Lincoln Michel Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lincoln Michel

Ball has said that he writes all his books in as little as a day and rarely as long as a week, hoping to “catch a firefly in a glass.” Ball certainly caught something here. 'The Repeat Room' is compelling, eerie and dreamlike, even if, like a dream, the parts don’t fully cohere.

Lincoln Michel

William Shakespeare is, yes, a brilliant author who changed the English language and world literature with his artistic power. But damn he really phoned in it in Hamlet when Polonius is slain and his dialogue is just "O, I am slain."

Lincoln Michel

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Do you just want to be a Great Gatsby?" he said "Or do you want to be the GREATEST Gatsby?" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby #firstlines #amwriting

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Do we really have to rebrand "being a whiny baby asshole" as "demon mode"? https://t.co/4CtZFNgH0R

Lincoln Michel

This makes me want to write a short story about the CIA inventing a time machine and zapping back to give teenage Karl Marx a copy of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" to prevent the Communist Manifesto ever being written.

Lincoln Michel

If you want to buy a copy of my weird story collection Upright Beasts... https://t.co/YeAmmayDW2

Lincoln Michel

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Do you want to be a Great Gatsby?" he said "Or do you want to be the GREATEST Gatsby?" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby #famousfirstlines

Lincoln Michel

"Wasps pass through the laddered light from the barnslats in a succession of strobic moments, gold and trembling between black and black, like fireflies in the serried upper gloom.” ― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

Lincoln Michel

This makes me want to write a short story about the CIA inventing a time machine and zapping back to give teenage Karl Marx a copy of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" to prevent the Communist Manifesto ever being written.

Lincoln Michel

It's kind of remarkable how much some readers HATE reading lol (And if you want an adult fiction about living in trees and anthropomorphic animals try Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber.) https://t.co/Q1SZF2MFI4