Plus "Trust Exercise" author Susan Choi tells us what inspired her.
We're wrapping up Trust Exercise this week! Over in the Facebook group, this month's guest host Maris Kreizman asked for some great quotes from the book. Here's one from BuzzFeed Book Club member Erin Summerhays:
"Because we're none of us alone in this world. We injure each other. Why should another be injured by choices I make for my self? You're choosing for another when you make choices. We overlap. We get tangled. You can't help but hurt."
Haunting stuff.
In our last newsletter, we asked you for books you can't stop thinking about in honor of last month's pick Just Kids. Here's what you recommended!
And don't forget to buy or borrow your copy of Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. We'll start reading that September 1!
💡 Points of Inspiration 💡 We asked Susan Choi to share what inspires her to write. - The novels of Muriel Spark, for their lean, mean, storytelling machine quality — the way she grabs you by the neck instead of holding your hand, and the way she doesn't worry if you like her characters or not.
- That moment in Jennifer Egan's "The Keep" when the writer of the story reveals himself, when our assumption that the narrative voice is omniscient gets exploded.
- Going Clear, Lawrence Wright's book about the Church of Scientology, and specifically his delineation of how much Scientology owes to Sanford Meisner.
- The Pratt Institute main library stacks, where I first started the book, sitting in a very dusty corner on a floor of glass block. The Sterling Memorial library stacks at Yale, the Banks Studio at the MacDowell Colony, and 33 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn — all places where I wrote sections of the book. For some reason I can't explain, the physical settings in which I wrote this book felt particularly indispensable to the way the book turned out.
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