Lucas Mann Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lucas Mann

for fans of: parenthood, experimental essays, Marilynne Robinson, Julien Baker, The National, icelandic conceptual artist ragnar kjartansson, hearing weird noises in sound machines, Mary Gaitskill, awkward teaching moments, ummm sure im forgetting some

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wait is this the plot of Mona Awad's Bunny? My kid was like three months when I read it so if I just stole the premise entirely plz forgive me Mona i was basically in a fugue state

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Sequel to The Family Stone where SJP clumsily tries to impress Diane Keaton with a story about donating a kidney and Rachel McAdams steals that for her writing called THE KIDNEY STONE wow i've done it!

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It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough. — John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

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Beatrix Potter, Maurice Sendak, Bruno Bettelheim, Finding Dory, Elizabeth Rush’s Rising, John Audobon, Bambi, Marc Bekoff, the New Bedford whaling museum, Zoobooks, Stellaluna, John Berger, Elena Passarello, Banshees of Inisherin, LYLE LYLE CROCODILE, Hal Herzog, Werner Herzog

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@SarahViren Oh and the AMAZING novel Oreo, by Fran Ross!

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Feels like the there will be bad essays about Joan Didion’s death take is…yet another predictable way to not talk about her genius on the day she died and would we do that for literally any other American master?

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i am once again tweeting that the velveteen rabbit goes so fucking hard like damn margery williams you didn't have to do it like that

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@JenLouiseWilson Just finished @sasha_fletcher BE HERE TO LOVE ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD — wonderful and debt filled!

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@jaycaspiankang Slouching toward Bethlehem for sure…also (for a different kind of nonfiction) Maggie Nelson’s Bluets influenced a lot…McPhee still Carrie’s a ton of influence too, just in sheer amount of being taught

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