![]() ![]() PEN America, which is devoted to protecting free literary expression in the United States and worldwide and has never been more needed than it is now. The literary organization/charity I support: Philip Roth’s American Pastoralegave me to understand that the glove-making business is fascinating–if I’m ever on Jeopardy! I can only hope there’ll be a category about the manufacture of gloves. The cover of Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, which was shocking when it came out in 1992 and, as far as I can tell, revolutionized our collective sense of how a dust jacket is supposed to look.I could only have discovered at Three Lives in Manhattan:Īsymmetryby Lisa Halliday, one of many suggested by the fabulously well-informed staff.taught me this Jeopardy!-worthy bit of trivia: I’m going a little heavy on Virginia Woolf, but no contest-Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.features the coolest book jacket: Most immediately on my mind, Lily in Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This is Not My Home.I’ve re-read the most: It’s hard to top Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolitafor blush-able sex scenes, though a close runner-up is The Guestby Emma Cline, neither of which is particularly graphic. …has a sex scene that will make you blush: Born is a renowned American author of mystery and thriller stories. …broke my heart:Īlthough most good novels break my heart in some way or another, Paul Harding’s This Other Edenreally shattered it. It’s a tie between the final passage of James Joyce’s The Dead and F. The First Bad Manby Miranda July.has the greatest ending: ![]() Make Troubleby John Waters, a published version of the brilliant commencement speech he delivered at the Rhode Island School of Design. Dallowaytaught me that there are no inconsequential lives being lived by anyone there are only inadequate writerly attempts to do them the full justice to which every human being is entitled. Most recently, Jayne Anne Phillips’ Night Watch took me all the way to the 7th Avenue stop, which is two subway stations past mine.shaped my worldview: Find your next holiday read with his book recommendations below. The book was later turned into a film starring Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. He’s best known for his novel The Hours which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1999. The Ohio-born writer attended Stanford University and studied English literature. In the midst of the ever-changing familial dynamic, Cunningham tenderly explores love and loss in the age of isolation. Day (Penguin Random House), out on November 14, follows a family on the same day over three years: April 5 in 2019, 2020, and 2021. For his first novel in nearly a decade, Michael Cunningham takes readers back to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]()
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