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\"\"<\/a>My father-in-law, a fiercely intelligent Irishman in his late sixties, has just been diagnosed with cancer. As he is facing a long period of being confined to quarters, I’d like to send him some books to help pass the time. However, he has candidly admitted to me that his concentration is not what it once was, and he finds reading anything of extended length quite difficult. Would you have any suggestions\u2014collections of short pieces of fiction, or tales, personal essays, travel memoirs, for example\u2014that might be suitable? When he\u2019s feeling like his usual self, he enjoys reading Brian Moore and John Banville, outsmarting Stephen Fry on reruns of <\/em>Qi, and finishing the <\/em>Irish Times cryptic crossword in half the time it takes me to struggle through the Simplex.<\/em><\/p>\n

With thanks,
amrh<\/em><\/p>\n

Your father-in-law sounds great. You might ask whether he\u2019s read Brian Moore\u2019s novella Catholics<\/a><\/em>. It\u2019s a very short read, recently back in print: he may have missed it the first time. It happens to have been a favorite of David Foster Wallace; from your description, I wonder if your father-in-law might enjoy Wallace\u2019s essays (either A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again<\/a><\/em> or Consider the Lobster<\/a><\/em>) or my colleague John Jeremiah Sullivan\u2019s Pulphead<\/a><\/em>. (Read his recent essay<\/a> on Ireland if you\u2019d like a preview.) Or Geoff Dyer\u2019s essays, as for example Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It<\/a><\/em>. These are all witty essayists I read when my attention flickers low. Along the same lines, Sadie suggests Clive James\u2019s Cultural Amnesia<\/a><\/em> and Malachy McCourt\u2019s very breezy but entertaining memoir A Monk Swimming<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Does your father-in-law have any interest in Russia? For sheer storytelling, I recommend Ken Kalfus\u2019s PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies<\/a><\/em> or any collection by Alice Munro (I won\u2019t bother recommending William Trevor). You mention tales; it\u2019s an obvious one, but I\u2019ve found Isak Dinesen\u2019s Seven Gothic Tales<\/a><\/em> good sickbed reading. For travel writing, maybe Richard Holmes\u2019s Footsteps<\/a><\/em> or Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes<\/a><\/em>?<\/p>\n

We wish him a speedy recovery!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking for a couple of good books\u2014novels or short stories\u2014to read aloud with my boyfriend as we drive from Arizona up through the Badlands to a new start in New York. (We are not\u2014not quite\u2014as young and idealistic as that sentence makes us sound.) What would you recommend? <\/em><\/p>\n

We like your style.<\/p>\n

I suggest you keep a few books going at once, so you can switch around according to the driver\u2019s\u2014and the reader\u2019s\u2014mood. Thus, in no particular order, My Antonia<\/a><\/em>, Denis Johnson\u2019s Angels<\/a><\/em>, True Grit<\/a><\/em>, Last Evenings On Earth<\/a><\/em>, American Purgatorio<\/a><\/em>, any of Patricia Highsmith\u2019s Ripley novels, and The White Hotel<\/a><\/em>. All have a good strong voice, requiring no acrobatics on the reader\u2019s part, most have something to do with travel, and all of them clip along. Sadie points out that the Victorians tend to be good for reading aloud\u2014maybe the Palliser series?\u2014and suggests the stories in Daphne du Maurier\u2019s Don’t Look Now<\/a><\/em>. (She also proposed Another Roadside Attraction<\/a><\/em>\u2014and collapsed in giggles, for reasons best known to herself.) <\/p>\n

My eye won\u2019t stop twitching. Please help me.<\/em><\/p>\n

Turn off the damn computer and go to sleep!<\/p>\n

Have a question for the editors of <\/em>The Paris Review? E-mail<\/a> us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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