Victor LaValle Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@rachsyme Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner.

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Zora Neale Hurston *demolishing* Alain Locke after he panned Their Eyes Were Watching God is a masterpiece. From: You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays. https://t.co/QbNQRDa8t0

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We were so lucky to have Micaela’s covers in every issue of Destroyer. Check out this thread of her brilliant art. https://twitter.com/DawnMicaela/status/1460427807960363009

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Choosing to celebrate the good things when they arise. Debut novel alert. MIRROR MADE OF RAIN by @NaheedPhiroze Funny, heart wrenching, complex and elegantly written. A book that should be celebrated and widely read. https://twitter.com/unnamedpress/status/1526560166509944832

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Such a pleasure talking with Maris about Lone Women, American history and Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, too. https://t.co/ccikc52par

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The paperback for Mat Johnson’s INVISIBLE THINGS drops today. Come see him @booksaremagicbk in two weeks. I will be dropping rose petals at his feet as he approaches the mic. https://t.co/OCv4LYJPoR

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Happy pub day to two writers I admire so much. Picked up my copies today. THE STRANGE by Nathan Ballingrud & THE UNDERTOW by Jeff Sharlet. Pick them both up! @NBallingrud @JeffSharlet https://t.co/rvL8VHp16B

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I’ve never had a book published as a paperback first *and then* published as a hardcover. Til now. THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM Gorgeous hardcover with a brand new afterword. https://t.co/YB6mcq1RUk

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I’m thrilled, and moved, when writers spend time writing about work... Stewart O’Nan’s “Last Night at the Lobster” is a book I teach regularly for the way he makes work (at a Red Lobster that’s closing down) into something grand and insightful.

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I will say not enough people have heard of it: “Corregidora,” by Gayl Jones. A masterpiece.