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Dana Spiotta's Reading List

“I feel such connection to the human who made it, which delights and moves me,” says the novelist, whose new book is “Wayward.” “If you can write a joke that is still funny in 100 years, you are great.”

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By the Book: Dana Spiotta (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-07-01).

Source: www.nytimes.com

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Eimear McBride · Buy on Amazon
"Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing devastated me."
Counternarratives
John Keene · Buy on Amazon
"brilliant."
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Afterparties
Anthony Veasna So · Buy on Amazon
"radically new and hilarious."
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Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde · 1984 · Buy on Amazon
"so clarifying and potent. I wish I had read it years ago."
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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman · Buy on Amazon
"Its hybrid form is miraculous."
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders · Buy on Amazon
"I read the Tolstoy short story Master and Man for the first time via George Saunders's analysis in his great book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. Saunders shows you how Tolstoy did it, which is a gift, truly."
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The Summer Before the Dark
Doris Lessing · Buy on Amazon
"the midlife woman is self-aware, political, sort of a counter to the tragically naive title character"
Flash Count Diary
Darcey Steinke · Buy on Amazon
"I loved Darcey Steinke's Flash Count Diary"
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The Friend
Sigrid Nunez · Buy on Amazon
The Secret of Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel · Buy on Amazon
"captures the humility and wisdom that comes from inhabiting an aging body with great wit."
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Weather
Jenny Offill · Buy on Amazon
"Jenny Offill's Weather for its intimate reckoning with the world around the midlife"
The Big Money
John Dos Passos · Buy on Amazon
"it changed forever my idea of what novels could be or do."

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