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Lydia Millet's Books
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George Bush, Dark Prince of Love"Some women like muscle. Brute strength, or the illusion of it. Their idea of an attractive man is a craggy meatpacker with a squirrel brain, who...Read More
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Pomona College Web, April 6, 2012
...As part of Pomona College’s Literary Series, Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist Lydia Millet will give a reading from her work on Wednesday, April 11 at 4:15 p.m. in Crookshank Hall Room 108 (Pomona College, 140 W. Sixth St., Claremont). Millet...
New York Times, April 4, 2012
...inspired by junk-store purchases. Rob and his co-curator, Joshua Glenn, enlisted writers like Neil LaBute, Colson Whitehead and Lydia Millet to take as their literary inspiration such finds as a rabbit candle, a scratched wooden mallet and what appears...
New York Times, April 4, 2012
...inspired by junk-store purchases. Rob and his co-curator, Joshua Glenn, enlisted writers like Neil LaBute, Colson Whitehead and Lydia Millet to take as their literary inspiration such finds as a rabbit candle, a scratched wooden mallet and what appears...
Tucson Weekly, March 15, 2012
...Well into this new novel by Lydia Millet, the central character, cuckolded bureaucrat Hal Lindley, muses about his recently discovered marriage issues: "His marriage had been, in his mind, a pure union. And now it was adulterated...
Guardian.co.uk, January 27, 2012
...in the infinitely flexible "English" language (and share that with writers as diverse as Miguel Syjuco, Junot Díaz, Lydia Millet and Chinua Achebe) the idea that a political re-balancing of the already dis-United Kingdom would strand us in mutually...
San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, 2011
...to make his way through human society - is a brash, glittering and engaging yarn. Ghost Lights, by Lydia Millet (Norton; $24.95). In her surreal, darkly hilarious and profound novel, Millet presents a disoriented hero who becomes a willing but only...
Guardian.co.uk, January 27, 2012
...in the infinitely flexible "English" language (and share that with writers as diverse as Miguel Syjuco, Junot Díaz, Lydia Millet and Chinua Achebe) the idea that a political re-balancing of the already dis-United Kingdom would strand us in mutually...
Bibliophile By the Sea, October 1, 2011
...Van Booy First day of the Rest of My Life by Cathy Lamb Ghost Lights: A Novel by Lydia Millet The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Heft by Liz Moore The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Alina Bronsky The Language of Flowers by Vanessa...
GoErie.com Top Headlines, October 1, 2011
...follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Middlesex," goes back to the 1980s, evoking college life and deconstructing love; Lydia Millet's "Ghost Lights" is a sequel to her 2008 novel "How the Dead Dream."In "Zone One," Colson Whitehead puts a literary...
The New York Observer, September 15, 2011
...sense of humor and self-seriousness, and emerges with a brilliant allegory of New York living. Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet (W.W. Norton & Co., $24.95) October 24 The novel follows an IRS employee who travels to the jungle in search of T., a...
La Daily Musto, September 11, 2011
...placement!Related ContentLive: Kendrick Lamar Arrives In New York, Takes Over S.O.B.'s September 1, 2011Fall Arts: Lydia Millet Turns the IRS Literary September 7, 2011MAKE IT RAIN June 1, 2011Fall Arts: Book Picks September 7, 2011Spring Arts Guide: 10...
Portland Mercury, July 20, 2011
...Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet I love Lydia Millet. Her short story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was my most-gifted book the year it came out. (And, of course, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart...
Jacket Copy, May 30, 2011
...by Women All Men Should Read . Included in the list: Zadie Smith, Kelly Link, Marilynne Robinson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lydia Millet, Doris Lessing, Djuna Barnes, Toni Morrison, Harper Lee, Clarice Lispector, Iris Murdoch, Shirley Jackson, Gertrude Stein,...
