Mark Athitakis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mark Athitakis

The NYT's twist is that you can pick books you read in college, like "Ulysses," or sops to the adult reader who keeps up (Yanagihara, Doerr). But if "Mockingbird" doesn't win, I'll force myself to finish "All the Light We Cannot See," because what punishment would be worse?

Mark Athitakis

@chrisvognar Greil Marcus's book on the Doors is an interesting if not entirely persuasive attempt to give them more of their due. (He focuses more on live albums.)

Mark Athitakis

Sexton wants to deliver the warmth of a family saga with an overall mood of uplift, but she also seeks to write a novel about a neighborhood in crisis and what it means to try to chase your dreams when a wrecking ball is swinging right toward them.

Mark Athitakis

What Powers’ epic, Pulitzer-winning 2018 novel, 'The Overstory,' did for forests, this novel does for oceans... Booker Prize finalist 'Playground' demonstrates how he’s sharpened both his intellectual interests with a knack for lively and optimistic storytelling.

Mark Athitakis

The only NBA finalist I've read is Imani Perry's "South to America," but it's a good one. My review at @On_The_Seawall: https://t.co/LLegF4Rq4x

Mark Athitakis

Stephen Markley’s new novel is part thriller, part horror, part all-too-real. It’s scary, instructive and also entertaining... Markley is so gifted at imagining catastrophe that “The Deluge” generates the same kind of guilt you might feel watching a disaster movie...

Mark Athitakis

A breezy retro novel with bite... set in Laurel Canyon between the mid-’60s and mid-’70s. It’s a perfect place and time for a novelist looking to establish a tense atmosphere: The dreamy, free-love atmosphere slowly curdled into hard drugs and the Manson murders.

Mark Athitakis

@JeffreyInsko I wrote a little book with a bunch of suggestions, but for whatever reason the first that springs to mind is William McPherson's "Testing the Current," a great coming-of-age novel set in upper Michigan. https://t.co/Ayl8WvBXFa

Mark Athitakis

Sorry to learn that Robert Goolrick has died. A fine writer---"A Reliable Wife" is an excellent Midwestern gothic story. https://t.co/XkmrA4cGC8

Out of stock

Mark Athitakis

Elliot Ackerman's latest novel, a rollicking military-adjacent adventure, also shows just how corrupting a world full of crumbling democracies can be... Sheepdogs thrives in exposing the moral uncertainty of this new world order.