Dr. Vik Shirley 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. PhD ‘DarkHumour&Surreal’. Bks @Haverthorn @SublunaryEds @H_G_Press. Associate Ed +Publicity @SublunaryEds, Surreal-Absurd @Mercuriusmagaz1+@ShearsmanBooks
Christine
Stephen KingDr. Vik ShirleyFun to rewatch John Carpenter’s Christine (1983) (based on Stephen King’s novel obvs) recently. Have had Siouxsie & the Banshees’s Christine as an earworm since. Not feat. in film I should add. Frickin’ ace tune. Can’t get Christine out of my head at mo. Maybe it’s a McVie thing. https://t.co/XXKr23BoGn
Paperback, Mass Market, 2023
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life Is Elsewhere
Milan KunderaDr. Vik ShirleyFound poem. From Milan Kundera’s Life is Elsewhere. https://t.co/Tpk2ndMYYU
Paperback, 2000
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dead Girls
Selva AlmadaDr. Vik ShirleyThe Serre was phenomenal @LesFugitives. All three stories. Third story The Wishing Table insanely good, def not for the prudish/faint hearted, haha. From France to Argentina, next up, hard hitting journalist fiction, Selva Almada’s Dead Girls, tr.Annie McDermott @CharcoPress.🇫🇷🇦🇷 https://t.co/pHnrgHmd8s
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Houseguest: And Other Stories
Amparo DávilaDr. Vik ShirleyJust read & next up. Thoroughly enjoyed Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest, tr. Audrey Harris & Matthew Gleeson @NewDirections. Now on to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s ‘fantastic & blackly comic philosophical fables’, tr. Joanne Turnbull @nyrbclassics (thanks @postpran for the rec!) https://t.co/sL7MJLTaGl
Paperback, 2018
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kafkaesque: Fourteen Stories
Franz KafkaDr. Vik ShirleyCan Xue’s “anxiety dream” of a novella, Mystery Train, tr. @natascha_bruce is here! Trademark menace, fear & paranoia in all its surreal, grotesque, Kafkaesque glory, from most prominent author of experimental fiction in China & only woman associated w/male-dominated avant-garde. https://t.co/27MG4dQQnv
Paperback, 2020
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Owlish
Dorothy TseDr. Vik ShirleyExcited for Owlish by Dorothy Tse, translated by @natascha_bruce, published @FitzcarraldoEds in Feb! ‘Owlish is so delightfully creepy, wonderful and strange.’ — Camilla Grudova, author of Children of Paradise https://t.co/CrPHJAYmUw https://t.co/aYLYfu0K9p
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hit Parade of Tears: Stories
Izumi SuzukiDr. Vik ShirleyI will be writing some words on Izumi Suzuki’s Hit Parade of Tears @VersoBooks in my next Firmament mag column (Commitment to Chush). You can subscribe to this quarterly @sublunaryeds mag, edited by @jess_sequeira, from anywhere in the world, right here: https://t.co/G5kUpiYRtc https://t.co/NDag0q5Vw8
Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems
John AshberyDr. Vik Shirley“..as though to embarrass the idea of stopping.” ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 For anyone suffering from John Ashbery withdrawals today. A cheeky lil fix. From Hotel Lautréamont (1992). In Notes from the Air, Selected Later Poems. https://t.co/dm8mAUdYRE
Paperback, 2008
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Traumatic Surreal: Germanophone Women Artists and Surrealism After the Second World War
Patricia AllmerDr. Vik ShirleyLooking forward to this launch at 5. Lecture and Q & A with Patricia Allmer on her new book The Traumatic Surreal: Germanophone women artists and Surrealism after the Second World War @ISSS_Surrealism. https://t.co/UNxZjIFXJJ
Paperback, 2024
$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dice Cup
Max JacobDr. Vik ShirleyFrom @Shadow2train’s new translation of Max Jacob’s The Dice Cup @Wakefield_Press. 🖤 https://t.co/ZLwCrvcgzW
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book