Lydia Kiesling Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lydia Kiesling

Hilary Mantel was a genuinely weird and breathtaking prose stylist and the Wolf Hall trilogy lives and breathes and creeps and dances on the page.

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RT @AlexKleeman: For this week’s @nytmag I wrote about actress-director Rebecca Hall and her new adaptation of Nella Larsen’s “Passing,” ou…

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Everybody read The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh and let's reconvene to discuss The Novel and revisit the Moshfegh Bookforum quote

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I'm back to recommend Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything where she explains that people are much more motivated to pull together, sacrifice, & do hard things when they believe the hard things are fairly apportioned. (Also that we have to end extractivism & capitalism) ✈️

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I reviewed Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, a beautiful novel with one of my new favorite fictional narrators https://t.co/YXRSK8gu2R

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Reading Toad by Katherine Dunn (newly surfaced by @naomihuffman) & damn: "I was a great follower of persons. Flex a bicep, and I'd espouse your gospels. Lift an interesting brow and I'd follow you up mountains or sit on wet pavements swilling romance with my diet of river air" 😭 https://t.co/kKrpKEUpy8

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Happy pub day to @omarelakkad! Join me in celebrating his new novel, What Strange Paradise (which today received a complete rave in the NYT--"deserves to be an instant classic" I believe was said) on Zoom at @CommunityBkstr on 7/29! https://t.co/ieIrJlTo9l

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I recently remembered that I wrote an introduction to a new edition of Count Belisarius by Robert Graves during peak pandemic memory-holed time and I hope it's a thing that my kids find someday and are like, huh, mom was always doing a lot of random shit wasn't she

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RT @nichibei: Artist Chanel Miller, author of the award-winning "Know My Name: A Memoir," will speak with novelist, essayist and mental hea…

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Read @vanessa_hua on what it feels like to be pregnant (with twins!!!!) and also read her fantastic novel A River of Stars. https://amp.thecut.com/2018/05/what-does-being-pregnant-feel-like-part-two.html?__twitter_impression=true