Elissa Altman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Elissa Altman on X
Elissa Altman is a food writer. Author of On Permission (upcoming), Motherland, Poor Man’s Feast, Treyf, many essays, memoir faculty, editor. For speaking engagements @AUAgency
Our Souls at Night
Kent HarufElissa Altman@svbowlin Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night
Paperback, 2016
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
An American Childhood
Annie DillardElissa Altman@ANNELAMOTT Binding glue is terrifically delicious. Petey very much enjoyed a first edition of Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood.
Paperback, 1988
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Still Life with Remorse
Maira KalmanElissa AltmanPlease join me in celebrating the publication of the wonderful/remarkable/brilliant/lifesaving/heart-/soul-saving/spirit-saving humanist, @mairakalman ‘s new book, Still Life with Remorse. This is a magnificent, heart-filling, heartbreaking, deeply personal visual memoir...
Hardcover, 2024
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Maggie SmithElissa AltmanThis is a magnificent memoir... written in a way that only @maggiesmithpoet could write it: with attention to rhythm and language, sound and story, the narrator stepping in and out of the telling. Utterly transformative, hopeful, beautifully lyrical.
Paperback, 2024
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Girl's Story
Annie ErnauxElissa Altman“I am endowed by shame’s vast memory, more detailed and implacable than any other, a gift unique to shame.” - Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story
Paperback, 2020
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Small World
Laura ZigmanElissa AltmanConnecticut friends: please join me tomorrow for a conversation with @LauraZigman in celebration of her amazing new novel, SMALL WORLD. 4pm @HickoryStickBS in Washington Depot @TheNewtownBee @fairfieldpatch @thelct https://t.co/P0pCnBJpva
Paperback, 2024
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Later: My Life at the Edge of the World
Paul LisickyElissa AltmanThird time reading @Paul_Lisicky ‘s Later. Each time, I feel it differently, and remember it differently. The distinct smell of the bay settling over Commercial and Pearl, long before I was ever part of @FAWCCapeCod. This book is just stunning. https://t.co/lnvYvRJO8t
Paperback, 2020
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Age of Overwhelm: Strategies for the Long Haul
Laura Van Dernoot LipskyElissa AltmanShould be required reading by every American. This 2018 book should have hit every bestseller list in the country.
Paperback, 2018
$20.95Member price:$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Goodbye Without Leaving
Laurie ColwinElissa AltmanI love it when great musicians also turn out to be great writers. Not at all surprising, but totally delightful reading this great @KirkusReviews. I’m reminded of Laurie Colwin’s Goodbye Without Leaving from 1990, which is an all-time favorite music/love story. I have a feeling… https://t.co/m6yCw0OUNV
Paperback, 2021
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fellowship Point
Alice Elliott DarkElissa Altman@bhurley I wouldn’t call it messy but Alice Elliott Dark’s Fellowship Point is extraordinary in every way
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book