David Burr Gerrard 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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Wrote The Epiphany Machine and Short Century. Teach fiction writing at The New School and the 92nd St. Y. Now only use four-letter words writing prose. He/Him.

26 books

Etiquette: The Original Guide to Conduct in Society, Business, Home, and More

Emily Post

David Burr Gerrard

Any list of new etiquette rules should include at least one pun on the name of Emily Post. Because her name now calls to mind a social media post. You can’t just leave that on the table.

Paperback, 2017

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Upstairs House

Julia Fine

David Burr Gerrard

The Upstairs House is easily one of the five best books of 2021 and you should read it immediately https://twitter.com/finejuli/status/1462958690881921030

Paperback, 2022

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Book Cover for: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Just found this Jane Austen omnibus that belonged to my grandmother. Inside was a clipped article from the October 25, 1980 TV Guide about a Masterpiece Theater production of Pride and Prejudice. On the other side of the article is an ad for “the first high-grade videotape.” https://t.co/TmrLGXE1ar

Hardcover, 2024

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Montauk

Max Frisch

David Burr Gerrard

@ScottCheshire @ThePhthailer You can just use the text of Max Frisch’s Montauk. Everyone who has read it is friends with you and won’t squeal

Paperback, 2016

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Book Cover for: All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy: Know anyone who is always busy with works, has no life, no time for the loved ones? Surprised them with th, Chee Keong Hiu

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy: Know anyone who is always busy with works, has no life, no time for the loved ones? Surprised them with th

Chee Keong Hiu

David Burr Gerrard

When I wrote “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” over and over for hundreds of pages, the CIA ensured that my cry against capitalism was rejected from MFA programs https://t.co/28v3ISOUQs

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The World Cannot Give

Tara Isabella Burton

David Burr Gerrard

Great to see this starred Kirkus review for The World Cannot Give, which is a terrific novel that’s going to blow you away. Out in March. https://twitter.com/NotoriousTIB/status/1478069742959304706

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Happy: Arranged for Solo Harp & Harp Duet

Pharrell Williams

David Burr Gerrard

@_ryanruby_ Have you tried listening to the Pharrell Williams song “Happy”?

Paperback, 2015

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Epiphany Machine

David Burr Gerrard

Ok taking a VERY brief hiatus from my Twitter hiatus to brag about this shoutout to The Epiphany Machine in this coming weekend’s NYT Book Review By the Book from the wonderful Karen Joy Fowler. Proof that good things happen when you log off. Ok bye again! https://t.co/K27oWxU8jI

Hardcover, 2017

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

David Burr Gerrard

@TheLincoln I remember in 2005 or so hearing David Mitchell saying something to the effect of sentence innovation being exhausted and future innovation needing to be structural. In practice this has meant a ton of Cloud Atlas knockoffs lol

Paperback, 2004

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

An Asian American A to Z: A Children's Guide to Our History

Cathy Linh Che

David Burr Gerrard

Congrats to @kylelucia and @cathylinhche on their beautiful new children’s book, An Asian American A to Z https://t.co/MvTmv3zbz5

Hardcover, 2023

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book