Philip Gourevitch Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Philip Gourevitch

— William Carlos Williams, “The Doctor Stories" https://t.co/hMYOJ2pQf5 https://t.co/lBkEkxbPXg

Philip Gourevitch

really enjoyed talking to @NathanielRich here about his terrific, thought-provoking new book: Second Nature https://t.co/H63DwB6MiW

Philip Gourevitch

if I read this without a byline and had to guess who wrote it I’d be at least as likely to say Charles Portis (especially the dialogue) as CM Book Excerpt: ‘The Passenger,’ Cormac McCarthy’s First Novel in 16 Years - The New York Times https://t.co/cbetHDisn4

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Yea! Congratulations to the great Damon Galgut for winning the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Promise - his third book to be short-listed for it.

Philip Gourevitch

really interesting @CamhiLeslie piece on Anne Berest and her novel, “The Postcard,” which "leaves us wondering whether the opposite of memory is not forgetting, but rather indifference." https://t.co/fIowQsQ6de

Philip Gourevitch

great t see this @newshour profile of the excellent @keribla, her memoir of figure skating, heroin, Cornell, and prison — “Corrections in Ink” — & her crucial ongoing reporting on prison life…nice to see @cltomlinson in the mix too https://t.co/j5ZNR5oOfQ

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Great to get @evefairbanks new book, The Inheritors - it’s terrific, as I and others attest on its handsome jacket https://t.co/tBpfjfCJWp

Philip Gourevitch

keep thinking of Svetlana Alexievich’s great book Boys in Zinc (aka Zinky Boys) about Russian debacle in Afghanistan, told through voices of Russian conscripts and of their mothers trying to find and bring them home — zinc was the material used for soviet military coffins https://t.co/rBXpebuCae

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Absurd that @audible_com or whoever produced the audiobook of Emmanuel Carrère’s “Yoga” couldn’t get a reader who didn’t butcher pronunciation of French words & names. An American accent would be fine but this guy has invented an accent & phonics unrelated to any known language.

Philip Gourevitch

“shamelessness, shame; the roots of violence” — Salman Rushdie