Sarah Churchwell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sarah Churchwell

I wrote a book about 1922 as the year of The Great Gatsby, focusing on Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in New York that year. Research for it had me in 1922 newspapers for a long time, and verily the past is not always another country.

Sarah Churchwell

These ideas soon became ubiquitous, and in that sense it doesn't matter who originated them. One of the many who encountered them was a young F. Scott Fitzgerald; they are the background for Tom Buchanan's racist diatribe at the start of The Great Gatsby, as I also explained. 7 https://t.co/mXUKWXzUAb

Sarah Churchwell

@AdamRutherford Hans Christian Andersen sadistically tortures and kills the heroines of his “fairy tales” and then sends them to heaven and calls it a happy ending, pass it on

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I wrote a thing about America and guns, and then Monterey Park happened. We updated it today to include this latest senseless tragedy. The myth of America’s love affair with guns - New Statesman https://t.co/ShXrKffBLI

Sarah Churchwell

Books like: Einstein’s Theory of Special & General Relativity Darwin’s Origin of Species The Great Gatsby 1984 All Quiet on the Western Front Kafka’s Metamorphosis Madame Bovary Huckleberry Finn (first banned not because of race but because it was vulgar). And on and on and on

Sarah Churchwell

@holland_tom And reconstruction, Jim Crow, the carceral state, voting rights, Walter Scott, a bit on American fascism, and what else? We went well beyond fiddle dee dee…

Sarah Churchwell

These ideas soon became ubiquitous, and in that sense it doesn't matter who originated them. One of the many who encountered them was a young F. Scott Fitzgerald; they are the background for Tom Buchanan's racist diatribe at the start of The Great Gatsby, as I also explained. 7 https://t.co/mXUKWXzUAb

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Meanwhile the kidney story, a supposedly serious piece about literature and power, describes female students as "cooing over Marilynne Robinson’s novel ‘Housekeeping.’” Excuse me if I stop cooing long enough to say fuck right off.

Sarah Churchwell

All the praise is hugely deserved: The Facemaker is original, enlightening and inspiring, and reframed my assumptions about the obvious consequences of the carnage of WWI. Highly recommended. https://twitter.com/DrLindseyFitz/status/1535631974907490305

Sarah Churchwell

Some exciting news I can share at last: my first book, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, has been adapted into a 4-part documentary by @CNN, narrated by Jessica Chastain (🤩)! The first ep drops this Sunday 16 Jan in the US. More info 👇@BloomsburyBooks https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2022/01/05/cnn-original-series-reframes-marilyn-monroe-through-female-lens-in-four-part-docuseries-debuting-jan-16-at-9pm-et/ https://t.co/vPlRAj8vDn