Devin Gael Kelly 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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Poet, Writer, High School Teacher! | In This Quiet Church of Night I Say Amen (@CCMPress) | Work in @Longreads, @guardian, @LitHub, more | he/him
Punks
John KeeneDevin Gael KellyFor my newsletter today, I wrote about a beautiful poem from John Keene’s “Punks,” which is a really great book. I wrote about love, too. The complex everything-ness of it. https://ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/john-keenes-beatitude
Paperback, 2021
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays
Barry LopezDevin Gael KellyThis paragraph from Barry Lopez’s posthumous “Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World” feels like such a generous blueprint for how to move through & among the world https://t.co/dXbXiAj0ac
Paperback, 2023
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In Memory of Memory
Maria StepanovaDevin Gael Kelly“I have had no success, only the usual feeling of walking into yet another empty green field and realizing once again that the absence of an answer was the answer...” — Maria Stepanova (from “In Memory of Memory,” translated by Sasha Dugdale) https://t.co/YWvC0IYB8B
Paperback, 2021
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Everything
Robert T. WoodDevin Gael Kelly“Does it have to be true, that everything / we touch, we break a little?” — Robert Wood Lynn (@RobertWoodLynn) https://t.co/g0tVs1dCDF
Paperback, 2006
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Horizon
Barry LopezDevin Gael KellyBarry Lopez, from “Horizon” https://t.co/VnF2tURzrf
Paperback, 2020
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Bewilderment
Richard PowersDevin Gael KellyLove this moment from Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” — https://t.co/qXFr99fwKm
Paperback, 2022
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Giovanni's Room
James BaldwinDevin Gael KellyOn James Baldwin’s birthday, a few favorite sentences from Giovanni’s Room, a perfect novel — “the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.” https://t.co/1D2QlgAHDM
Paperback, 2013
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Bewilderment
Richard PowersDevin Gael KellyLove this moment from Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” — https://t.co/qXFr99fwKm
Hardcover, 2021
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Water I Won't Touch
Kayleb Rae CandrilliDevin Gael KellyFor my newsletter today, I wrote about a poem from Kayleb Rae Candrilli's "Water I Won't Touch," & the way it reminds me of the beauty that comes when you attempt to do small things with great care & intention. https://t.co/FDWki5Em04
Paperback, 2021
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Teenager
Bud SmithDevin Gael KellyRT @Bud_Smith: On my novel, Teenager “There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is perfect.” —Bill Callahan
Paperback, 2022
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