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4 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Well, like one, this feels like a foolish example, but it's it's it's I think the first moment I realized that you can do anything you want was reading an old novel by Colette, a French writer.”
Why: It taught him that a novel can leave things hanging and give the reader room to invent.
Gigi by Colette
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“Paul Beatty wrote a book, The Sellout, which is about slavery coming back. And that is not a funny subject, but he makes it really funny.”
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Guest on How I WriteAndrew Sean Greer: Pulitzer Winner Teaches Writing | How I Write
“In fact, there's a novel called The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, which is like a Brazilian masterpiece. Bras Cubas. Bras Cubas.”
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Guest on How I WriteAndrew Sean Greer: Pulitzer Winner Teaches Writing | How I Write
“It's like in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. People know the movie, but if you read the book, you realize you never hear her name.”
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Guest on How I WriteAndrew Sean Greer: Pulitzer Winner Teaches Writing | How I Write
Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2018 novel called Less. So I had to ask him, what is it like to win a Pulitzer Prize?”
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Guest on How I WriteAndrew Sean Greer: Pulitzer Winner Teaches Writing | How I Write