Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Kathryn Scanlan
Kathryn Scanlan recommends
The Nature Book (2023)
Tom Comitta
"Tom Comitta's original novel - composed of descriptions of animals, plants, weather, water, earth, time and space from canonical English-language works - is a feat of conceptual art, biblical in tone and panoramic in scope. The absence of human life in The Nature Book is a relief and a delight, yet Comitta's devotion to the 'ancillary' builds a subtle and uncomfortable portrait of human consciousness: its judgments and observations, its habit of projecting itself into the minds of animals, and its tendency to see the natural world in terms of how it resembles, serves, or threatens the human one."
The Novelist (2022)
Jordan Castro
"I admire the ingenious invention of The Novelist, in which an unnamed writer struggles to write his book, begins to write another book, and ultimately writes this book, which is blunt, earnest, scatological, self-critical, provocative, philosophical, and very fun to read."
