Lily Meyer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lily Meyer

@dan_sinykin "maus," "marjorie morningstar," this is not a usual one but i would do "goodbye without leaving" by laurie colwin - no one writes deep assimilation better than her

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Lily Meyer

Birnam Wood... picks up on the instability of trying to be good, a pursuit the book views quite bleakly ... is dark in both its outlook and its omnipresent humor.... Birnam Wood wants to know if a person has to be good to do good—and how to identify what goodness is ...

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Lily Meyer

love love loved talking to Tania James about her writing practice and her terrific new novel LOOT for @thecreativeindp ! https://t.co/Zf7lPlW4x1

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Lily Meyer

for @thenation, I wrote about @DavidKurnick's terrific critical revisiting of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives, a book that should not be judged by its annoying fans (I should know: I used to be one) https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/savage-detectives-reread/

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"The Savage Detectives” Reread offers a persuasive and compelling case for conscious—and self-conscious—reading. By attending closely to technical detail, Kurnick demonstrates the power of careful analysis to cut through mythmaking

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Hit Parade of Tears, her second collection to be translated, has the could-it-be-prescience that renders good science fiction both captivating and uncanny. At the same time, it often feels so rooted in the '60s and '70s that it could have emerged from a time capsule.

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Lily Meyer

Peu evokes Tahiti with rough, unsentimental grace ... [and] writes brutal scenes with wrenching immediacy, though she never lets the reader forget that the truest sources of violence in Pina are colonization and poverty.

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Lily Meyer

@surlybassey Molly Keane’s GOOD BEHAVIOUR!

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I wrote for @TheAtlantic about Alejandro Zambra's cautiously optimistic CHILEAN POET, his first serious look toward the future: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/02/chilean-poet-alejandro-zambra-review/622926/

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Lily Meyer

That frustration, which springs from Arendt's otherwise-intense identification with her subject, powers the book, turning it into an imaginative mix of biography and social commentary that still feels, as the scholar Barbara Hahn writes...thoroughly "ahead of its time."

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