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How 2022 became the year of the fragmented-identity novel

The Los Angeles Times 20 Dec 2022
On the Shelf. The Year in (Fragmented) Books. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores ... Last month’s U.N ... (MCD) ... Lydia Millet, whose latest novel, “A Children’s Bible,” tackled climate change, reads new fiction on climate and argues against calling it a genre ... Books.
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Unbound Book Festival lineup expands, adding Millet, Salesses, McCauley

Columbia Daily Tribune 19 Dec 2022
Novelist Lydia Millet and multi-genre authors Matthew Salesses and Jennifer Maritza McCauley have joined keynote poets Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal on the 2023 roster in recent weeks. Millet's latest, "Dinosaurs," hit shelves this year and is a work of uncommon spirit ... Millet is a ...
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The best books of 2022 with Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch

RNZ 18 Dec 2022
Writers Kate De Goldi and Laura Kroetsch join Kim Hill to share their favourite books of the year. From a tour of sea creatures to a novel with four versions of the same story, and a history of bodily freedoms, their picks offer eclectic and electric reading options for the summer ... Dinosaur by Lydia Millet (novel, USA) ... Dinosaur by Lydia Millet (USA).
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Looking back at the best book club moments of 2022

The Los Angeles Times 17 Dec 2022
Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. The 12 days of Christmas are upon us. This week, though, I’d like to celebrate the 12 months of book club we’ve just experienced ... “ ... May ... Extinction is a running theme in much of Lydia Millet’s work ... In more than a dozen books, Millet has emerged as a major Western voice on the environment.
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Celeste Ng on her not-so-speculative new book ‘Our Missing Hearts’

The Los Angeles Times 03 Dec 2022
Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Celeste Ng calls her new novel “scarily real.” It’s also compulsively readable ... On Dec ... Pacific ... On Jan ... Pacific on Jan. 26 ... in pencil ... In October, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet joined us in Los Angeles to discuss “Dinosaurs,” the latest from the author of “A Children’s Bible.”.
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Review: A novel look at being nice

Lincoln Journal Star 27 Nov 2022
Dinosaurs,” by Lydia Millet, Norton, 240 pages, $26.95. I heard Lydia Millet asked once, in an interview, why she’d left the literary world of New York, where she clearly thrived, and she said that it was too easy to be mean there, and she’d rather be nice — or words to that effect.
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Library Bookends Nov. 22

Ellensburg Daily Record 22 Nov 2022
Ellensburg Library hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday. For more information go to www.ellensburglibrary.org. New Fiction ... a novel,” by Lydia Millet ... ....
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Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet review – can a wealthy man be good?

The Observer 03 Nov 2022
Millet likes fragments, so it’s not unusual, either, for a sentence to be one word long ... It’s particularly masterful how Millet develops Gil’s fascination with birds, weaving closely observed descriptions of them into a text that is otherwise very blank ... Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet is published by WW Norton (£14.99).
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Book club: What to read after Lydia Millet’s ‘Dinosaurs’

The Los Angeles Times 29 Oct 2022
During Wednesday’s book club, author Lydia Millet talked about driving cross-country being different than at any time in the past ... Millet says the appropriate reaction to human-caused extinction is to get angry, and then get busy on turning this around.Advertisement. Extinction is a running theme in much of Millet’s work.
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A protagonist everybody likes in Millet’s ‘Dinosaurs’

Republican American 25 Oct 2022
I heard Lydia Millet asked once, in an interview, why she’d left the literary world of New York, where she clearly thrived, and she said that it was too easy to be mean there, and she’d rather be nice – or words to that effect ...Dinosaurs” by Lydia Millet; W.W.
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Does L.A. need a city council? You be the judge

The Los Angeles Times 25 Oct 2022
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Oct. 25. I’m Jon Healey, senior editor of the Utility Journalism Team, the group that answers burning questions and offers news you can use ... Advertisement ... That’s up to you to decide ... Novelist Lydia Millet joins the L.A ... Why Lydia Millet writes about what frightens her most.
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Fall books a broad mix of literary and commercial favorites

Lebanon Democrat 20 Oct 2022
NEW YORK. Anticipation for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers has been growing all year ... Hoover’s extraordinary run on bestseller lists, from Amazon.com to the New York Times, has been Beatle-esque for much of 2022, with four or more books likely to appear in the top 10 at a given moment ... Jemisin, Lydia Millet and Yiyun Li ... ....
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Fall fiction powerhouses: Meet Lydia Millet, Percival Everett and Celeste Ng

The Los Angeles Times 15 Oct 2022
26 Tucson author Lydia Millet joins book club readers at the Autry Museum of the American West to discuss “Dinosaurs.” The author of “A Children’s Bible,” Millet was a 2020 National Book Award finalist ... In advance of our next book club night, Lydia Millet talked with writer Martin Wolk about the inspiration for her new novel, “Dinosaurs.”.
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In 'Dinosaurs,' a trust-fund orphan tries to do good in a world out of whack

The Keene Sentinel 15 Oct 2022
Lydia Millet ... I heard Lydia Millet asked once, in an interview, why she’d left the literary world of New York, where she clearly thrived, and she said that it was too easy to be mean there, and she’d rather be nice — or words to that effect ... And Millet, whose talent is at once outsize and subtle, makes it seem perfectly natural.
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New releases at Faulkner County Library

Log Cabin Democrat 15 Oct 2022
Large Print.. All good people here / Ashley Flowers. High notes / Danielle Steel. It ends with us / Colleen Hoover. Long shadows / David Baldacci. November 9 / Colleen Hoover. Phantom rustlers / Francis Hilton. Proud ones / Verne Athanas. Adult Fiction.. After I do / Taylor Reid Jenkins. After the lights go out / John Vercher ... Dinosaurs / Lydia Millet ... A ... S ... .

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