Ten Favorite Novels That Confine Themselves to a Single Day

(alphabetically by author, with Promenade, The Divine Comedy’s “circadian album,” as the soundtrack)

 

  • Ghosts by César Aira

  • The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasm

  • The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

  • Lies of the Night by Gesualdo Bufalino

  • The Storm by Tomás González

  • A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

  • The Passion According to G. H. by Clarice Lispector

  • Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar

  • Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

— June 11, 2021


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