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Bill R Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Author of Insulted by Authors; sad, literary, balding young man. http://t.co/TFfZYxuRA7

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Book Cover for: The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta

The Leftovers

Tom Perrotta
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Thanks @StMartinsPress for Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers. Can't wait for my book club with my buddy Kirk Cameron! #bananasprovegodexists

Paperback, 2012

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy
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Reading Bendis' Powers graphic novel series alongside C McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Lots o' violence, tons of joy.

Paperback, 1992

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mr. Peanut, Adam Ross

Mr. Peanut

Adam Ross
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Now reading Adam Ross's Mr Peanut; it isn't grabbing with the same depth & ferocity of Egan's Goon Squad. Unfair comparison maybe but still.

Paperback, 2011

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson

The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson
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New insults on Insulted by Authors from Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master's Son. Hard working young man! http://t.co/C53byMpu

Paperback, 2012

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lo Vers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes, Bill Peschel

Writers Gone Wild: The Feuds, Frolics, and Follies of Literature's Great Adventurers, Drunkards, Lo Vers, Iconoclasts, and Misanthropes

Bill Peschel
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Reading Bill Peschel's Writers Gone Wild - apparently Robert Frost was called "Yahweh" by his friends for his monstrous ego. #goodreads

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Book Cover for: Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World, Robin Page

Sisters & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World

Robin Page
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Finished P. DeWitt's Sisters Brothers in 1 go last night. Like most fast one-night stands, enjoyable, left questioning my skills day after.

Paperback, 2012

$11.99Member price:$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Union Square, Adrian Koesters

Union Square

Adrian Koesters
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Couldn't make #tinafey reading @ Union Square turned back by line of thousands. Can anyone get me an insult? We can work out a deal.

Hardcover, 2018

$26.99Member price:$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Demonology, Rick Moody

Demonology

Rick Moody
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Great Rick Moody interview @parisreview http://bit.ly/ovf3Po great view of headspace after Demonology but before Fingers o' Death apparently

Paperback, 2002

$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Evening Hour, Carter Sickels

The Evening Hour

Carter Sickels
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Thanks to @BookCourt and Carter Sickels for the reading last night. Best insult in months! Check out Sickels' new novel, The Evening Hour.

Paperback, 2012

$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Scalped: A collection of thrillers, Jeff Van Zant

Scalped: A collection of thrillers

Jeff Van Zant
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Finished trade paperback #2 of Scalped; Ennis's right on in the foreword, Scalped is a great new (to me) voice in comics.

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