl

Second year in a row Virginia Woolf’s diaries were daily company. @mervatim’s Annotated Mrs Dalloway: an editing & production triumph. The Dolphin Letters—absorbing, maddening. Rachel Eisendrath’s Gallery of Clouds will make you fall for Philip Sidney—& idiosyncratic reading. https://t.co/CEPVCT2jhC

Levi Stahl

Here are the books I read in January 2022. Dickens was a tonic, Ivanhoe a hoot. And @markhaber713’s Reinhardt’s Garden was exactly what I needed after a stretch of not really getting into non-genre contemporary fiction—distinctively voiced, funny, clever, strange. https://t.co/JIg0sMFCtr

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They lacked style, but they also lacked pretentiousness, and whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. --Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

Levi Stahl

We all have our snakes in the can. We are all the can.—Sam Lipsyte, No One Left to Come Looking for You

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My god, Edmund Gosse never appears in any memoirs or diaries of the period but what he’s being slagged off as an empty, irritating operator. (But, oh, Father and Son is a masterpiece.) https://t.co/rGh59b56gn

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And we have so many more on sale! Reading catalog's in the mail now, full of great new books for general readers. @NeilSteinberg's Every Goddamn Day, @jessa_crispin's My Three Dads, @ENOgden's On Not Knowing & so many more! Use code AD1979 for 30% off. https://t.co/ZHP6kgm5WO https://t.co/vQD60eP8qv

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Good @UChicagoLibrary haul today. Josephine Tey because it’s summer murder mystery season, and Change in the Village because apparently I’m joining @caleb_crain in the George Sturt fan club. https://t.co/kPUKCDsfb2

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Wishes are like beauty—vain things. —Stephen King, Fairy Tale

Levi Stahl

Two dreams last night: 1. I visited the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Island and Cave. Which is a museum in Chicago. And is accessed via a ferry. I missed the ferry and had to wait an hour. 2. I was chopping celery.

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The condition of the English nation was at this time sufficiently miserable. . . . To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land.—Walter Scott, Ivanhoe