Sandra Newman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sandra Newman

Blue Ruin is bracingly intelligent and often just plain beautiful. It’s a reminder that fiction, at its best, is a place to encounter new experiences... Kunzru is known for ambitious novels that bring politics to rich, imaginative life; Blue Ruin shows him at the top of his game.

Sandra Newman

Really delighted with this review of The Men from the great Nina Allan, whose amazing books The Rift and The Race were influences on it (which she would have no way of knowing, tbc, it just struck me that this is the case) https://t.co/5KI4IrdHJf

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Sandra Newman

Really delighted with this review of The Men from the great Nina Allan, whose amazing books The Rift and The Race were influences on it (which she would have no way of knowing, tbc, it just struck me that this is the case) https://t.co/5KI4IrdHJf

Sandra Newman

@nnnnnicolas This is brilliantly discussed in David Graeber's BULLSHIT JOBS, which is a really fun and fascinating read in general. Any job that has some purpose is less emotionally wearing, even if it's badly paid and exhausting and dangerous.

Sandra Newman

A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O'Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce... inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence.

Sandra Newman

"The fight was later used as evidence in his case against Dennis Hopper, who claimed Rip attacked him with a knife … Rip won his case on the claim that 'he could not have possibly killed Hopper as he was, at the time, on the set of Maidstone trying to kill Norman Mailer.'"

Sandra Newman

I couldn't sleep that night and stayed up all night reading London Fields by Martin Amis. I still dislike Martin Amis's writing with the bleakness I felt for the frightened burglar and the gun and the heroin and the insomnia.

Sandra Newman

Book recommendation: @AdamOPrice's THE HOTEL NEVERSINK. A madly inventive novel that follows a mysterious series of murders through several generations of a family who own and run a Borscht Belt resort. Just the coolest book I've read in a long time. https://tinhouse.com/book/the-hotel-neversink/

Sandra Newman

Might fuck around and tweet out my "Top two Harper Lee novels" with Go Set a Watchman at number one. See if the fish are biting today

Sandra Newman

Working on my Orwell book and I'm increasingly haunted by the thought that Room 101 is actually an introductory course about rooms