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By the Book: Dan Chaon (2022)

NYT By the Book column (2022-06-02).

Source: www.nytimes.com

William Lindsay Gresham · Buy on Amazon
"I was impressed by how wonderfully weird it was, and how 1940s high modernist in its structure and use of interior. Kind of Nabokovian, even. I can't believe I'd never heard of it before!"
Alissa Nutting · Buy on Amazon
"so fearless."
Cover of Dear Miss Metropolitan
Carolyn Ferrell · Buy on Amazon
"so jaw-droppingly disturbing and yet enchantingly, achingly beautiful"
Elizabeth Bowen · Buy on Amazon
"This was not a book I'd generally recommend to the average 21-year-old, but it seemed to click with Rumaan, and we spent some very happy times discussing it."
Cover of A Kiss Before Dying
Cover of The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith · Buy on Amazon
Cover of Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert · Buy on Amazon
"My son, an ecologist, says there are far scarier books out there, but Kolbert is about as much as I can handle."

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