The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
CW: assault A starkly different recommendation--from The Pale King to this, which couldn't be more different if you'd tried. There's more plot in a single paragraph of the latter than in all of the former's million odd pages...and this book isn't short by any means. This is a fictionalized … [Read more]
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Prophets A recommendation by the delightful Evin, who did indeed tell me to read this many eons before I actually did! If, like me, you found it hard to pick this book up, then perhaps this review is for you. This book is: - not as trauma porn-y as Whitehead at his peak (The Underground … [Read more]
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
What a WEIRD book, and yet another in the long list of books that could best be deemed "female friends who should really not be friends anymore." Reva, you deserve so much better! Narrator, I don't think you deserve worse but you definitely need someone different in your life to zhush it up. It's … [Read more]
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
What a WEIRD book to read after The Sympathizer. X hundred pages of righteous rage against the bourgeoisie and capitalism and the inherent virtue of communism...transitioning into a "The Terminal" x Golden Age NYC x Anastasia dreamland of a novel, in which a well meaning former member of the … [Read more]
Bump by Chiara Atik
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Speed the Plow by David Mamet
Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill
American Buffalo by David Mamet
Bump Completely unrelated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPPA3Gv7RQ&ab_channel=SpankRock-Topic This more recent play begins with a few small moments in the life of a pregnancy. We start with a pregnancy message board specifically tied to "December Moms" based on their due dates, which … [Read more]
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
"In a medical examination on the eve of the Nuremburg Trials, the doctors found the nails of Hermann Göring's fingers and toes stained a furious red, the consequence of his addiction to dihydrocodeine, an analgesic of which he took more than one hundred pills a day." There's a few moments in this … [Read more]
