By the Book: Ottessa Moshfegh: By the Book
Ottessa Moshfegh, author most recently of the novel “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” would invite Edith Wharton, Ralph Ellison and Charles Bukowski to dinner: “I’d ... want to know what it’s like to be dead, and whether writing great books has earned them any merit in the afterlife.”
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Nonfiction: Christie Watson Is a Lovely Writer — and, Judging From This Book, a Gifted Nurse
In the memoir “The Language of Kindness,” Watson — better known as a novelist — looks back at her two decades as a nurse at an urban British hospital.
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'Red Waters Rising' Leads Old Friends Into New Trouble
Laura Anne Gilman winds up her Devil's West trilogy with a fascinating story of tension and friction between old friends and new enemies, marred only by some odd choices at the end.
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Nonfiction: Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft
In “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel,” a new essay collection, the author of “The Queen of the Night” argues that writing fiction involves allowing yourself to become someone else.
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Fiction: Fleeing a Caribbean Plantation Into a Mythic Wilderness
Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel “Slave Old Man” is a kind of action pastoral, tracing a desperate escape from a savage master and his monstrous mastiff.
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Books of The Times: What the Living Can Learn by Looking Death Straight in the Eye
In “Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them),” Sallie Tisdale writes about what she’s learned from spending time with the dying.
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Nonfiction: Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs?
In “Bull__ Jobs,” the anthropologist David Graeber argues that technological advances have led to people working more, not fewer, hours at useless jobs.
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An Academic Adventure Goes Awry In 'Confessions Of The Fox'
Jordy Rosenberg's novel follows a professor who acquires the autobiographical "confessions" of legendary thief Jack Sheppard, and tries to add some academic footnotes — but things don't go to plan.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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Nonfiction: Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy
Donald Rumsfeld’s “When the Center Held” is a sympathetic portrait of the man who pardoned Richard Nixon.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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