Who recommends it
- Angie KimInterview
Age 16, the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling because I love it and love re-reading the whole series but there isn’t enough time to do that every year as I’d like to do. I had a lot more free reading time as a teenager during the summers, and I would have loved reading the whole series every summer. Age 25 — A Visit…
- Tim KasherInterview
I bought about ten books at Powell’s in Portland, OR a couple months ago – I like buying in bulk there, annually, as they tend to have most everything you’re looking for. The Amoeba Records of bookstores. Among those: Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane, The Map and the Territory by Michel Houllebecq, and A…
- Erika MeitnerInterview
I adore A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, My Dinner with Ron Jeremy by Kendra DeColo, and a book I read in grade school called The Rebel Witch by Jack Lovejoy.
- Rob KutnerInterview
That’s a toughie, as – in my experience – the best books describe the most harrowing of worlds! That said, I kind of loved the take-no-prisoners breezy style of the characters from A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, and wouldn’t mind time-travelling with them.
- Lindsay AmerInterview
I just bought Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. I had read her book A Visit from the Goon Squad years ago and saw this one in a bookstore so I picked it up to see what it was about and the storyline about a woman in a man’s job on the Navy Yard in New York during WWII immediately intrigued me. I’m working on a writing…
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