Lily Meyer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lily Meyer

Strout is among the great living American writers... The pandemic Strout evokes becomes Lucy’s pandemic, strange and isolated and just as peculiar as any real person’s. When that happens, the book loosens up—becoming, finally, as wise and idiosyncratic as any novel can be.

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and, last but not least, a review of Louise Kennedy's Trespasses that's really about how any boundary between romance, literary fiction, war story, and sex story is Fake And Bad https://t.co/hGeR8kJZO2

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to start 2023 right, I wrote for @TheAtlantic about a book that should double as all our new years' resolutions: Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy, a Marxist ode to working less! https://t.co/oi0uraeT7t

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The Editor presents her as both a case study and an agent of change in American conceptions of femininity inside and outside the home. But it also reads, more often than not, like a love story: a great, sweeping seven-decade romance between a woman and her work.

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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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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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@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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Melancholy yet electric ... The fluid transitions between Lahiri’s and Portnowitz’s translations elevate Roman Stories from a grouping of individual tales to a deeply moving whole.

Lily Meyer

...an intensely poetic writer. ... Thuận excels at creating momentum through language, and Nguyen An Lý translates that momentum beautifully. Chinatown exerts a near-tidal pull on the reader. I swallowed it down in one gulp.