Brian Gresko 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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writer, co-runs @PetesReading, teacher & founding member @thewritingcolab, he/they, weird & queer, eyeliner on point
The Red Zone: A Love Story
Chloe CaldwellBrian Gresko“To pass as a nuclear family is a privilege in some ways, just as passing as straight can be. On the other hand, passing for something other than you are also means you are not being seen, and not being seen can often hurt” — Chloe Caldwell, whose book THE RED ZONE is phenomenal!
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Invisible Things
Mat JohnsonBrian GreskoI’m loving @mat_johnson INVISIBLE THINGS, and this convo about it on @SoManyDamnBooks is equally delightful and smart and well worth a listen! https://t.co/EcjfiMQTIk
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira JacobBrian Gresko@lynnsstrong Forsyth Harmon’s JUSTINE. Not a graphic novel, but an illustrated work of literature. I’d put Mira Jacob’s GOOD TALK up there too, and Sebald’s RINGS OF SATURN. All books with such intention in language as well as graphics
Paperback, 2020
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Melissa FebosBrian GreskoWhat a beautiful and moving piece on @melissafebos BODY WORK, in which @adalva, like Febos herself, puts himself on the page w searing vulnerability, demonstrating the very craft he’s discussing. I can’t wait to share this w my students https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/06/melissa-febos-body-work-book-review/661172/
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
So Happy for You
Celia LaskeyBrian GreskoHad a lovely time at Black Spring Books celebrating @celia_laskey new novel SO HAPPY FOR YOU. @TheDenneMichele is the most fabulous interviewer! It was an evening of laughter and insight and love 💕 https://t.co/cf1sICEH2K
Hardcover, 2022
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
Matthew SalessesBrian Gresko@clairedonato Forgive me if someone mentioned this already, but Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is classic, and for a contemporary literary novel, Matthew Salesses’ Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
Hardcover, 2020
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bibliomania: Or Book Madness; A Bibliographical Romance, in Six Parts; Illustrated with Cuts
AnonymousBrian GreskoUp on @lithub I had the pleasure of talking with @SolomonAnna about her latest novel, THE BOOK OF V., a sexy, magical triptych of a tale with a radically feminist backbone inspired by one of the weirdest books of the Bible https://lithub.com/anna-solomon-reimagines-a-biblical-villain-as-a-feminist-hero/
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I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
Laura Van Den BergBrian GreskoSo excited for my weekend reading — I HOLD A WOLF BY THE EARS, the forthcoming collection by @Lvandenberg, whose THE THIRD HOTEL blew my mind. The cover of this is so evocative! 😍 https://t.co/XJVvQV7y98
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inciting Joy: Essays
Ross GayBrian GreskoLove Ross Gay on teaching without grades, from INCITING JOY; the use of first person plural strikes me as key—classroom as community https://t.co/DKnN7NnZtg
Paperback, 2024
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stupid Children
Lenore ZionBrian Gresko@lynnsstrong Lenore Zion’s STUPID CHILDREN is a wonderful, underlooked indie. Miranda Beverley-Whittemore’s FIERCE LITTLE THING is great too
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