Lisa Thornton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lisa Thornton

@BethanyJarmul I love Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Lisa Thornton

@ashantifortson @Chelsea_Stickle What genre would you assign to Salman Rushdie’s novels like Midnight’s Children and Quichotte? I always thought of them as magical realism but he is not Latin American.

Lisa Thornton

Ernest Hemingway is not the person I expected to relate to the most today but *this* from A Moveable Feast… “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

Lisa Thornton

@LaurieMMarshall You should read The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. I read it for a class while getting a polysci degree and it was life changing. So many probs w communism in its actual lived forms. But so much fascinating meat in its ideas.

Lisa Thornton

A writing instructor noted in the margin of one of my stories that I should read Raymond Carver. Bc I remind her of him I wondered or I should learn from him? I never found out but I am on my second book & cannot get enough. https://t.co/VX9qst13gH

Lisa Thornton

@ashantifortson @Chelsea_Stickle What genre would you assign to Salman Rushdie’s novels like Midnight’s Children and Quichotte? I always thought of them as magical realism but he is not Latin American.

Lisa Thornton

@PSLiterary Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Lisa Thornton

@LaurieMMarshall You should read The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. I read it for a class while getting a polysci degree and it was life changing. So many probs w communism in its actual lived forms. But so much fascinating meat in its ideas.

Lisa Thornton

@amyjccuddy For the Time Being by Annie Dillard