Valerie Stivers Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Valerie Stivers

While Edmund Rostand toiled away writing Cyrano de Bergerac, his wife painted the shells of snails red, gold or silver and hid them in the garden, a game to amuse their children and keep them quiet while papa worked. A hard literary-spouse act to follow.

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"Above all, he would keep clear of the maelstrom of sordid work and senseless pleasure in which the average American business man may be said alternately to exist, and which reduce him, naturally, to a rather ragged condition of soul." -- Kate Chopin, Bayou Folk

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Due to my great love of @nyrbclassics I'm going to be on this podcast sometime this summer. Everyone should know about this. @unburiedbooks is reading its way through the entire NYRB library. Here's an episode devoted to Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad. https://t.co/tK14CltyA7

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Coolly graphic, beautifully written book The Nursery by @szilmolnar captures a unique moment-out-of-time in parents' lives. To encounter it in literature was like a weird gift from my own past. @compactmag_

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Heartburn includes sixteen recipes integrated into the narrative and an index at the back listing their page numbers...Ephron’s recipes were fabulous. Almost every dish was either the best version of its kind I’d ever made, or a fresh, simple take on a classic.

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@SNFSchlee @McNallyEditions I just finished this and felt the same way. Also The Feast by Margaret Kennedy is different but just as good.

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On that note, today I am discussing #TheLastWhiteMan by Mohsin Hamid. I picked up Moth Smoke as a free galley almost 20 years ago, and have read every book he’s written.

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@EnlightFundy They discuss this concept in Greek Lessons by Han Kang! Do you have that book?

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I which I find @BretEastonEllis to be a nice guy. Review of his latest novel, The Shards, for @compactmag_ today. @BretEastonEllis https://t.co/kO5vQ2o1W4