Walter Robinson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Adapted from The Artist’s Studio: A Cultural History by James Hall

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“I was not the mouse, I was the cheese.” - a line from the sexy book-in-a-book in “Verity” by Coleen Hoover, the new DIY midlist superstar with four books on the best-seller list.

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“Joan Didion: What She Means,” curated by Hilton Als, presents 200+ works by ca 50 artists in “an exhibition as portrait,” opening Oct 11 at the Hammer in LA. https://t.co/EzApvfRSIH

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Things “once everyday and now rare because it never occurred to anyone to save them … tiny mementos that outlived the reasons for their aura.” - Lucy Sante on Hua Hsu “Stay True” in the NYRB

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“Why can’t more fiction be like The Nutcracker? Why can’t more authors just abandon their lumbering storylines halfway through and move on to something more interesting, like dancing candy?” -Amy Fusselman, Idiophone (2018)

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Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, a Biography, 1940

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“…as if I were a common idiot or gambler! That journalist must be possessed to think such a thing! The inspector inwardly congratulated himself. He had managed to utter a statement using only titles of novels by Dostoyevsky.” -Montalbano in The Potter’s Field by Andrea Camilleri

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His conversational prose style, which can impart the treacherous delusion that you, reader, might also become a famous novelist if you simply typed up 100% of your internal monologue and hit spellcheck. -Molly Young on Emmanuel Carrère’s “Yoga” in the NYT

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“political ideology is unequal to the task of apprehending the complexity and variety of lived experience,” and how, in dispiriting fashion, “capitalism will always recuperate separatist intellectual movements” - Hugh Wilford on Mary McCarthy’s “The Oasis” (1949)

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Baby where’d you learn to give blowjobs, Sotheby’s? - Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis