Michael Zapata Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michael Zapata

In which I gush excitedly about @sschweblin’s masterful novel FEVER DREAM because duh. https://twitter.com/JewishBook/status/1441448091010408453

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@g_e_howard My go to is Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai, in which each story captures a type of interaction (transcendent, nihilist, existential, even lethal) experience with a work of art. It's a goddamn masterpiece.

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@ClaireDederer 47 years old so cheating just a little but Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes is a mindblowing masterpiece that destroys and reinvents storytelling.

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@wastemailing @eddampier @widebutreal Hmm. I like this. And if we open it up to all languages? I might think about Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar, which revolutionized the form in Spanish language lit.

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The Man Who Could Move Clouds has my corazón and I'm mad honored to speak to @ingrid_rojas_c about it on 8/18, 7pm, in person at the gorgeous @BookvillExiles ! "The stories we loved made us indigestible to the pressures of assimilation and erasure." ✊ https://t.co/g2zAUKfwrV

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@AEAkinwumi The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe. Lanark by Alasdair Gray!

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I've finished Compass by Mathias Énard for the second time. It's still breathtaking, a mystery machine, a little melancholy. What other novels exist in this solar system? I need more like this asap.

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@AEAkinwumi The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe. Lanark by Alasdair Gray!

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@KathleenMRooney Agreed. Only really amazing use of chess I’ve read is in EEG by Dasa Drndic (a masterpiece). A chapter chronicles all the killed and disappeared chess players in WWII. Highly recommended.

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Pergentino José, whose recent book Red Ants (trans Thomas Bunstead) is the first literary work in English translation from Sierra Zapotec! Not to be missed! https://t.co/8rnTpUDAdV