Molly Young Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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If I could propose two essential qualities of Dick as a human, they would be cosmic bafflement and heroic hopefulness, both present in Ubik. This is a novel with a long half-life. You may not clock the full effects until you find yourself thinking about it six or 60 months later.

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If I could assign a book to Twitter it would be "The Scarlet Letter" because the B plot is about a guy who is trapped in a rhetorical dungeon of his own making. Here are some other henids:

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just an inspiring quote from a German novel published in 1937, also probably the least significant passage in the entire 816-page book. "Wolf Among Wolves" by Hans Fallada

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Why don't you... Sew PODS OF VANILLA into your coat collar to keep yourself smelling nice — and collect other hot tips about personal grooming from a pair of unrivaled French literary diarists?

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Rigorous fun: a nice description of Barnes the fiction writer. His ambitions expand and contract from novel to novel: some more fun, some more rigorous. “Elizabeth Finch,” though charming, could use a bit more of both.

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Oscar Wilde is one of many authors I self-prescribe whenever my attention span is in smithereens... His aphorisms are mental calisthenics; within a few paragraphs your mind will be back in shape and ready to somersault through jokes, innuendo, barbarism, charisma and destruction.

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Bertino is a very funny writer... Through all of Exit Zero Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician ... Few writers can revolve your mind in the space of four words. Bertino is one of them.

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@rosalyster only 1% relevant to the issue at hand but just chiming in to say that Robert Kolker's book "Hidden Valley Road" IS incredible. it's about a family of 10 children in the 1970s and 6 of them were schizophrenic.

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Carrère’s work revolves around a practice of extreme — deranged, even — candor. ... I would gladly read a hundred pages of Carrère scrutinizing the “huge caverns” of his nostrils, lingering on the way that air prickles and tingles against their walls

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@gerardolsd French Exit by Patrick DeWitt Bel Canto by Ann Patchet The Vices by Lawrence Douglas Swimming Home by Deborah Levy Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski Bad Marie by Marcy Dermansky A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell lmk if you read any! even if you hate 'em! (hopefully you won't)