Sleeping, waking, it all collided into one gray, monotonous plane ride through the clouds. This is just a suicidal pact of taking in as many drugs as possible. I just kept waiting for that moment to hit when there would be some introspective insight or some deep connection or moment of realization for the main character. AKA: the point when I realized I do not like this storyline at all. It took me about halfway through the novel to realize there would be nothing new in this novel, just this endless rinse and repeat of self-loathing and drug intake. I also love the witty (and beautiful) American cover of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and I’m always coveting Charles Baxter’s covers, which are usually windows, doors, and rooms in haunting shades of blue and brown.I saw a reviewer mention HBO’s Girls, and I can definitely see fans of the show eating this kind of writing up. features the most beautiful book jacket:ĭutch edition of Lauren Groff’s Matrix. Oops: a Larousse French-English Dictionary from my high school library. …I never returned to the library (mea culpa): The diner scene with James Caan and Tuesday Weld in Michael Mann’s Thief - it’s not a book, but that scene is terrifically written. …has a sex scene that will make you blush: I would love to put that title on every single book of mine and all books really.has the greatest ending:Īlice Munro’s “Friend of My Youth.” The ending comes blitzing in from a slightly sideways place and is both historical and violent and ecstatic. has the best title:īury Me Standing by Isabel Fonseca. Also Susan Minot’s novel Thirty Girls should be a film, I think. Any of the stories would work, but they could also be combined in a kind of Hitchcockian anthology series. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van den Berg. The laughs are sometimes complicated, not all of them politically correct, and many are community-centric. I read in one sitting, it was that good:ĭon Quixote. …I recommend over and over again:Įverything by Alice Munro.shaped my worldview: All of the above have moments of grief that come in stealthily for the undefended parts of the reader. Also the title story in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth. Well, not uncontrollably, but Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows and Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys are two heartbreaking novels that will make anyone cry. Fascinating, absorbing, hard to put down. Can’t explain how it works therapeutically, but it does. The book that… …helped me through a breakup/loss:Īndrew Solomon’s Far from the Tree. 118-119, Prince, and The Great British Baking Show. Likes: Alphabetizing, theater, Brahms intermezzi op. She wanted to be a singer or painter, plays the piano (and owns two) but gave up music when pursuing her MFA at Cornell, and once turned down a 60 Minutes camera crew that wanted her to pose as a welfare couple when she eloped at a county courthouse. Among her students over her decades-long career: Lauren Groff, Emma Straub, Lydia Conklin, and Sidik Fofana. The upstate New York-raised, Nashville-based author won Seventeen’s fiction contest, spending her $500 winnings on books and a stereo worked as a paralegal in Manhattan sold her first collection of stories at 28 while teaching creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction at the American Academy in Berlin in spring 2023 and currently teaches English at Vanderbilt University. The author of four story collections, three other novels, a collection of non-fiction pieces, and a children’s book, she is the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts Award, Rome Prize, and the Rea Award for the Short Story, among others. Everyman’s Library published Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore in 2020, but Moore’s latest, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home (Knopf) is her first novel since 2009.
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