Dinty W. Moore Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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It Is the Mark of an Educated Mind to Be Able to Entertain a: Thought Without Accepting It. - Aristotle
Thoughful Journals
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
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Fox 8: A Story
George Saunders
"There’s something really interesting about this notion that there is a below-the-surface part of the mind participating in the writing of a story, and that what we call ‘process’ is about getting out of the way of that part of the mind.” ~ George Saunders
Hardcover, 2018
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
41-Love: A Memoir
Scarlett Thomas
A Review of Scarlett Thomas’ 41-Love https://t.co/LBh40MqIHO
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Where Are the Snows: Poems
Kathleen Rooney
Finding Joy in the Struggle: Kathleen Rooney’s “Where Are the Snows” https://t.co/wOXXYpy1Oh
Paperback, 2022
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir
Aileen Weintraub
A Review of Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir by Aileen Weintraub https://t.co/Q1TLXdjhpu
Paperback, 2022
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Melissa Febos
"The first few pages of @MelissaFebos Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative hit hard, and I started to vibrate, emotionally." ~ @iambrianwatson #memoir https://t.co/1nxJ6RKFDv
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Night at the Fiestas: Stories
Kirstin Valdez Quade
QAE Short Prose Contest Prize: $1,008.15 + Publication Judge: Kirstin Valdez Quade Submit up to three previously unpublished pieces of 500 words or fewer. Send us your best prose poems, short-short stories, micro-essays, etc. @qaejournal #flash https://t.co/kR7D2jGFxZ https://t.co/5AY2958fIq
Paperback, 2016
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays
Jill Christman
A Review of Jill Christman’s If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays https://t.co/89beMAorgS
Paperback, 2022
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stories: All-New Tales
Neil Gaiman
"Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you." ~ Neil Gaiman
Paperback, 2011
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gone the Hard Road: A Memoir
Lee Martin
"Writing a memoir is an act of love ... because it requires empathy and compassion. An act of love because it strives to tell the truth in all its complexity. " ~ Lee Martin / @LeeMartinAuthor
Hardcover, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book