Alice Elliott Dark's Reading List

"Both those books return me to my deeper purpose as a human and as a writer."

"Both those books return me to my deeper purpose as a human and as a writer."

"The opening sequence is a knockout, there is an unforgettable scene on a train, and the novel reveals itself to be a murder mystery past the halfway mark. She is a genius of the epiphany."

"I have bought and drowned four copies of Jenny Odell's "How to Do Nothing" — that's how powerful her message is."

"for its extraordinary and often very funny sentences."

"always makes me squirm and hope I'm not deluding myself like Tony Last. It's a scathing book that takes down the pretensions of class and empire as it entertains with quick brilliant scenes."

"a thorough look at radical squatters in London and what they understand and what they don't."

"I was excited by her determination to create histories of undocumented lives."

"so funny it must be read where quiet isn't a value."

"reframes the Plains as a site of constant reconfiguration by both battle and diplomacy dominated by the adaptability and resilience of the Lakota people."

"I haven't read it since college, but I am still thinking about it."