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Darin Strauss

(b.1970)

Darin Strauss is the international bestselling author of the New York Times Notable books Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy. Also a screenwriter, he is adapting Chang and Eng with Gary Oldman, for Disney. The recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing, he is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU's Graduate school.

Novels

   Chang and Eng (2000)
   The Real McCoy (2002)
   More Than It Hurts You (2008)
   The Queen of Tuesday (2020)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Darin Strauss

Lit Riffs (2007)
Writers 'Cover' Songs They Love
edited by
Matthew Miele

Darin Strauss recommends

Anyone's Ghost (2024)
August Thompson
"This book is a monster: the magnificent writing, the gallery of characters, the fascinating glimpse into the 'right now' make it stand about twenty feet tall among new books I've read."

Days of Wonder (2024)
Caroline Leavitt
"Days of Wonder is unputdownable for all the best reasons. It's packed with style, pathos, and humor. It's got a killer plot, a great heroine, and brilliance on every page. It is, in short, a masterpiece. If you're not a Leavitt fan, you just haven't read Days of Wonder."

Fervour (2024)
Toby Lloyd
"Fervour is the book we need now. Bracing, compassionate, wise, terrifying - this beautifully written novel will haunt your dreams. That is, if you can put it down long enough to get any sleep."

The Men Can't Be Saved (2023)
Ben Purkert
"Ben Purkert's The Men Can't Be Saved is a work of wit and timely power. Faith and modernity, capitalism and masculinity, sex and identity--this novel has it all, and gets away with it. The style and the intellect herein mark the coming of a major new talent."

I Meant It Once (2023)
Kate Doyle
"With I Meant It Once, Kate Doyle proves to be an exciting, fresh, intelligent, unique, poetic and wild new talent. More, the stories feel like dispatches from the front of modernity. This is what it feels like to be here, and young, right now. This is a timely, inspired, great book."

Fireworks Every Night (2023)
Beth Raymer
"Beth Raymer's stylish, thrilling Fireworks Every Night delivers what the title promises: a fun spectacle on each page. Nineties Florida deserves a neon talent, and that's what Raymer offers--pyrotechnical brilliance and a book of wit and heat. The voice is harrowingly true and full of sweet compassion. And in CC, Raymer has given us a character to love forever."

The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land (2022)
Omer Friedlander
"One of those rare authors who can trap each moment in a surprising and somehow perfect detail. A major work - I'd urge you to read it."

Paradise, Nevada (2021)
Dario Diofebi
"Vegas has been right there forever, waiting for a great novelist, and Dario Diofebi has come dealing nothing but aces."

Baby of the Family (2019)
Maura Roosevelt
"Baby of the Family is a masterpiece, and gripping, and Maura Roosevelt is the realest of deals. You'll love how big it is, and how thrilling."

The Book of M (2018)
Peng Shepherd
"The Book of M is exciting, imaginative, unique, and beautiful. Shepherd proves herself not just a writer to watch, but a writer to treasure."

Raising the Dad (2018)
Tom Matthews
"Raising the Dad mines family dysfunction for all of its complex truths and wild emotions. Tom Matthews strikes the damnedest balance—aching loss, brutal humor—as his befuddled protagonist deals with mind-blowing circumstances."

Spaceman of Bohemia (2017)
Jaroslav Kalfař
"I beg you: take this strange, hilarious, profound, life-affirming trip into literary outer space."

Paper Lantern (2014)
Stuart Dybek
"Not only our most relevant writer, but maybe our best."

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