Sophie Haigney Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Sophie Haigney is an essayist, critic, and editor. Web editor @parisreview / writing a book about collections

Beat Writers at Work: The Paris Review
George Plimpton
"Finally a publication that's good enough for me" - @themjeans reading The Paris Review 💚 https://t.co/1DkVtpwYOD
Paperback, 1999
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Stoner
John Williams
I was totally absorbed in this quiet portrait of one man’s consciousness, from cradle to grave—there’s no other book quite like it, is there?... I will never forget my favorite sentence: “And so he had his love affair.”
Paperback, 2006
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Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Norman Rush
“The utopia of equal love” between equals is possible desirable and difficult and this novel doesn’t insult its readers’ intelligences about any of this, and for this we adore it!
Paperback, 1992
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Either/Or
Elif Batuman
For @newrepublic, I reviewed Elif Batuman’s new book and considered the question: Do people have to fall in love and have sex for a novel to work?
Paperback, 2023
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Ghosts
Edith Wharton
Trying to figure out how to explain to people that I am not “a ghost” for Halloween but rather…Edith Wharton’s “Ghosts”
Paperback, 2021
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The Mother's Recompense: Large Print
Edith Wharton
A good book to read in November is The Mother’s Recompense by Edith Wharton
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Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux
We have a new magazine! Darryl Pinckney interviews Jamaica Kincaid! Annie Ernaux’s diary of the affair that inspired Simple Passion!!! https://t.co/PSWJTlS1cC
Paperback, 2003
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Late in the Day
Tessa Hadley
@Kaitlin_M_Ruiz Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley!
Paperback, 2023
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Couplets: A Love Story
Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner reading Middlemarch in a bar 💕(from “Couplets”) https://t.co/IbvDv6ImmL
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Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
The similarities btwn the last lines of Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Norman Rush's Mating (“come and get me”/“je viens. why not?)...really something to think of about....
Paperback, 2018
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