David Hayden Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
David Hayden on X
'Darker With the Lights On' is a book of my stories and it is available from @transitbooks.

The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964
Galway Kinnell
we did hide ourselves Galway Kinnell, from ‘The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World’ https://t.co/PR9dFJeok9
Paperback, 2002
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shutter of Snow
Emily Holmes Coleman
Emily Holmes Coleman's 1930 novel 'The Shutter of Snow' is an exceptional story of post-partum psychosis. It's great that this startlingly vivid, vertiginous and unsettling book is being reissued. https://t.co/6sDeXsInJm
Paperback, 2025
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
English Hours
Henry James
Liverpool is not a romantic city Henry James, from ‘London’, in ‘English Hours’, 1876/1905 (P.S Liverpool *is* a romantic city, in my opinion) https://t.co/XJLep2jxao
Paperback, 2021
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Voice Imitator
Thomas Bernhard
the same thing Thomas Bernhard, ‘Beautiful View’, in ‘The Voice Imitator’, tr Kenneth J. Northcott https://t.co/lYKaTMkasD
Paperback, 1998
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Paris Stories
Mavis Gallant
@susiemesure Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano or, for an outside view, Mavis Gallant's Paris Stories.
Paperback, 2002
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Princess Casamassima
Henry James
One walked of course with one’s eyes greatly open Henry James, from 'Preface' to 'The Princess Casamassima', 1886 https://t.co/oRHcPf3WmP
Paperback, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles
Delmore Schwartz
@DavidCollard1 @dantjenks Helen Levitt’s photo James and Alma Agee, with Delmore Schwartz in the back seat. Schwartz who wrote the excellent ‘The ego is always at the wheel’. https://t.co/YGPaQhcLfL
Paperback, 1987
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Genoa
Paul Metcalf
@Md1819 @chris_power It's a wonder in its own right. As is my other favourite Melville-inhabiting book, Paul Metcalf's Genoa.
Paperback, 2015
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People
Stephen Unwin
Rather than relitigate nonsense claims about how a glover's son couldn't conceivably have been Shakespeare, Stephen Unwin wrote 'Poor Naked Wretches': a stimulating and original book about the dramatic representation of working people in Shakespeare (which I helped publish). https://t.co/Jd9Vzmr0ph
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand’s ‘Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems’ is an essential gathering of work by one of the most compelling poets working today. Published in America last year @DukePress, it will be published @PenguinUKBooks in July. https://t.co/nbn54kQTue
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book