Andrew Berzanskis 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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Editorial Director, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account. Also: @aberzanskis.bsky.social
A Bouquet Of Verse: Volume 2
Gina Ancheta AgsaulioAndrew BerzanskisI've been working through the "various artists" CDs in the local music section of @Guestroom, and I can now testify that the garage rock transcendence you are looking for can be found on "Quarantine Dream: Choice Cuts from Central Oklahoma's Rock Underground, Volume 2." https://t.co/ouhkZbikXI
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Where the Dead Sit Talking
Brandon HobsonAndrew Berzanskis"He once made an entire map of places where he could be by himself." An introverted youth navigates a full house in Brandon Hobson's novel WHERE THE DEAD SIT TALKING
Paperback, 2019
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Very Cold People
Sarah MangusoAndrew BerzanskisOuch. From Sarah Manguso's novel VERY COLD PEOPLE https://t.co/Yibx0xCr06
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
John GrishamAndrew BerzanskisA colorful criminal defense attorney in Ada, Oklahoma: "He loved to make money and had little patience with clients who couldn't pay. His motto was 'Innocent until proven broke.'' John Grisham, THE INNOCENT MAN: MURDER AND INJUSTICE IN A SMALL TOWN
Paperback, Mass Market, 2012
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Grifters
Jim ThompsonAndrew Berzanskis"He worked with a paradoxical mixture of diligence and indifference. He knew exactly what needed to be done, his expression said, and to hell with doing a bit more than that." THE GRIFTERS, written by Anadarko's Jim Thompson
Paperback, 2014
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story
Lanne HoweAndrew BerzanskisThis is a novel that should be on more baseball best-of reading lists— In the novel MIKO KINGS: AN INDIAN BASEBALL STORY by LeAnne Howe, a Choctaw ghost in Ada, Oklahoma points to the obscured Native roots of "a game without time, one that must be played counter-clockwise." https://t.co/k4shol5HR8
Paperback, 2007
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seasonal Associate
Heike GeisslerAndrew Berzanskis@brouillettese Would "working in publishing" include warehouse workers, whose labor is essential for print books to reach their readers? Perhaps Paul Juhasz's "Fulfillment: Diary of a Warehouse Picker" or Heike Geissler's "Seasonal Associate."
Paperback, 2018
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma
Robert J. MillerAndrew BerzanskisFun fact: the 40% off discount applies to forthcoming books, too. Like "A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma" by Robert J. Miller and Robbie Ethridge, coming in January! https://t.co/63vcw3ALjy
Paperback, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Prairie Power Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest
Robbie LiebermanAndrew BerzanskisStart a book like this and I will keep reading. (From Sarah Eppler Janda's "Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962-1972.") https://t.co/FtK8KLVbTJ
Paperback, 2010
$61.00$36.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Kindred
Octavia ButlerAndrew BerzanskisA word that's new to me, from Octavia Butler's novel KINDRED, about a modern-day black woman who finds herself in the pre-Civil War south: a coffle. https://t.co/18HPmy6zA2
Paperback, 2004
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