Rhian Sasseen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rhian Sasseen

@ToTheHappyNone Fiction-wise: The Woman Destroyed or The Mandarins. Her road journal America Day by Day is super fun + insightful (lots of Partisan Review gossip). Also, a great biography of her is Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick.

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For @thenation, I wrote about Jana Prikryl’s new poetry collection Midwood, and its language of travel, motion, and delay. https://t.co/VMGqIpj1NY

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Thrilled to see that an essay I wrote last year for @thebafflermag, on the cult Japanese sci-fi writer Izumi Suzuki and her first work to be translated into English, the short story collection Terminal Boredom, is now online: https://t.co/QJvJyexgzT

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For @thebafflermag, I wrote about Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, which I didn't love, and also the question of political art, which I love very much. https://t.co/mAEr3Se32r

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“I HATE IT I LOVE IT I HATE IT I DON’T KNOW” Max Frisch on New York (from Drafts for a Third Sketchbook, translated by Mike Mitchell) https://t.co/Y2WSNWdQwa

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I’ve been thinking about this passage from Deborah Levy’s The Man Who Saw Everything these last few days, about a character born in 1989 and the hope that for my generation, the violences of the 20th century would not repeat. “Would that be a lie or would it be the truth?” https://t.co/nFxD42MzWE

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From the beginning note of Yevgenia Belorusets’s Lucky Breaks (translated by Eugene Ostashevsky) https://t.co/0PCRUswVor

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@ajbwells I find a lot of Dubravka Ugresic’s essays to often be darkly funny… Gabriela Wiener’s Sexographies is also pretty humorous, from what I remember. And Maeve Brennan’s The Long-Winded Lady columns from The New Yorker.

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This frenetic novel, first acquired by Toni Morrison and published in 1983, has become something of a cult classic, and it’s easy to understand why: It approaches relationships with raw and unvarnished honesty... [A] sharp, fast-paced look at the highs and lows of the human heart.

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From Alain Mabanckou’s As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth (translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson) https://t.co/z2h3K84CAb

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