Caleb Crain 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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Leave Society
Tao LinCaleb Crain“Despite, or perhaps because of, its virtues, the novel doesn’t hold the reader in its thrall. It meanders… It doesn’t seem to mind if you put it down.” @xtinesmallwood on Tao Lin's “Leave Society”: https://t.co/Lbq0C21O5s
Paperback, 2021
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Jack LoweryCaleb CrainMy review of Jack Lowery's "It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful," a thoughtful, cogent new history of the deployment of art in AIDS activism, published by @BoldTypeBooks, is in the print version of @nytimesbooks this weekend. https://t.co/qsXLDAUq01
Paperback, 2024
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Guest Cat
Takashi HiraideCaleb Crain@ds228 @saradgore @Unwise_Trousers Takashi Hiraide's "The Guest Cat" has that nothing-is-really-happening-but-it's-riveting vibe. Tanizaki's "Some Prefer Nettles" does not, but I liked it a lot.
Paperback, 2014
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Life of the Mind
Christine SmallwoodCaleb CrainRT @LAReviewofBooks: Christine Smallwood’s “The Life of the Mind” follows a listless Dorothy, an adjunct professor of writing, who is tryin…
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookIt Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Jack LoweryCaleb CrainI reviewed Jack Lowery's "It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful," a new history from @BoldTypeBooks of the art collectives that worked with ACT UP, for @nytimesbooks. https://t.co/qsXLDAUq01
Paperback, 2024
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Vet's Daughter
Barbara ComynsCaleb CrainA not-to-be-missed @playmobil video of the crucial scene in Barbara Comyns's "The Vet's Daughter," published by @nyrbclassics https://t.co/hH9myYBCPt
Paperback, 2003
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Making of Americans
Gertrude SteinCaleb CrainRT @leorobsonwriter: Think you know all about Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas? Cracked The Making of Americans? @francescawade, author of…
Paperback, 2020
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harriet the Spy
Louise FitzhughCaleb CrainRT @PublicBooks: Louise Fitzhugh—author of Harriet the Spy—and James Merrill—the poet—were joined by friendship, craft, and graphomania: th…
Paperback, 2001
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyCaleb CrainIn her new novel, Rooney hasn’t quite found the right vessel for her vision, any more than her characters have found the ideal sociopolitical structure for channeling human connectedness.
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Treasure of the Spanish Civil War
Serge PeyCaleb CrainTomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7:30pm, hosted by @CommunityBkstr, I'll be talking with Donald Nicholson-Smith about his translation of Serge Pey's "Treasure of the Spanish Civil War," just out from @archipelagobks. Book: https://t.co/mMjFtgqzNt Event: https://t.co/PkaA6i9KS8
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book