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Brooklyn Institute Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, Ian Penman

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Ian Penman
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Faculty Writing: @xtinesmallwood in @4_columns on @pawboy2 (Ian Penman's) "sneakily brilliant" new book on Fassbinder's life and work | https://t.co/bP5UdCKrjk https://t.co/yI93hpOEuo

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Villette

Charlotte Brontë
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From the Gothic to the Postcolonial: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (In-Person) | October BISR Courses @astheicecreamc1 | https://t.co/2AQYG1FeeA https://t.co/HREFDrDBy8

Paperback, 2008

$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Woman: The American History of an Idea, Lillian Faderman

Woman: The American History of an Idea

Lillian Faderman
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Faculty Writing: @reproutopia in @thebafflermag reviews Lillian Faderman's "unabashedly homonormative" _Woman: The American History of an Idea" | https://t.co/37iZxp9Ij9 https://t.co/BiC7M7j2vI

Paperback, 2023

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
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Fiction and Inner Life: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | July BISR Courses | https://t.co/TKcgPWQqvK https://t.co/ck91tcZ4Kk

Paperback, 1990

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid
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From the Gothic to the Postcolonial: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (In-Person) | October BISR Courses @astheicecreamc1 | https://t.co/2AQYG1FeeA https://t.co/HREFDrDBy8

Paperback, 2025

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: News from Nowhere, William Morris

News from Nowhere

William Morris
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Faculty Writing: RH Lossin in @nybooks reads William Morris' upotian novel News from Nowhere as radically forward-looking | https://t.co/YIL5pPUs0N https://t.co/976sAMb9v0

Paperback, 2018

$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
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Fiction and Inner Life: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | July BISR Courses | https://t.co/Ul8ivUZBjE https://t.co/w0F7dPcRiM

Hardcover, 2021

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Diaries of Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka
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Join us January 17th for a talk with translator Ross Benjamin about reading Kafka, unexpurgated, in the intimate diary form, with @materialist_jew, @___OED___, @xtinesmallwood, and Lauren K. Wolfe | https://t.co/QvhxX1WBhR https://t.co/XkYfTIIrLh

Hardcover, 2023

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
Brooklyn InstituteBrooklyn Institute

Fiction and Inner Life: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | July BISR Courses | https://t.co/NmefvuLq5l https://t.co/o7bh8bs33T

Paperback, 1990

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom, Andrew Nagorski

Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

Andrew Nagorski
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Faculty Writing: @PatBlanchfield in @newrepublic reviews @AndrewNagorski 's "distressingly timely" new biography Saving Freud: how to explain even this arch-skeptic's inability to see the dangers of his own time clearly? | https://t.co/2GrI0khprJ https://t.co/hodJ6w1G4W

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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