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NYT-bestselling transbian authoress: TRUE BELIEVER / RINGMASTER / HOLLYWOOD FREAKS. Board, @JewishCurrents. Against messianism. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️

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Book Cover for: Big Bill, A. R. Gurney

Big Bill

A. R. Gurney
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Read my dad’s amazing investigative biography of Big Bill!!! https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo6701925.html https://twitter.com/chiblueshistory/status/1542478616130371584

Paperback, 2005

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Hyperion

Dan Simmons
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I often think of that bit of exposition in Dan Simmons’s HYPERION where the narrator informs us that the Palestinians got the land back in 2038, rejoiced, then, a few months later, had to flee Earth like everyone else when we nuked ourselves

Paperback, Mass Market, 1990

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie
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As a result of a reply to these tweets, I have started reading Ann Leckie’s ANCILLARY JUSTICE. Wow it’s great so far

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Operation Shylock: A Confession (PEN/Faulkner Award), Philip Roth

Operation Shylock: A Confession (PEN/Faulkner Award)

Philip Roth
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Though I have my problems with Philip Roth, OPERATION SHYLOCK remains the final word on the ideas and emotions that wrack Israel, and the Palestinians. I’m glad I read it _after_ I’d already been delusional enough to think I had anything new to say about Zionism and occupation

Paperback, 1994

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Antiquities of the Jews Part: 2: SPM Theological Library Volume 2, Flavius Josephus

Antiquities of the Jews Part: 2: SPM Theological Library Volume 2

Flavius Josephus
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Top five dead men to whom I’ve been unsettlingly relating as of late: 1. Flavius Josephus 2. John Reed 3. Lion Feuchtwanger 4. Varian Fry 5. The Joban Poet

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A Man in Full

Tom Wolfe
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He had treated Wolfe while the writer was working on what became A Man In Full. I can’t help but feel terrible for ol’ Tom, getting stuck with a prick like that

Hardcover, 1998

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Heroes in Crisis

Tom King
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Once again thinking about the part of Heroes in Crisis where Tom King gave Harley Quinn a monologue about how much she hates pudding

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Book Cover for: The Book of J, Harold Bloom

The Book of J

Harold Bloom
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https://t.co/7IfFilX37M (well, technically THE BOOK OF J, but Harold Bloom got what I was going for) https://t.co/MDYvkTMu8P

Paperback, 2004

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Country Music: An Illustrated History, Dayton Duncan

Country Music: An Illustrated History

Dayton Duncan
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I’m watching the Ken Burns docuseries on country music and it’s just so good

Hardcover, 2019

$55.00$30.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens
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(saying to group. of 7 girls) the lore surrounding Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is actually quite a bit darker than you might think..and fairly Leftist https://t.co/LHtbFtKbtf

Paperback, 2020

$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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