Aaron Gwyn Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Novelist & Professor: ALL GOD'S CHILDREN @EuropaEditions, WYNNE'S WAR @MarinerBooks, DOG ON THE CROSS @AlgonquinBooks. Repped by Peter Straus @RCWLitAgency.
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthyAaron GwynNew episode of my Blood Meridian Substack will be up this weekend for paid subscribers. It’s about Cormac’s favorite novel, Moby-Dick, and its influence on (and strong presence in) Blood Meridian. https://t.co/uMXpKzLRZR
Paperback, 1992
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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
Jonathan CullerAaron Gwyn10. Jonathan Culler’s ON DECONSTRUCTION: Maybe the sanest book written about that lunatic Derrida and his pointless semiotics that captured the American Academy (1979-2003).
Hardcover, 2014
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Dictionary of Americanisms
Bartlett John RussellAaron GwynThis is a solid resource for fiction writers looking for a dictionary of 19th century American slang (particularly of the West). A decent place to start before moving on to John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms (a must). https://t.co/og7LxFxQbJ
Hardcover, 2022
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William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country
Cleanth BrooksAaron Gwyn8. Cleanth Brooks’s THE YOKNAPATAWPHA COUNTRY: My favorite study of Faulkner’s novels. Very useful and insightful. Quite clear w/ useful charts and shit in the back.
Paperback, 1989
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S. C. GwynneAaron Gwyn4/ You don’t have to be “Woke” to understand this. You just need to have read a handful of American history books. I’d especially recommend the fantastic EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON by S.C. Gwynne—it’s about Quanah Parker and the Nermernuh People.
Paperback, 2011
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Child of God
Cormac McCarthyAaron Gwyn"And were there darker provinces of night, he would have found them."--Cormac McCarthy, CHILD OF GOD (Photo by my buddy @toddpetersen) https://t.co/78xbWFOcTu
Paperback, 1993
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Travesty
John HawkesAaron Gwyn16/ But personally, I preferred Blood Meridian, Lolita, John Hawkes's Travesty, Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier, Mrs. Dalloway, The Stranger, Nausea, Notes from Underground, Cane, Ceremony, All the Pretty Horses, Love Medicine, Heart of Darkness, Molloy, As I Lay Dying, etc.
Paperback, 2016
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Ulysses
James JoyceAaron GwynIf you sit down & learn Steve Vai’s solos from Eat ‘Em & Smile, you see how Vai figured out various ways to make them unplayable by lesser guitarists (i.e. 99.9% of people who own guitars). James Joyce did something similar w/ Ulysses. Certain artists want to be irreplicable.
Paperback, 1990
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
Henry Louis Gates JrAaron Gwyn9. Henry Louis Gates’s THE SIGNIFYING MONKEY: This book will turn your head inside out. Skip Gates is brilliant and you should know his work apart from his genealogical series.
Paperback, 2014
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Harlem Shuffle
Colson WhiteheadAaron GwynI had the pleasure of chatting once again with the great and powerful @colsonwhitehead for @PublishersWkly ahead of the publication of his phenomenal sequel to Harlem Shuffle, Crook Manifesto (out July 18th from @doubledaybooks). https://t.co/d4kT3wSUd1
Paperback, 2022
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