Philip Gourevitch Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Philip Gourevitch

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

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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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love that Lenny Kravitz is so into Bulgakov — has the wild "Heart of a Dog,” whose anti-hero is named Polygraph Polygraphovitch, on his current reading pile — and would include Bulgakov with Baldwin and Salinger at his fantasy writers’ dinner https://t.co/n5iBszMApO

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“In my country we have a saying — Mickey Mouse will see you dead.” So says Frank Holliwell, the Yankee anthropologist in Robert Stone’s novel “A Flag For Sunrise.” https://t.co/T9rauqfSsk

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“Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy.” —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

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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.

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just finished the audiobook of Lucinda Williams reading her memoir “Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You” — a raw, often wry reckoning of a great rock n roll life — and now I’m going to miss her voice in my ears cause there’s something about what happens when she talks

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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.

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reading Continental Drift in ‘86 was truly enthralling - and interviewing Russell Banks five years later was one of those occasions that disproved the old saw that meeting the ones you admire will disappoint

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