Paul Demko Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Paul Demko

“One morning, the couple woke to find James Dickey, best known for his novel Deliverance, drinking beer on a stool in their kitchen while regaling their son, then in his single digits, with heaven knows what kind of stories while the boy ate his breakfast” https://t.co/sjjbOm4P9t

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“March 9: [Arthur Miller at the Y.] Pompous, old, overrated bore. He read from his memoirs (I counted 3 grammatical errors) & had the dumb audience eating out of his hand.”

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John McPhee recounting, in Draft No. 4, his doomed effort to get a profane quote from a sailor into The New Yorker is delightful. https://t.co/6Nl6GzQC6h

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“The ballot measures are our only pathway to change the national narrative,” said Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage. “When D.C. does this, it will prove to all of these stupid East Coast states like New York that restaurants don’t fall apart.”https://t.co/6TA8yoSmuQ

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@DJJasonNagel @jodiwilldare Just finished a weird, wonderful Lina Wolff novel — Carnality. Nuns, murder, infidelity, Alzheimer’s, illicit organ trade, etc.

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“I’m about out of room here. McCarthy obsessives will chide me for leaving things out, like the scene in ‘Suttree’ in which a man has sexual relations with nearly the entire crop of one poor farmer’s watermelon field.”https://t.co/4LeTL8TUEN

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Dug into Tom Piazza’s Katrina novel City of Refuge this weekend, and am finding it thoroughly engrossing. The Craig Donaldson character must be based on @m_tisserand.

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“The team leaned on several real books for inspiration, including L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which laid the foundation for Scientology, & self-help titles by Tony Robbins, whose face often appears on his books’ covers”https://t.co/4Nn5G0Unqi

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