Not That John Williams Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Lime Twig
John HawkesNot That John WilliamsThis was great. Will get to others by Gary soon, but for now have picked up "The Lime Twig" by John Hawkes, part of my plan to read more books that I've had lying around forever but not gotten to... https://t.co/lNOeGSeuKN
Paperback, 1961
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Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
Stuart DybekNot That John Williams“We Didn’t” by Stuart Dybek. (Which I read in Best American Short Stories 1994, in 1994, and which I think was consecutive in that anthology with Alice Elliott Dark’s “In the Gloaming”; an insane exacta). https://t.co/E6FEdmJ26P
Paperback, 2003
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamin LabatutNot That John WilliamsOne of my favorite books of 2021 (and of the past several years, really)... anchored in the facts of 20th-century science, but it’s wildly imaginative as well. Mixing truth and fiction, it manages to delight even as it charts the grim Venn diagram of knowledge and madness.
Paperback, 2021
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara KingsolverNot That John Williams"Kingsolver has effectively reignited the moral indignation of the great Victorian novelist to dramatize the horrors of child poverty in the late-20th century." @RonCharles reviews "Demon Copperhead." https://t.co/puWzVTx377
Paperback, 2024
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After Me Comes the Flood
Sarah PerryNot That John Williams@johnlingan All good! Though nothing that's bolting me to the chair, obviously. (Not their fault.) Iris Murdoch's letters, collected Jung, The Employees by Olga Ravn, Exposition by Nathalie Leger, After Me Comes the Flood by Sarah Perry...
Paperback, 2020
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The Book of Job
Stephen MitchellNot That John WilliamsThe Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell and The Book of Job: A Biography by Mark Larrimore is a pairing I heartily recommend.
Paperback, 1994
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
Paul FischerNot That John WilliamsFor this week's podcast I spoke to Hernan Diaz about "Trust," and to Paul Fischer about "The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures." https://t.co/psMQluOJhB
Paperback, 2023
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My Phantoms
Gwendoline RileyNot That John WilliamsAdmired the astringent truth (and very disciplined craft) in Gwendoline Riley's My Phantoms; finally read Christina Stead's classic The Man Who Loved Children; chimed deeply with Gerald Murnane's memoir Something for the Pain.
Paperback, 2022
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Winter
Ali SmithNot That John WilliamsLinked to first review by @jenszalai as a Times staff critic earlier. Great week overall for the brilliant trio. @DwightGarner on Ali Smith's "Winter" http://nyti.ms/2CS5llq and @parul_sehgal on two classic under-read American novels http://nyti.ms/2CNHjrw
Paperback, 2018
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan DiazNot That John WilliamsFor this week's podcast I spoke to Hernan Diaz about "Trust," and to Paul Fischer about "The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures." https://t.co/psMQluOJhB
Paperback, 2023
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