Matthew Shaer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Matthew Shaer

.@GQMagazine asked a bunch of writers to help choose the best literary nonfiction books of this century. Which allowed me to recommend "One of Us," by Åsne Seierstad, one of the most daring, psychologically-insightful pieces of journalism I've ever read: https://t.co/la4dCXAENW

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If you've ever had the unnerving sensation that everything around you seems to be falling apart – and fast – you're going to want to read @juliettekayyem's new book, THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS, which is out later this month. The Atlantic has an excerpt here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-management-onagawa/627070/

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@lizzieohreally @WillTrentABC Exactly. Not coincidentally, that book shares a lot of themes with the only detective novel I’ve had to put down in the last few years. Have you heard of Lazarus, by Lars Kepler?

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Friends - I’m ISO of a novel in what I’m going to call the “new gothic” genre. Family secrets, family castles, half-human creatures scratching at the door. EG: “The Ancestor,” by @DaniTrussoni “Drood,” by @MadDanWrites “The Historian,” by Elizabeth Kostova Suggestions?

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Alright Book Twitter, help me out. I’m looking for a new novel to read in the mold of “Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer, or Updike’s Bech series, or “Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie. A too-overly-dour novel, in other words, about being an academic or a writer or a creator

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