Michael Schaub Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michael Schaub

YZ Chin's "Edge Case" is a smart, beautiful debut novel. I wrote about it for @nprbooks: https://t.co/UJfPr0vYbk

Michael Schaub

What does it mean to be Latino? [Tobar] considers the question in his latest... An essay collection with elements of memoir, this book is brilliantly structured and filled with Tobar’s illuminating insights – it’s a must-read for anyone interested in what makes America what it is.

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Michael Schaub

Kelly Link's "White Cat, Black Dog" is a brilliant short story collection that's so much fun to read. I wrote about it for the Boston Globe: https://t.co/tUTnrySZtU

Michael Schaub

Both funny and heartbreaking... Wellness is a perfect novel for our age, filled with a deep awareness of the Internet-poisoned, marketing-driven engineered emptiness of modern times, but also a compassionate optimism about our ability to find and maintain love nonetheless.

Michael Schaub

Stovall doesn't fill the book with name-dropping or long discourses on music; she conveys the essence of punk and emo through the prose itself. This is an excellent novel, compassionate and filled with a sparkling intelligence about the human condition.

Michael Schaub

RT @byron_queen: found my high school copy of Dante’s Inferno the other day and as you can see i was quite the young scholar https://t.co/V…

Michael Schaub

Olaf Olafsson's "Touch" is a really beautiful novel set in Iceland and Japan during the first days of the Covid pandemic. I wrote about it for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: https://t.co/nPsQkuNryL

Michael Schaub

Talty's prose is flawless ... 'Night of the Living Rez' is a shockingly strong debut, sure, but it's also a masterwork by a major talent.

Michael Schaub

John, one of the protagonists of … “The New Life,” is a gay man living in mid-1890s England, married to a woman, suffocating under the weight of the unhappy life he’s been forced to lead. He’s a memorable character in a literary debut that’s nothing less than remarkable.

Michael Schaub

One of the best books about anxiety that I’ve ever read. What a great choice.