(Brian) Omar Acevedo Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Writer who works with writers. Lover of literature & media. Timmy's dad. 🧙🏼♂️🇵🇷🌈

The Family Izquierdo
Rubén Degollado
I found some cool books coming out fall 2022: The Family Izquierdo by @ruben_degollado, The Old Place by @bobbyfinger, The Furrows: An Elegy by @namwalien, Our Missing Hearts by @pronounced_ing, Stay True: A Memoir by @huahsu, and Inciting Joy: Essays by @RossGay18 https://t.co/jvPTxaJoHz
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Furrows
Namwali Serpell
I found some cool books coming out fall 2022: The Family Izquierdo by @ruben_degollado, The Old Place by @bobbyfinger, The Furrows: An Elegy by @namwalien, Our Missing Hearts by @pronounced_ing, Stay True: A Memoir by @huahsu, and Inciting Joy: Essays by @RossGay18 https://t.co/jvPTxaJoHz
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter
John Hendrickson
Come watch @JohnGHendy talk with @ClintSmithIII at the @TwainHouse about his new book Life on Delay! https://t.co/l1g4iK1ubF
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
War Diary
Yevgenia Belorusets
Join us for a conversation with Yevgenia Belorusets about her new book on life in wartime Kyiv—setting a loving attentive gaze against combat rhetoric and philanthropy against polarization. https://t.co/N0SxFBmWWL #ukraine #Україна #Ukraïna #ukrainian #ukrainians #ukrainetoday https://t.co/7hgtmiWFXS
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Samantha Irby
Considered "brilliant and one of the funniest people I’ve ever read" by #RoxaneGay, #SamanthaIrby will be in conversation with @kenicemobley about Irby's new book QUIETLY HOSTILE. Come join us for the fun! https://t.co/guzfz3vJo3 https://t.co/JVxdYpRt7v
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inciting Joy: Essays
Ross Gay
I found some cool books coming out fall 2022: The Family Izquierdo by @ruben_degollado, The Old Place by @bobbyfinger, The Furrows: An Elegy by @namwalien, Our Missing Hearts by @pronounced_ing, Stay True: A Memoir by @huahsu, and Inciting Joy: Essays by @RossGay18 https://t.co/jvPTxaJoHz
Paperback, 2024
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hua Hsu
I found some cool books coming out fall 2022: The Family Izquierdo by @ruben_degollado, The Old Place by @bobbyfinger, The Furrows: An Elegy by @namwalien, Our Missing Hearts by @pronounced_ing, Stay True: A Memoir by @huahsu, and Inciting Joy: Essays by @RossGay18 https://t.co/jvPTxaJoHz
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
"The past few years have witnessed a shift in consciousness about Glasgow’s identity: from being a postindustrial city to...a postimperial city." What an awesome article about Glasgow and its place in #YoungMungo by @Doug_D_Stuart, which I just finished. https://t.co/lDeBcPU8A9
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller
Max Wallace
I'll be hosting this exciting discussion of AFTER THE MIRACLE by Max Wallace (@GrandCentralPub)—which peels back the curtain that obscured Helen Keller’s political crusades in favor of her “inspirational” childhood. More info and to register: https://t.co/Yikvo4vYEU https://t.co/MMxOyAyDSk
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The World and All That It Holds
Aleksandar Hemon
The World and All That It Holds by @aleksandarhemon is a novel about Rafael Pinto who is pushed to the First World War & falls in love w/Osman "a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto’s introspective, poetic soul..." Definitely adding it to this year's reading list! https://t.co/uvtdlVjsGZ
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book