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Dec 23, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Andrew O'Hagan
People offended by name-dropping are absolutely no fun. I’ve experimented with this concept on five continents — OK, four: Antarctica’s social whirl isn’t what it might be — and those who roll their eyes at shocking new developments in the world of celebrity are just the worst. Not content with having zero information to offer, they diminish what is given, and in a more efficient world such bores would be carried at high speed to the guillotine.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Andrew O'Hagan |Aryeh Neier |Christine Henneberg |E. Tammy Kim
Christine HennebergAfter the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, friends asked me whether I was worried for my four-year-old daughter’s future, specifically her access to legal abortion. My answer: not in California, and not with an abortion provider for a mom. In the worst-case scenario, I joked, I could perform her abortion in my garage.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Tom Crewe |George Orwell |Justin Torres |Andrew O'Hagan
The novels that made the 2024 shortlist are listed below. Comments are from the prize’s judging panel, which in 2024 was chaired by Alexandra Harris, and also included Lara Choksey, Ross Raisin and Simon Okotie: Blackouts by Justin Torres is a formal masterpiece, creating its own zone beyond the story it tells: a redacted history of queer sexology via an intergenerational deathbed dialogue.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Percival L. Everett |Miranda July |Andrew O'Hagan |Claire Kilroy
The perfect book club read is a novel that will appeal to a broad audience, touch on talking point issues, and feel like a worthwhile investment of time. Literary quality is—to some extent—subjective, but we’ve avoided the crowd-pleasing ‘easy reads’ that tend to populate lists like this. Life is busy, and not everyone has the time or inclination to sit down with a doorstopper every month.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
theglossarymagazine.com | Luciana Bellini |Andrew O'Hagan |Patrick Hamilton |Mick Herron
Books When Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road was released in April 2024, it swiftly cemented itself as one of the best London books. Billed as a Dickensian yarn of a celebrity writer heading for a fall in post-Brexit London, all of its action happens within the capital – but don’t expect the city to come off well. One reviewer of the book described O’Hagan’s London as ‘a den of thieves and chancers, bloated by Russian cash’.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Andrew O'Hagan
People who write unauthorized biographies often get authorized rebuttals. In 2004, when Kitty Kelley published The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, the disaster-prone House majority leader Tom DeLay wrote to her publisher, Doubleday, that she was in an ‘advanced stage of her pathological career’. He also claimed that Doubleday was in a state of ‘moral collapse’.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Rachel Cusk |Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Andrew O'Hagan |Miranda July
What are the novels everyone is talking about in summer 2024? Well, it depends on who you ask. But let’s start with some recent prizewinners. The winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was announced last month; Jayne Anne Phillips’ novel Night Watch is a mother-daughter story set in a West Virginia asylum in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Caledonian Road |Andrew O'Hagan
CALEDONIAN ROAD, by Andrew O'HaganLondon's Caledonian Road runs through the borough of Islington, past Pentonville Prison, postwar public housing estates and rows and rows of highly coveted Georgian terraces. Prices can reach multiple millions for houses in leafy squares, while poorer residents can spend years on waiting lists for council flats. If you want to write about inequality in London - or in the United Kingdom - "the Cally," to locals, is a good place to start.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Andrew O'Hagan |Dina Nayeri |Sarah Perry |Kiran Millwood Hargrave |Marjorie Lofti
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Andrew O'Hagan |Sarah Perry
Andrew O’Hagan. Photograph: Mimmo Frassineti/REX/ShutterstockAndrew O’Hagan: ‘He was among the best writers of his generation’Scottish novelistJohn Burnside had a gift for naming those things that exist beyond plain sight, and for roaming through “empires of light against the coming dark”. He made a lifetime’s work out of being an unpredictable and beautiful writer, giving us 17 collections of poetry, 10 works of fiction, three volumes of memoir, and a book of essays.
