Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Repository of useless animal facts. Writer and professor of fiction and otherwise. Author of Stray City (@harpercollins/@customhousebks).
Hunger: A Novella and Stories
Lan Samantha ChangChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social@mayhewbergman Potent & ferocious teaching faves: "The Office of Historical Corrections" by @daniellevalore, "My Monticello" by @jocelynjohnson, "Gloss.." by @jstheater, "Hunger" by Lan Samantha Chang, "Grief is the Thing w/Feathers" by Max Porter, & (less ferocious) Alejandro Zambra's "Bonsai"
Paperback, 2023
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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane AlisonChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social@rgay I ❤️ a well-informed contrarian take that makes me rethink all the canonical advice—like Jane Alison’s Meander, Spiral, Explode and @salesses Craft In The Real World. And intersections between craft and politics & culture, which also incl Charles Baxter’s Burning Down The House.
Paperback, 2019
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
Jamie FigueroaChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social@MatthewSitman Jamie Figueroa’s 2021 novel Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer is set in a fictionalized Santa Fe (and she lives there!)
Hardcover, 2021
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Trust Exercise
Susan ChoiChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social@salesses Susan Choi's Trust Exercise? Also the premise of this class is brilliant
Paperback, 2020
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Spectacle
Susan SteinbergChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social@lynnsstrong Susan Steinberg's "Spectacle" is great for this. And, very much in the poetry/fiction hybrid lane, I assigned an excerpt from Maggie Millner's "Couplets" (from @astra_mag RIP) to a fiction workshop with poets in it this semester--& the whole book is about to land!
Paperback, 2013
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Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
Charles BaxterChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social@rgay I ❤️ a well-informed contrarian take that makes me rethink all the canonical advice—like Jane Alison’s Meander, Spiral, Explode and @salesses Craft In The Real World. And intersections between craft and politics & culture, which also incl Charles Baxter’s Burning Down The House.
Paperback, 2008
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This Time Tomorrow
Emma StraubChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.socialEmma’s bittersweet novel This Time Tomorrow made me cry many times when I read it, and this thread about her beloved dad—about and for whom she wrote it—knocked me out all over again. Raising my glass to Peter Straub and all who knew him. https://t.co/J9MOYn0JvD
Paperback, 2023
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The Order of Time
Carlo RovelliChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.socialI raided my partner's theory shelves and pulled Elizabeth Freeman's Time Binds and In Time With You. And Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time...
Paperback, 2019
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Zz PackerChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social@RoomofOnesOwn @DeeshaPhilyaw @MauriceRuffin ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is one of the best ever. I bet you’d also love @TisforThompson’s Heads of the Colored People. And every collection by @haszombiesinit but maybe especially Get In Trouble!
Paperback, 2004
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Bonsai
Alejandro ZambraChelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social@mayhewbergman Potent & ferocious teaching faves: "The Office of Historical Corrections" by @daniellevalore, "My Monticello" by @jocelynjohnson, "Gloss.." by @jstheater, "Hunger" by Lan Samantha Chang, "Grief is the Thing w/Feathers" by Max Porter, & (less ferocious) Alejandro Zambra's "Bonsai"
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book