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Nicole Krauss' Favorite Books

First Posted: 10/06/10 02:43 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:55 PM ET

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The Daily Beast:

The novel as a form is surprisingly undefined: there's almost nothing it necessarily need be or not be. This murkiness or flexibility offers tremendous freedom, and it sometimes surprises me that more novelists don't seize it.

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The novel begins to close itself to the writer who built it out of her private concerns and instincts. She who knows its measurements exactly, who invented its inner workings, begins little by little to forget how it was made.
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Krauss does not share, for instance, Jonathan Franzen's preoccupation with an accretion of detail in the service of social commentary; if anything, she is the antithesis of Franzen.
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George Mitrovich: When Brooklyn Was No More

The Dodgers were Brooklyn. We know the world is weird, but it's weirder still when a sports team leaves and the place left behind is forgotten, but that's what happened.
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Randy Susan Meyers: Loving an Agonizing Read

The best books, essays and poems make you laugh, "Oh God, me too," about things we can barely admit to ourselves. Works that when we read them, remind us that we are not alone, even in our crazy-times.

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There were three, not five, all in translation.
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