Lydia Millet's Books
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The Scotsman, June 1, 2013
...praised by their better-known contemporaries – such as Chris Adrian, Ben Marcus, Amy Fusselman, Brian Evenson, Lynne Tillman, Lydia Millet, David Markson and Maggie Nelson. To further whet your appetites, I’d wholeheartedly direct you towards this...
Guardian.co.uk, May 17, 2013
...Salman Rushdie, or Nicola Barker have more in common with non-realist genre writers (such as Christopher Priest or Lydia Millet) than they do with Ian McEwan or Howard Jacobson or Rose Tremain. In fact, if there is a major shift it probably has more to...
Guardian.co.uk, April 16, 2013
...Judge Dredd and half Jacques Derrida). Contemporary American fiction has plenty of practitioners in this vein: Junot Díaz , Lydia Millet , Shalom Auslander , Karen Russell and many others. Contrary to Damien Walter's view of the list , I'm proud that we...
Times Live South Africa, April 15, 2013
...by AM Homes, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander, Magnificence by Lydia Millet, Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, The Round House by Louise Erdrich, A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers, The Yellow Birds by Kevin...
New York Times, April 14, 2013
...A. M. Homes; What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Mr. Englander; Magnificence by Lydia Millet; and Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon. Others suggested The Round House by Louise Erdrich, which won a in October; and the books that were...
Equities.com, April 5, 2013
...literary within genre (Atwood is a previous winner, as is Kazuo Ishiguro, while David Mitchell, Sarah Hall and Lydia Millet have all been shortlisted). Harkaway is, I suppose, the "literary" turn here, although all the titles deploy techniques from...
Guardian.co.uk, April 4, 2013
...literary within genre (Atwood is a previous winner, as is Kazuo Ishiguro, while David Mitchell, Sarah Hall and Lydia Millet have all been shortlisted). Harkaway is, I suppose, the "literary" turn here, although all the titles deploy techniques from...
The Scotsman, June 1, 2013
...praised by their better-known contemporaries – such as Chris Adrian, Ben Marcus, Amy Fusselman, Brian Evenson, Lynne Tillman, Lydia Millet, David Markson and Maggie Nelson. To further whet your appetites, I’d wholeheartedly direct you towards this...
Guardian.co.uk, May 17, 2013
...Salman Rushdie, or Nicola Barker have more in common with non-realist genre writers (such as Christopher Priest or Lydia Millet) than they do with Ian McEwan or Howard Jacobson or Rose Tremain. In fact, if there is a major shift it probably has more to...
St. Petersburg Times, January 19, 2013
...Laurent Binet, HHhH; Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk; Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son; Lydia Millet, Magnificence; Zadie Smith, NW. Nonfiction Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai...
Toronto Star Online, January 18, 2013
...fiction, and there is propaganda, and in the best of all possible worlds never the twain shall meet. Lydia Millet, a onetime Pulitzer contender with nine novels to her credit, presumably knows this but, in her latest offering, she appears to have thrown...
Stanford Daily, January 17, 2013
...the fiction award. It joins Laurent Binet’s “HHhH,” Ben Fountain’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” Lydia Millet’s “Magnificence” and Zadie Smith’s “NW.” The winner will be announced on Feb. 28 in New York City. “The...
Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2013
...and of Binets own obsession with the Nazi killer. The other fiction finalists are Adam Johnson for and Lydia Millet for Magnificence. In the nonfiction category, Katherine Boo was nominated for Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity," along with...
Pottsdown Mercury, January 15, 2013
...for fiction include French author Laurent Binet’s “HHhH,” Adam Johnson’s “The Orphan Master’s Son” and Lydia Millet’s “Magnificence.” Boo is a nominee for general nonfiction, along with Andrew Solomon’s bestselling “Far from the...
