Music & Literature Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Music & Literature

@coachhousebooks The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien

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"I couldn’t present Dagestan in just one style or in one voice. This is a part of the general polyphony of the novel." Alisa Ganieva on how THE MOUNTAIN AND THE WALL and the surge in nationalism worldwide that has ensued since its publication https://t.co/bSpgXwFFED @DeepVellum

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Eugene Ostashevsky interviews poet Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., whose most recent book SALIENT weaves together scenes from the WWI Battle of Passchendaele with Tibetan Buddhist rituals. It is a song for the dead and the missing. https://t.co/ezHUpqg4Yg @NewDirections

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A 2009 exchange between @Dalkey_Archive publisher John O'Brien and M&L editor Taylor Davis-Van Atta in which many cans of worms are opened, including what Dalkey might be after its founder: https://t.co/etPh20KgLN https://t.co/05K7zoQtzx

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Tomorrow, celebrate the US publication of MR BEETHOVEN by Paul Griffiths (@disgwylfa), "a riddling, playful, and often very funny investigation of literary form." Here's your primer from Jon Day: https://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2020/6/29/paul-griffithss-mr-beethoven @nyrbclassics