Xan Brooks Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Really enjoyed speaking to multi-hyphenated Mat Osman backstage, before the Suede gig - & The Ghost Theatre, is just terrific, the most purely enjoyable thing I’ve read so far this year https://t.co/E8BThtcUcw

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On the page, Rushdie’s fairytale of futility feels positively jaunty, very nearly a romp, and it covers the ground at a brisk, steady clip. Victory City folds historical figures in with fictional jokers. It frames its myriad support players in literary medium shot...

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@IrishLitTimes Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy, that magnificent savage of a book. I’m overdue a revisit

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My review of The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy's raging, roiling drunk's lament of a novel. In short, I loved it https://t.co/jgP2a4Lx25

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Jean-Luc Godard. The beginning, the middle & the end of cinema (though not necessarily in that order) https://t.co/WdyMb7KxpD

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@mjohnharrison Robert Stone every time. A Flag For Sunrise by way of Cities of the Red Night.

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The rollicking, ramshackle Cinema Speculation... conducts a personal joyride through [Tarantino's] film education... As with his pictures, it’s garrulous, indulgent and in desperate need of an edit. But it’s also bracing and heartfelt, positively ringing with life.

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My review of Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, which is a fascinating homage to/unpicking of Somerset Maugham’s Malaysian tales https://t.co/2HA3vaEbDr