Siddhartha Mahanta Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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randomly recalling how much Akhil Sharma’s “Family Life” wrecked me

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" The funny thing about “Biography of a Phantom” is, after you wade through the trigger warnings, how earnest and low-key and appealing McCormick’s manuscript is." https://t.co/qs9ik2R2NO

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@justin_fenton's 'We Own This City'* is a master class in super tight, enraging, rivetingly paced narrative writing. Dude gets right into and dares you to put the dang thing down. *late to it I know...

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in awe of this @xtinesmallwood graf https://t.co/QSyOdxj6kJ https://t.co/ftbC3wRleN

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“ … outside each apartment is an illuminated glass box that residents and family can fill with mementos. In Hurt’s, Schrader has put a Playbill from the 1996 revival of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance signed by the rest of the cast.” https://t.co/7MLTToDg6V

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Highly highly recommend Bass’s ‘The Blood Telegram’

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"Again and again through the book, this altogether exceptional individual, so striking both in his looks and in the force of his personality, confesses to feeling unremarkable—ordinary, as the title has it." https://t.co/6UuxkgGX17

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As I recall, it prominently featured @vali_nasr, who'd just recently published 'The Shia Revival,' a book I quickly gobbled up.

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The Lads love eight things: defending our democratic integrity, drinking martinis at the Rialto Grande, geeking out over Frank Herbert's 'Dune,' chortling at online charlatans, housing bags of Takis Fuego, kissing Buck Showalter, getting furious about empire, & calling me hot.