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Jonathan Kellerman recommended The Stories of John Cheever in Books (curated)

 
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever | 2021
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"Any collection of John Cheever’s short stories. I’m not a big fan of much of what passes itself off as literary fiction, finding it to be insipid, self-indulgent, plotless, and pointless. However, Cheever could write about everyday life and make it fascinating. His psychological insights are deft, never heavy-handed, and sometimes, as in his story “The Enormous Radio,” he veers into some really strange territory."

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Amy Fine Collins recommended The Innocents (1961) in Movies (curated)

 
The Innocents (1961)
The Innocents (1961)
1961 | Horror
8.0 (4 Ratings)
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"This is literary kismet, with screenwriter Truman Capote channeling Henry James—and with a child lead bearing the name of my own daughter, Flora. The story, which takes full measure of the spookiness and unknowability of children, has worked in every format—first James’s novella The Turn of the Screw, then the chamber opera of the same name, and finally this liminal black-and-white film."

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Richard Dawkins recommended Red Strangers in Books (curated)

 
Red Strangers
Red Strangers
Elspeth Huxley | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
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"This epic saga sweeping through four generations of life among Kenya’s Kikuyu tribe is a novel of Steinbeckian stature neglected by literary connoisseurs. Huxley leads us into the Kikuyu world so that, when the British arrive, they seem as alien as invading Martians. Her descriptive powers rival Steinbeck’s, but her imagery is drawn from the Kikuyu mind. A felled tree ‘tottered like a drunken elder.'

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