Brian Dillon 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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Brian Dillon is a writer and professor. Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
![Book Cover for: Gallery of Clouds, Rachel Eisendrath](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781681375434.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709842177)
Gallery of Clouds
Rachel Eisendrath![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
“Lives of the Critics; or, Et in Arcadia Ego“ Rebecca Ariel Porte @___OED___ on Rachel Eisendrath’s Gallery of Clouds and the literary genre of the “life in criticism”. (Which might despite and unknown to myself be the only genre I’ve ever written in.) https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lives-of-the-critics-or-et-in-arcadia-ego/
Hardcover, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan, Darryl Pinckney](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781250893550.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709848538)
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Darryl Pinckney![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
For @IrishTimesBooks, my review of Darryl Pinckney's memoir about his friend and mentor Elizabeth Hardwick, "Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan". (Including EH on martinis: "They explode the whole head.") https://t.co/yNVbRZmcyE
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read, Terry Eagleton](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780300270440.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709850367)
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
Terry Eagleton![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
I'm in this week's @4_columns summer missive, reviewing Terry Eagleton's "Critical Revolutionaries". https://t.co/Z2Syx0KkHQ
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Margaret Cameron](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781606065808.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709843994)
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
"Julia Margaret Cameron's niece" was of course Julia Stephen: philanthropist, author of "Notes from Sickrooms", and mother of Virginia Woolf
Paperback, 2018
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Wrong Norma, Anne Carson](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780811230346.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1710752853)
Wrong Norma
Anne Carson![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
alongside genial poetic conceits there are works here of abiding strangeness and profundity… Carson can seem a rarefied, scholarly, or forbidding poet; but such moments as the lament of the sky, inseparable from erudition and wit, connect her work to the world in startling ways.
Paperback, 2024
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: August Blue, Deborah Levy](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780374602048.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725751205)
August Blue
Deborah Levy![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
My @4_columns review of Deborah Levy's novel AUGUST BLUE. https://t.co/CMbvdXf0fC
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Unfinished Business, Michael Bracewell](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781399604390.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709850396)
Unfinished Business
Michael Bracewell![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
As part of the @Dauntbooks festival, I'll be talking about AFFINITIES with the great Michael Bracewell, whose books, especially UNFINISHED BUSINESS and SOUVENIR, you should plan to buy when you come along – 5:30pm on Friday 17th March https://t.co/vfncV3XxKS
Hardcover, 2023
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century, Olga Ravn](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780811234825.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709841763)
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
Olga Ravn![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
For @4_columns, I wrote about Olga Ravn's short, strange, queasy novel The Employees (translated by Martin Aitken). https://t.co/vYza0Y2FnA
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction, Brian Dillon](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781681372822.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709841781)
Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
Brian Dillon![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
An extract from ENSAYISMO in today’s @el_pais. Spanish edition of ESSAYISM translated by Inmaculada C. Pérez Parra, and published by @AnagramaEditor. https://t.co/vLkq5TW6fB
Paperback, 2018
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, Ian Penman](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781635901887.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725751205)
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors
Ian Penman![Brian Dillon](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/9022cb0d-7708-47e3-ae2b-0a1eedbee1da.webp)
FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS is published today by @FitzcarraldoEds – congratulations to @pawboy2. Looking forward to conversation with IP and Olivia Laing at Foyles on 4 May https://t.co/7AQDdkJRGe
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book