richard scott larson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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GREY BEES by Andrey Kurkov (trans. @BorisDralyuk) is essential reading; here's an excerpt from the beginning, but the second half is an odyssey through the borderlands and is an absolute marvel https://t.co/KKNfS5uOr5

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"[I]t seemed to me that so many of these writers were trying to understand something in their life and make it into art, to transform it into something that would last." @JoannaBiggs https://t.co/QgqcvLoMXG

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"A moral education depends not on condemning or averting our gaze from filth, [Philip Roth's SABBATH'S THEATER] suggests, but on diving wholeheartedly into it." @GarthGreenwell https://t.co/TLgqEyho1D

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"In the radical honesty of an Ernaux book, the self is the home of shame and desire. Both have the same terminus, death. It is not the case that writing, for Ernaux, forestalls death. Writing simply creates another person, a past self..." https://t.co/yvQZKIDee1

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Hermione Lee spends several pages on this story in her biography of Willa Cather, so I checked it out and now I cannot continue with my day because it's just so incredibly good https://t.co/q4jfVS7mUI

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I started reading the epic volume of Herve Guibert’s journals at MacDowell and I’m still savoring them slowly because his voice sends me straight back to my studio, reading alone by the fireplace while the snow falls

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Dante’s Inferno in the form of an ancient well in Sintra: 7 meters deeper for each of heaven, earth, and purgatory. We ended the descent in a wet cave full of other tourists with cameras sprouting from their bodies like uncontrollable appendages so I see what Dante did there. https://t.co/B0YqXREgzN

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I bought almost all of these books immediately after reading this list from @_catherinelacey https://t.co/jRWqgruGRR

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Peter Straub was one of the greats. I'll never forget my first read of GHOST STORY as a kid and how much it taught me about what fiction could do. It's a comfort that he left behind so many great books to treasure.

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"Writing itself—what we put into the world—is the source of horror. Just doing it makes you guilty of something." https://t.co/CLuKwvAdcA