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Anthony Domestico Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Anthony Domestico is a columnist and professor Columnist @commonwealmag and associate professor of literature @SUNY_Purchase. Book on modernist poetry and theology from @JHUPress: https://t.co/dOpAsEh1zL

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Book Cover for: On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays, Emily Ogden

On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays

Emily Ogden
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

In this collection of short, blazing essays, Ogden is interested in experiences that don’t lead to final and clarifying knowledge. ... How wonderful it is to read Ogden, a writer who says that “the question mark’s business with me will never be finished” and means it.

Paperback, 2022

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Dog of the South, Charles Portis

The Dog of the South

Charles Portis
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

"The world's number one piddler had taken to his bed again." - Charles Portis, "The Dog of the South"

Paperback, 2007

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nights in Aruba, Andrew Holleran

Nights in Aruba

Andrew Holleran
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

"There was nothing to do but turn back and reenter the city, deserted on the August weekend, as if in silence it would give up its secrets to me." - Andrew Holleran, "Nights in Aruba"

Paperback, 2023

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

I wrote on Eleanor Catton's "Birnam Wood" for @BookPostUSA https://t.co/tAziMe9L31

Paperback, 2024

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Girls They Write Songs about, Carlene Bauer

Girls They Write Songs about

Carlene Bauer
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

"I did not think the world needed another modernist." - Carlene Bauer, "Girls They Write Songs About"

Paperback, 2023

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy

Stella Maris

Cormac McCarthy
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

Terrific new issue of @commonwealmag, including this piece by @phil_christman on Cormac McCarthy https://t.co/cyUuZmLV0e

Paperback, 2023

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Travels with Charley: In Search of America, John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

The natural New England taciturnity reaches its glorious perfection at breakfast. - John Steinbeck, "Travels with Charley"

Paperback, 1980

$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: On Getting Better, Adam Phillips

On Getting Better

Adam Phillips
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

"Like Jamesian pragmatists, children believe that truth is what happens to an idea once they like it." - Adam Phillips, "On Getting Better"

Paperback, 2022

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

"Their Beauty soothed me and took me out of Myself; their noble expressions reminded me of all that is good in the World." - Susanna Clarke, "Piranesi"

Paperback, 2021

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Running Blind, Lee Child

Running Blind

Lee Child
Anthony DomesticoAnthony Domestico

"He sipped his coffee and thought about time." - Lee Child, "Running Blind"

Paperback, Mass Market, 2007

$10.99Member price:$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book