BOMB Magazine 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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Six Days in Rome
Francesca GiaccoBOMB Magazine"What I was trying to do was bring that element of stream of consciousness home, because that’s how life is. Our past and present all woven together." —Francesca Giacco, interviewed by @madelaine_lucas on SIX DAYS IN ROME (Grand Central Publishing). https://t.co/WgXNKx8r1f
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eleutheria
Allegra HydeBOMB Magazine"I started ELEUTHERIA with the intention of writing climate fiction that moved beyond only fear-mongering with worst case scenarios ... I wanted to leave readers with a sense of broader possibility." —Allegra Hyde https://t.co/75C53vODrJ
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaBOMB Magazine"I am braver on the page than I am in real life." —Alejandro Varela @drovarela speaks with Miguel Gutierrez on THE TOWN OF BABYLON (@astrahousebooks), a debut novel about going home to face the past, queer love, heartache, and America's many myths. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/alejandro-varela-interviewed/
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Uranians: Stories
Theodore McCombsBOMB Magazine"We should be writing about God and rimming; both deserve their poetics!" —Theodore McCombs (@mrbruff) The author of URANIANS (@astrahousebooks) chats with @stpfau on queer metaphysical stories, opera, the idiosyncratic mentor–protégé bond, and more. https://t.co/p9r7p55rXy
Hardcover, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight
Lynn XuBOMB Magazine"A voice is singular, but it is also anonymous and plural. It is promiscuous." —Lynn Xu 'Lynn Xu: And Those Ashen Heaps That Cantilevered Vase of Moonlight' is on view at @MOCATucson until January 8. https://t.co/q2BgTWb2Cy
Paperback, 2022
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
Debby ApplegateBOMB Magazine"We don’t want to know that sex drives a lot more things than we realize. Nobody wants to admit that. We lie about it all the time." @Debby_Applegate on MADAM: THE BIOGRAPHY OF POLLY ADLER (@doubledaybooks), interviewed by Jamie Pietras https://t.co/cMPhoMNLDG
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last White Man
Mohsin HamidBOMB Magazine"I write sentences to create an emotional register that allows the reader to step into a certain experience and accept it.” —Mohsin Hamid For the fall issue, the author spoke with @chapmanchapman on his latest novel, THE LAST WHITE MAN (@riverheadbooks). https://t.co/l45vdexo1V
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Water: THE MIRACLE MOLECULE (Understanding the Biological Importance of Water)
Jonathan ClarkBOMB Magazine"[F]or aspiring writers, [Wislawa Szymborska’s] words may feel like 'cold water over one’s head,' which, though it may make you uncomfortable, will also make you clean." —Jonathan Russell Clark https://t.co/XXiwRTqPmP
Paperback, 2016
$5.89$2.94 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Night of the Living Rez
Morgan TaltyBOMB Magazine"Place is a living thing, and it speaks and communicates in ways we have to learn to listen." —@Morgan_J_Talty The author of NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ (@tin_house) on writing a debut story collection about being Penobscot in the twenty-first century. https://t.co/Y1wuxeZ4Lo
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Morality Play
Lauren HilgerBOMB Magazine"To trust a poem is done is to be at peace squashing some potential ability you sensed at one point." —@Lauren_Hilger The poet on her second collection, MORALITY PLAY (@poetrynw), which explores a lifetime of submerged truths. Interview by @diokollias. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/lauren-hilger-interviewed/
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book