Adam Dalva 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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Adam Dalva is a book critic and professor. Writing in @NewYorker, @ParisReview, @NYTimes, @NYBooks. Senior Fiction Editor, @GuernicaMag. Board, @BookCritics. Professor, @RutgersU. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Lovestar
Andri Snaer MagnasonAdam DalvaSuch a pleasure meeting the great @AndriMagnason on my last night in Reykjavik. His novel LoveStar and latest film Apausalypse are both wonderful, and I can’t wait to read his new book. https://t.co/KuV1uRMmsH
Paperback, 2012
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyAdam DalvaHad a great weekend reading the new Sally Rooney, BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU. Loved the structure (it’s part epistolary) and her talent for creating complex social structures that modify over long periods of time is fascinating. Out next month! https://t.co/X26xtmzDAg
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White on White
Aysegül SavasAdam DalvaWhat a magical afternoon with @Elif_Safak and Aysegül Savas through @Center4Fiction - I will carry the memory of our conversation for a very long time. Their latest novels - THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES and WHITE ON WHITE - are both terrific! https://t.co/crPGayk6iu
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We the Animals
Justin TorresAdam DalvaI'm thrilled to start my book review series for @GuernicaMag with @justinjtorres's spectacular WE THE ANIMALS. Excited to work with editor @eswinstead and artist Alana Salguero, as we explore books past, present, and future. https://t.co/5ML1fm9epr
Paperback, 2012
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blackouts
Justin TorresAdam DalvaCouldn’t put BLACKOUTS by Justin Torres down - bold, wild, smart, and totally surprising
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Girlhood
Melissa FebosAdam DalvaI wrote an appreciation of Girlhood, by @melissafebos, for the @bookcritics 30 books in 30 Days overview of our NBCC prize finalists. Girlhood is nominated in our criticism category- the more I engaged with this book, the more I loved it. https://www.bookcritics.org/2022/02/14/girlhood-by-melissa-febos-2021-criticism-finalist/
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate BeatonAdam DalvaDeeply liked and admired @beatonna’s DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS, a beautiful and sometimes harrowing graphic memoir about a 22 year old Beaton’s work in Alberta’s oil boom. Genuinely couldn’t put it down until I finished - out 9/13. https://t.co/jIYr5To5Yj
Hardcover, 2022
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yoga
Emmanuel CarrèreAdam DalvaEmmanuel Carrère’s Yoga is a strange, memorable read, besieged by a legal dispute with his ex-wife that leads to blank space throughout. A book of madness, meditation, and repetition. Part fiction, part cnf, which kept me on my toes - fans (and I am one) will enjoy it.
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Couplets: A Love Story
Maggie MillnerAdam Dalva“Prose is just one line that the constraints of the page make rectangular” - great conversation between Maggie Millner and @smathewss for the COUPLETS launch. @mwspence slipped the book into my hands a few months ago and it’s had me thinking about form ever since https://t.co/ljWBufxIxG
Out of stock
Winter in Sokcho
Elisa Shua DusapinAdam DalvaI loved THE PACHINKO PARLOR by the wonderful Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins. Her WINTER IN SOKCHO was one of my favorite novels last year, and this one lives up to it. A slim, surprising book about mistranslation and identity, with surprises throughout. https://t.co/G2kSfrwjWh
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book