Daphne Merkin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Daphne Merkin is a literary critic, memoirist and novelist. Literary critic, memoirist and novelist. My novel, 22 MINUTES OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, about erotic obsession, comes out in paperback on July 6th, 2021.
Leaves of Grass
Walt WhitmanDaphne MerkinThe book in the grass: reminds me of leaves of Grass, by the daring but euphemistic Walt Whitman. In these more open-minded times, 22 minutes bares its edgy soul before you can say Howard Rose. https://t.co/CrUyjl5MWj
Leather / Fine Binding, 2018
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden KeefeDaphne MerkinIf ur looking 2 read ur way out of our grim situation, I suggest SAY NOTHING, by @praddenkeefe, about the Troubles in N Ireland. It reads like the most poignant of thrillers and far-reaching commentary on the intersection of political activism and personal pathology.
Paperback, 2020
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Love's Work
Gillian RoseDaphne MerkinRead a remarkable book on the endless plane trip to Uruguay (a remarkable country, free of a celebrity culture & the blind worship of Mammon). It's called LOVE'S WORK, by Gillian Rose (sister of Jacqueline). From the NYRB Press, natch.
Paperback, 2011
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Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart
Rose StyronDaphne MerkinHer book traverses 50 years and many countries in the course of recording an enviably charmed life. Then again, charmed lives don’t just happen; they are created in part by the sort of people who have a gift for riding halcyon moments to their heights...
Hardcover, 2023
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfDaphne MerkinWulf’s breathless, sprawling narrative vividly illustrates what it was like to live in Jena at a time when Goethe wrote in the town’s Old Castle... Magnificent Rebels is, overall, a vaulting achievement.
Paperback, 2023
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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Richard Lloyd ParryDaphne Merkin@BarackObama Here are 2 I think you'd find interesting, both dark, which is how I like them. EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES, by Sven Lindquist PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS, by Richard Lloyd Parry I would also, egocentrically, recommend my own book, THIS CLOSE TO HAPPY, A Reckoning w/ Depression
Paperback, 2012
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The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London
D. J. TaylorDaphne MerkinMy essay about "Virginia Woolf: And The Women Who Shaped Her World", "The Equivalents", "The Lost Girls", and "Square Haunting" appears in the current issue of @nybooks @AAKnopf @TimDugganBooks @HMHCo @fsgbooks @Pegasus_Books https://t.co/7C1SbJFZmV
Hardcover, 2020
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan RosenDaphne Merkin@TheBookMaven Try Jonathan Rosen's THE BEST MINDS if you haven't read it. Also a wonderful memoir by Gillian Rose called LOVE's WORK..
Paperback, 2024
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The Nursery
Szilvia MolnarDaphne MerkinThe Nursery is a powerful brew of a novel, emitting unpleasant sights, smells, and emotions that are rarely captured in print; it is frequently disquieting in its brutal, insistent candor... Molnar has written a daring and much-needed novel...
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookLove's Work
Gillian RoseDaphne Merkin@TheBookMaven Try Jonathan Rosen's THE BEST MINDS if you haven't read it. Also a wonderful memoir by Gillian Rose called LOVE's WORK..
Paperback, 2011
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book