These are the books critic magicmolly can't get out of her head this month
Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images There’s a lot of psychological research about how people overcome aversions. For example: Eating terrifically spicy foods is a painful experience that many individuals nonetheless enjoy. But nobody gobbles habaneros from birth. The path from recoiling to appreciation usually proceeds along a gentle slope, by experimenting with slightly spicy foods and graduating to sinus-clearing, mouth-imploding dishes.
I do not predict there will be a perfect correlation between enjoyment of Groff’s mondo 2015 best seller Fates and Furies and enjoyment of this book, which is totally different. $26 at Bookshop Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .
RIYL: Hitting the “Random Article” button on Wikipedia, the work of Susan Kare, How To With John Wilson, learning new skills from YouTube tutorials One of the characters in Beautiful World, Where Are You is, like Rooney, a successful young Irish novelist. The character is ambivalent about her recent fame and riches, and also about her general worth as raw human material, her capacity for friendship, her sexual motives, etc. Filling out the cast is her best friend, an editorial assistant at a literary journal; a guy who works in some parliamentary capacity; and a guy who works in a shipping warehouse.