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David S Wallace Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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David S. Wallace is a writer and editor. Writing and editing here and there. Just kidding about the jokes.

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Book Cover for: Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Hernan Diaz

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Hernan Diaz
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

Perhaps “Trust,” in the end, makes a surprisingly un-postmodern case for what the novel can do. It can deliver discrete, luminous sensations. It can make one subjectivity clear at a time. And it can help you appreciate experience… before it disappears.

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Certain American States: Stories, Catherine Lacey

Certain American States: Stories

Catherine Lacey
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

I talked to Catherine Lacey about her story in this week's New Yorker. Some things she spoke about incisively: ending stories, wounds physical and psychic, voices in our head, why we can't take advice, etc. https://t.co/VJjtGC4FAD

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century, Andreas Malm

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Andreas Malm
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

@RobGMacfarlane Andreas Malm’s “Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency” attempts to do this. Here’s a fairly balanced review of it: https://t.co/ozslO7gZC1

Paperback, 2020

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: For the Ride, Alice Notley

For the Ride

Alice Notley
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

I wrote about the fearless Alice Notley and her new book "For the Ride." https://t.co/a8ojgFAt6d

Paperback, 2020

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Collected French Translations: Poetry, John Ashbery

Collected French Translations: Poetry

John Ashbery
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

I wrote about John Ashbery, social media and self-presentation, the political turn in poetry's mainstream—small, straightforward things like that... https://t.co/HrnRWnWKgs

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Book Cover for: Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World, Daniel Sherrell

Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World

Daniel Sherrell
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

I wrote about Daniel Sherrell's new book "Warmth," climate change memoirs, narrativity, religious feelings—and more! https://t.co/BewhhuBQ0h

Paperback, 2021

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker

Cassandra at the Wedding

Dorothy Baker
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

Dorothy Baker’s very great “Cassandra at the Wedding” has me questioning what happened to the brandy & soda. Unorthodox drinkers everywhere demand to know!! https://t.co/b21K3ea1rC

Paperback, 2012

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Unquiet, Linn Ullmann

Unquiet

Linn Ullmann
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

It’s incredible to me that Ingmar Bergman always wanted to make a film called “Laid & Slayed in Eldorado Valley” (from Linn Ullmann’s “Unquiet”) https://t.co/w1j8e5f17g

Paperback, 2020

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Maafa, Harmony Holiday

Maafa

Harmony Holiday
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

Wrote a little note about Harmony Holiday's new book "Maafa." It's inventive, boundary-pushing work—well worth reading. https://t.co/shKDhBFhVF

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Generations: A Memoir, Lucille Clifton

Generations: A Memoir

Lucille Clifton
David S WallaceDavid S Wallace

I tried to say something about Lucille Clifton and her memoir "Generations." A really great book! https://t.co/qmklI3PMvy

Paperback, 2021

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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