Recommendations for a Play, Novel and Comic From the depths of space to a humble convenience store, here are some must-read works of fiction.
by Perry Continente
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“Two Trains Running” by August Wilson
“The Lieutenant of Inishmore” by Martin McDonagh A dark, violent, and hilarious play about a psychopathic Irish terrorist with a soft-spot for felines, few playwrights can match McDonagh’s energy or sardonic wit. As delightful as any play featuring cattle mutilation can be.
The novel: PHOTOGRAPHY BY LIZ LAUREN
“Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders
Primarily a short story writer, August Wilson is slowly starting experience in every decade from Saunders’ first attempt at a novel cinched the 2017 Booker Prize to become a household name and 1900 through 1990 is a masterwith the Oscar-nominated adap- piece, but I consider the ‘60s set and for good reason: there is tations of his works “Fences’’ and “Two Trains Running” one of his nothing else like it. The novel al“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” I best. The play’s themes of gentri- ternates between the perspectives of Abraham Lincoln’s recently personally consider him one of fication, protest and restorative deceased son Willie and the othAmerica’s greatest playwrights justice resonate as strongly now er spirits inhabiting an intermein recent years. Any play from as ever. His textured characters diary plane before the afterlife. Wilson’s “Century Cycle” which and sharp social critique bring chronicles the African American this tale to life as only he could. A large portion of the book is
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