Dan O’Brien Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Dan O’Brien on X
'Survivor's Notebook' (poems) 9/15; 'From Scarsdale' (memoir) 9/26; 'True Story' (plays) 9/26: https://t.co/mQzrVIhqaP rep: https://t.co/7hngbUjkgm he/him

Notebook: It's My Job To Play With Nipples
Work Life
I’m thrilled to share that ‘Survivor’s Notebook,’ a collection of my prose poems and photographs about life after cancer treatment, will be published by @acre_books in September next year. I’m very lucky to be able to work with editors @LisaAmpleman & Nicola Mason & Acre again 🙏 https://t.co/aOYhklwg3C
Out of stock

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas
Dan O'Brien
Thank you @TimesFreePress & @chapter16 @Dalkey_Archive @CBeditions Book Review: In 'A Story That Happens,' Dan O'Brien searches for meaning in the chaos of trauma | Chattanooga Times Free Press https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2021/nov/27/book-review-story-happens-dan-obrien/558580/
Paperback, 2021
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Notebook: New Delhi India Ruled 6x9 120 Pages
New Publishing
A bit of heartfelt slapstick in the new @FenlandJ — from my ‘Survivor’s Notebook,’ publishing in Sept. with @acre_books. Happy to be included with poets I admire like diamond geezer @RichardNSkinner. Thank you to editor @LizSennitt 🙏 https://t.co/cF40vfPWgb https://t.co/f7m650PavD
Paperback, 2019
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Scarsdale
Dan O'Brien
Includes my plays The Body of an American, The House in Scarsdale, & Dan O’Brien: Plays One https://t.co/TvTjEkAkqx
Hardcover, 2015
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Borges and Me: An Encounter
Jay Parini
Absolutely cannot wait to be back in New Harmony with the @NH_Project and this stellar group of playwrights & theatre artists (incl. my collaborator @echristianp), where I’ll be developing my adaptation of Jay Parini’s ‘Borges and Me’ ✨✨✨ https://t.co/BGyZJCMB6i
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Our Cancers: Poems
Dan O'Brien
Thank you to the National Library of Medicine @NLM_NIH for continuing to suggest 'Our Cancers' @acre_books as a Reading Club Book with a discussion guide, especially as November is National Family Caregivers Month https://t.co/E8PuoXq9SK
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dan O'Brien: Plays One
Dan O'Brien
Includes my plays The Body of an American, The House in Scarsdale, & Dan O’Brien: Plays One https://t.co/TvTjEkAkqx
Paperback, 2018
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets: Sale of Gas Networks by National Grid: Report
Great Britain
Week 7 in Great Britain my 8yo American daughter: “I have to write a non-chronological report on haggis.”
Hardcover, 2006
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Survivor's Notebook: Poems
Dan O'Brien
Thrilled to see this notice of ‘Survivor’s Notebook’ in @PublishersWkly — with a photo of my daughter on a beautiful cover designed by Barbara Bourgoyne. Publishes 9/15 from @acre_books & available for preorder https://t.co/YkInvTGMhI https://t.co/1RzM8joav4
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights
Jacqueline Goldfinger
‘A Story That Happens’ somehow at the top of this list, along with some other great books like ‘Playwriting With Purpose’ by my friend Jacqueline Goldfinger: https://bookauthority.org/books/new-playwriting-books @Dalkey_Archive @CBeditions
Paperback, 2021
$38.95$19.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book