Mark Medley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mark Medley

Ghost Story isn’t just one of the great horror novels — it’s a great novel, full-stop. Peter Straub will be read for a long time to come.

Mark Medley

My dad kept a copy of Late Innings on the shelf when I was a kid. I just thought of him as another baseball writer. It was only when I was older that I realized he was THE baseball writer, and so much more. A giant, of baseball and literature. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/sports/roger-angell-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Martin Amis was a giant. Put all his novels, even the lesser books, into a pile and pick one at random and chances are it’s a masterpiece. Money, The Information, London Fields, Time’s Arrow. How old was he when he wrote The Rachel Papers, like 21? What a writer!

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Is @reid_iain Canada’s most successful writer at the moment? “Absolutely not, that’s a horrific thought in a way.” Iain talks to @HertzBarry about his new novel We Spread: https://t.co/srSSNhbZ7E

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Nice to see @jasonmcbride68’s Eat Your Mind praised by @nytimesbooks as “a smart and sympathetic but hardheaded new biography.” https://t.co/Eb38bksk8B

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“I was in my thirties before I ever saw what any of my grandparents looked like.” Powerful essay by @marshalederman on the family stolen from her: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-the-holocaust-took-from-us/ (Buy her new book, Kiss the Red Stairs, today!)

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Mark Medley

Martin Amis was a giant. Put all his novels, even the lesser books, into a pile and pick one at random and chances are it’s a masterpiece. Money, The Information, London Fields, Time’s Arrow. How old was he when he wrote The Rachel Papers, like 21? What a writer!

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I've been looking forward to @elamin88's book, Son of Elsewhere, for years. Very happy we could offer a preview in this weekend's @globeandmail. It's out next week. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-son-of-elsewhere-book-elamin-abdelmahmoud/

Mark Medley

Martin Amis was a giant. Put all his novels, even the lesser books, into a pile and pick one at random and chances are it’s a masterpiece. Money, The Information, London Fields, Time’s Arrow. How old was he when he wrote The Rachel Papers, like 21? What a writer!