Liesl Schillinger Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Liesl Schillinger

Mon. May 10, 7pm, I talk with Leslie Brody ("Sometimes You Have to Lie") and Ann McCutchan ("The Life She Wished to Live") about their respective biographies of Louise Fitzhugh (HARRIET THE SPY) and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings "THE YEARLING." Join us on ZOOM! https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/life-she-wished-live-ann-mccutchan-and-leslie-brody-liesl-schillinger-virtual-event?fbclid=IwAR2rtqC86a3Huu-0b0T5PTAL47pbK9NXE7R-_FX_zMI8vPMGEIgyuz-3QKM

Liesl Schillinger

Beautiful, mind-opening essay by Liz Outka on how the 1918-19 flu pandemic shaped Yeats's poetry and Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"—and on how fiction can help us find meaning in the current pandemic. Just added it to the readings for my Crit class. https://t.co/uAC1Wqa6t6

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Thinking today of Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August," on the miscalculations that led to the First World War—in light of Russia's continuing savagery against Ukraine, and the West's hopes for sanctions. Here's a summation of one miscalculation, from Wiki. https://t.co/r3HglTTVgx

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@jamiattenberg Have you ever read the excellent "The Devil in the Flesh," by Raymond Radiguet? Or Annie Ernaux's "A Girl's Story" (more in the vein of memoir)? Or (a little longer, @250 pp), "The 158-Pound Marriage," by John Irving?

Liesl Schillinger

Mon. May 10, 7pm, I talk with Leslie Brody ("Sometimes You Have to Lie") and Ann McCutchan ("The Life She Wished to Live") about their respective biographies of Louise Fitzhugh (HARRIET THE SPY) and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings "THE YEARLING." Join us on ZOOM! https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/life-she-wished-live-ann-mccutchan-and-leslie-brody-liesl-schillinger-virtual-event?fbclid=IwAR2rtqC86a3Huu-0b0T5PTAL47pbK9NXE7R-_FX_zMI8vPMGEIgyuz-3QKM

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@tripgabriel Some favorites I’ve read or reread lately were “Shuggie Bain” (Douglas Stuart), “The Devil in the Flesh”(Radiguet), “A Golden Age” (Tahmima Anam), “By Night in Chile” (Bolaño), “Severance” (Ling Ma), “Homegoing” (Yaa Gyasi), “Hiroshima,” and “A Summons to Memphis” (Peter Taylor)

Liesl Schillinger

Mon. May 10, 7pm, I talk with Leslie Brody ("Sometimes You Have to Lie") and Ann McCutchan ("The Life She Wished to Live") about their respective biographies of Louise Fitzhugh (HARRIET THE SPY) and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings "THE YEARLING." Join us on ZOOM! https://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/life-she-wished-live-ann-mccutchan-and-leslie-brody-liesl-schillinger-virtual-event?fbclid=IwAR2rtqC86a3Huu-0b0T5PTAL47pbK9NXE7R-_FX_zMI8vPMGEIgyuz-3QKM

Liesl Schillinger

@jamiattenberg Have you ever read the excellent "The Devil in the Flesh," by Raymond Radiguet? Or Annie Ernaux's "A Girl's Story" (more in the vein of memoir)? Or (a little longer, @250 pp), "The 158-Pound Marriage," by John Irving?

Liesl Schillinger

Last fall I reviewed DOG PARK by Finnish author Sofi Oksanen-set mostly in Ukraine. Cities she named felt alien —Dnipro, Mykolaiv. Now they're being bombed; & her essential novel PURGE—on 21c fallout of WWII war crimes, Soviet invasion—is replaying in RL. https://t.co/6ksR0GjPY2

Liesl Schillinger

@tripgabriel Some favorites I’ve read or reread lately were “Shuggie Bain” (Douglas Stuart), “The Devil in the Flesh”(Radiguet), “A Golden Age” (Tahmima Anam), “By Night in Chile” (Bolaño), “Severance” (Ling Ma), “Homegoing” (Yaa Gyasi), “Hiroshima,” and “A Summons to Memphis” (Peter Taylor)