Ron Hogan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Including a sneak peek at the cover to ALL WHO ARE WEARY, the second @emmykegler book, which comes out this fall! https://t.co/kg7qWcdEaQ

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It’s been a while since I’ve reread Robert Anton Wilson’s nonfiction, so I have no idea how his “quantum psychology” (which was heavily influenced by Timothy Leary) holds up to forty years of new developments in neuroscience. But he offers a useful framework for true skepticism.

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@waxpoetics @EarlOfEdgecombe Glimpses, by Lewis Shiner. I’d have to think a while on the nonfiction front.

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At the beginning of March, @GraywolfPress published a new novel from Deb Olin Unferth, BARN 8, and I’m biased, but if this excerpt is anything to go by, it’s not just her best work yet, it might be her breakout book. I can’t wait to read it all. https://t.co/4z8LTL2gif

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Dear IMDB, “Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson also starred together in In Bruges (2008), also directed by Martin McDonagh” is a terrible trivia item. In fact, it isn’t even trivia.

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There’s a passage in Our Endless and Proper Work where I mention the “wild and precious life” line is the most recognizable bit from Mary Oliver’s poems, but I’d like to highlight “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” Ladies and gentlemen, we have a title! https://t.co/nQvl6XQ0lS

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Delighted to see A LADY FOR A DUKE on this list, because it’s an absolutely amazing historical romance, and if you haven’t read it all the other times I’ve told you read it, I hope Maureen might convince you. https://t.co/HdCiWZvM8P

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@cmclymer I mean, yeah, there’s a good case for Moore, but at the same time it’s hard to argue against Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter on merit, AND Loretta Lynn was exactly the sort of triumph over adversity story the modern Academy loves to reward.

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I just got an email from Peacock announcing the Firestarter remake is online now, which, yay, but then they went on to say “and we have a bunch of other Stephen King films, too,” and I can’t figure out why anyone would BRAG about having Needful Things available for streaming.

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I stumbled upon Vincent Price’s memoir, I Like What I Know, in the art biography section of my college library and was riveted; a few years later, I tracked down my own copy. To this day, it’s one of my favorite books (although the cookbook he did with his wife comes close). https://t.co/Z2Cj6WOvhY