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Casey Cep Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Casey Cep is an author and journalist at the New Yorker. Staff writer @newyorker // Author @nytimes bestseller “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee"

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Book Cover for: Caterpillar Dogs: And Other Early Stories, Tennessee Williams

Caterpillar Dogs: And Other Early Stories

Tennessee Williams
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…its real appeal is something else entirely: not a revelation but an affirmation, the chance to be reminded of what we loved about Williams in the first place.

Paperback, 2023

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner), Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

Sarah M. Broom
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Belated, but so many congratulations to @sarahmbroom on the @nationalbook award. Every writer dreams of doing for her family or his hometown what Broom did so beautifully for hers in “The Yellow House.” Truly a gorgeous book.

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences, Truman Capote

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

Truman Capote
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RT @VintageAnchor: The first installment of IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote was published in the @NewYorker #onthisday in 1965! You can le…

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Book Cover for: Charles Portis: Collected Works (Loa #369): Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Writings, Charles Portis

Charles Portis: Collected Works (Loa #369): Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Writings

Charles Portis
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It’s absurdly fun to follow his oddballs and their odysseys, but something more than fun, too. Portis’s genius went beyond character in the strictly literary sense, to reveal something about moral character and many somethings about the character of this country.

Hardcover, 2023

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket

My Search for Warren Harding

Robert Plunket
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It’s rare these days to read a novel that feels like it is about something, but Plunket’s has a pleasing combination of utter obscurity and the heft of history…The book was funny and scathing, but also extremely informed and informative.

Paperback, 2023

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction, Jamie Kreiner

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction

Jamie Kreiner
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That is the real contribution of “The Wandering Mind”: it moves beyond the question of why the mind wanders to the more difficult, more beautiful question of where it should rest.

Paperback, 2024

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