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Marcelin Albert
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
Paris, where he hobnobbed with many other American expatriates, Fitzgerald among them.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
“I might not know your name,” Ma said, taking Zhu’s hand. “But I know who you are.”
Shelley Parker-Chan • She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor Book 1)
Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Jess Walter, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Pynchon, Emma Donoghue, Lloyd Jones, Adam Foulds, Orhan Pamuk, Téa Obreht, and Audrey Niffenegger.
Thomas C Foster • How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Again, I’m picking on Scott for reasons. The same is true of every other essayist I love. Sam Kriss at his best provides catharsis; at his worst, a sense of jaded superiority. Ted Gioia at his best makes me fall in love with art and music as if for the first time; at his worst, like I’m part of a small culturally-literate elite in a crumbling world... See more
Confessions of a Cringe Soy Redditor
watch the romances and comedies of his mind projected onto his face,
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
long poem I love by the Canadian writer Anne Carson, called ‘The Glass Essay’.