David Szalay

1 month ago | australianbookreview.com.au | Ned Lupson |David Szalay

David Szalay’s characters drift, indifferent and alone, caught in currents of seemingly trivial events that carry them further from comfortable shores. Encounters begin and end without resolution, connections form and dissolve in passing, and only in retrospect, if ever, do scars appear. ‘Are you happy that you’re alive?’ one character asks another in Turbulence (2018), Szalay’s short story collection that circumnavigates the globe via consecutive aviation encounters.

Dec 1, 2024 | newyorker.com | David Szalay

There’s some sort of holdup. Every day, they expect to fly out, and every day they are told it will be “another twenty-four hours.” They’re staying in a hotel with a swimming pool. It’s not really hot enough for swimming. It’s not quite pool weather. It’s, like, seventy-five or something. Still, they spend most of the day poolside—there isn’t anything else to do.

Nov 18, 2024 | indiatodayne.in | Ocean Vuong |Betty Shamieh |Loretta Rothschild |David Szalay

We Could Be Rats

Oct 21, 2024 | service95.com | Lucas Oakeley |Francesca Reece |David Szalay |Olivia McCrea-Hedley

Kintzing/Oscar Bellville The Reading List, Culture, Books | By Men should read more books. Specifically, books that aren’t called Rich Dad, Poor Dad or The Diary Of A CEO. When it comes to fiction, the ‘gender gap in reading’ is consistently widening, with surveys indicating that women account for 80% of fiction sales in the UK, US and Canada.  Yet there is so much excellent fiction that explores the male experience, waiting to be discovered.