Steve Mitchell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Steve Mitchell

1/ The Sentence – Louise Erdrich A novel full of incident taking place partly at the height of COVID and the George Floyd protests. Centered on a bookstore and a bookstore ghost, Erdrich explores the fragility of the boundaries we cling to in order to survive: those separating https://t.co/eoMl0CWJEH

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1/ Winter in Sokcho – Elisa Shua Dusapin A spare, tightly focused novel of inner transience—the way emotions drift and build, changing shape, contradicting themselves, within us. Told in gestures, phrases, and incomplete actions, it’s as stunning for what isn’t on the page as https://t.co/fmSahDNMcx

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1/ I Am the Light of this World – Michael Parker Reminiscent of Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son, Parker’s novel follows Earl, a seventeen-year-old in backwoods Texas, an American Innocent, and his fall from an uneasy—possibly imaginary—grace. This is a vibe novel, where the juice and https://t.co/9FSTtzSpa6

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1/ When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamin Labatut Labatut fictionally recreates the inspiration, obsession, and years of work of the men who essentially invented quantum physics in the early Twentieth Century. Along the way, he lucidly explains what these theories are https://t.co/a01BfwY53o

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1/ Seduced by Story – The Use and Abuse of Narrative – Peter Brooks Brooks’ book contemplates not the predominance of ‘story’ in our culture—airlines have a ‘story’, perfumes have a ‘story’—but what narrative actually is, and how it functions. He mentions the current dominance https://t.co/BBinljGbBz

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Yesterday, I moderated a fascinating conversation on memoir between Ginger Gaffney (Half Broke) and @JamesTateHill (upcoming Blind Man's Bluff) for @GreensboroBound . Won't be available until May, but you'll love it. Both books @wwnorton Read these books!

Steve Mitchell

Yesterday, I moderated a fascinating conversation on memoir between Ginger Gaffney (Half Broke) and @JamesTateHill (upcoming Blind Man's Bluff) for @GreensboroBound . Won't be available until May, but you'll love it. Both books @wwnorton Read these books!

Steve Mitchell

1/ The Books of Jacob – Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft In 19th Century Poland, Jacob Frank shows up in a village as a Jewish prophet who eventually proclaims himself a Messiah, urging his followers to abandon their Jewish faith and traditions because ‘the new world https://t.co/yoOMR7CZEA

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1/ Where All Light Tends to Go – David Joy An Appalachian noir about people who have, or believe they have, no means of escape; the sense of captivity pervades a book that is never sentimental, yet captures a flickering hope too far away to be grasped yet close enough to make https://t.co/V2eBzspixa