Christine Schutt is today’s guest. She’s the award-winning author of several books. Her first novel, Florida, was a National Book Award finalist, and her second novel, All Souls, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest novel, Prosperous Friends, is now available from Grove Press.
Sam Lipsyte raves
Prosperous Friends is masterful, a comic-tragic astonishment. Christine Schutt continues to write some of the most original and rewarding prose I’ve ever read.
And Gary Lutz says
It is no longer a secret that Christine Schutt is the finest writer among us, and Prosperous Friends is her finest work yet. There isn’t a corner in any of her sentences left ungraced by her lyrical genius, her heart-fathoming wisdom. A few pages in, you’ll know you have a classic in your hands.
Monologue topics: New Year’s resolutions, killing my Facebook account, purging, getting rid of things, newspapers, radios.
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If hipsters gave everything away then I’d be there to take it and sell it right back to them. Yeah that question was idealistic to say the least.
Just catching up on some of these. Did you read THE HAPPINESS PROJECT in mid-December too? Ha. I think we have the same resolutions. Granted, I’m not getting rid of cable TV. I’d like to but my wife won’t budge, so we essentially pay $100 a month for HGTV. I’ve been lobbying her to join me in railing against Comcast since we first moved in together. Five years later….
As for getting rid of your excess books, check out http://www.paperbackswap.com. It’s like a brothel for bookworms.