Marion Winik Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Marion Winik

Masterful... The momentum of the novel builds as long-held misunderstandings and resentments come to the surface, illuminating the meaning of what it means to be a mother, and a son, and culminating with a great sense of a weight lifted, of lightness and air.

Marion Winik

@lauriemuchnick memoirs and autofiction read by the author are powerful. just listened to this body i wore, by diana groetsch. looking forward to hearing @elizmccracken read the hero of this book. both of the ayad akhtar novels -- american dervish and homeland elegies -- are beyond incredible.

Marion Winik

A hot summer is taking its toll on Bea, an art gallery owner whose recently empty nest has exposed a shaky marriage…She’s not a thief, exactly—well, there is that one designer dress—but she does tend to leave her mark. Surely the most interesting midlife crisis of the year.

Marion Winik

Hurston was obsessed with the Bible and driven to re-invent it through historical fiction... this detailed, revolutionary rethinking of Herod, present[s] a man usually seen as one of the bloodiest villains in the Bible as a charismatic ruler who led his people toward peace and prosperity.

Marion Winik

Palestinian-American playwright Shamieh makes her wonderfully brash and sparkling fiction debut with this novel of three generations... Funny, sexy, and often furious, this book fills in gaps in our understanding.

Marion Winik

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, two new novels that are meditations on love and loss. Marion Winik reviews Brood by Jackie Polzin and Edie Richter is Not Alone by Rebecca Handler https://omny.fm/shows/the-weekly-reader/books-about-the-blues-part-1 @unnamedpress @doubledaybooks

Marion Winik

What is more fun than a new novel from this wildly imaginative and reliably hilarious author? This time, she’s got a couple of billionaires celebrating their anniversary with a balloon ride crash... You’ve never seen “the rich are different than you and me” ...done quite like this

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On the Weekly Reader: @cathyparkhong Minor Feelings, to which I just had the pleasure of awarding the NBCC autobiography prize, and Roberto Lovato's excellent Unforgetting. @WYPR881FM @LisaMorGold https://t.co/oQAD1z1Tt7 @HarperCollins @WYPR881FM @oneworldbooks

Marion Winik

There is often real wisdom at the heart of Sittenfeld’s stories, and it’s not wisdom you have to dig to find — it’s direct and plainly stated. As the old commercial used to say: Try it, you’ll like it.

Marion Winik

A big, juicy, wickedly funny social satire... probably the funniest book ever about generational family trauma.