Rachel Donadio Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rachel Donadio

🇫🇷 Thrilled that THE PLATEAU, by Maggie Paxon, has won the 2020 @amerlibparis Book Award! A beautiful book about why some communities are open and others closed, some people good and others not With my fellow book prize jurors @jakelamar & Ethan Katz https://t.co/WUvd91Knzi

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1. Deborah Levy is a British writer who should be much, much, much better known in the U.S. I've reviewed her latest and most stylistically complex novel novel, THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING, which is terrific. https://t.co/HU9YvDbeTW

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🇫🇷🇺🇦 Elysée: At his behest, @EmmanuelMacron had a long call today with Nobel laureate writer Svetlana Alexievich, "a great figure of European humanism." Her oral histories of the Soviet & post-Soviet world, especially SECONDHAND TIME, are must reads. https://t.co/EZwaknAZ7x

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Today at 19h30 Paris time I'll be interviewing @nogaarikha at the @amerlibparis about her book THE CEILING OUTSIDE, which weaves together visits to a Paris neuropsychiatry ward with an account of her poet mother's dementia. Also on Zoom, signup here: https://t.co/sKSNMSHEvc

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🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 This is a smart @DouthatNYT piece Also I highly recommend the late Tony Judt on the rise of nationalism & ethno-nationalism in Eastern Europe post-1989 and the EU's struggles to define itself. His A GRAND ILLUSION is an excellent short primer. https://t.co/gt817UFKFS

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💡I cannot wait to read @AlecMacGillis' FULFILLMENT, about @amazon and regional economic inequality in 🇺🇸. @fsgbooks Alec is one of the smartest, most dogged and most prolific journalists working today. He has a cool head but a burning moral clarity 🔥 https://t.co/n5Ic0f4aym

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🇫🇷📚 Félicitations to the @amerlibparis 2022 Book Award shortlist! Amanda Bestor-Siegal /THE CARETAKERS Maud Casey / CITY OF INCURABLE WOMEN J.P. Daughton / IN THE FOREST OF NO JOY Graham Robb / FRANCE: AN ADVENTURE HISTORY Peter Watson / THE FRENCH MIND Winner revealed in Nov https://t.co/wW5mFjgbgh

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🕯️ In 2005 I profiled Joan Didion, a heroine of mine, for THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING @nytimes We met 2 wks after her daughter's death, just after Hurricane Katrina A source gave me this speech of hers, which I've never seen reprinted elsewhere. RIP https://t.co/E5jxmvkGy2 https://t.co/xg4gBAIgah

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🇫🇷📚 2021 winner is: Sudhir Hazareesingh's BLACK SPARTACUS: The Epic life of Toussaint Louverture 2021 Jurors were @laurenzcollins, Julian Jackson, Dinaw Mengestu, Maggie Paxon, whose THE PLATEAU won in 2020 Past @amerlibparis Book Award winners here: https://t.co/TpRnrMe03u

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🇺🇦🇮🇸 Wow this story of how a founder of Pussy Riot escaped from 🇷🇺 via Belarus and Lithuania to Iceland — with key help by fab Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson. A highly successful work of political performance art. @VALERIEinNYT @MishaFriedman https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/world/europe/pussy-riot-russia-escape.html