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Emily Van Duyne Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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LOVING SYLVIA PLATH: A RECLAMATION forthcoming w/W.W. Norton & Co. 2022 NJ Individual Artist Fellow. Fulbright Scholar. https://t.co/rpKdCcVCrE

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Book Cover for: Silent Cities San Francisco: Hidden Histories of the Region's Cemeteries, Jessica Ferri

Silent Cities San Francisco: Hidden Histories of the Region's Cemeteries

Jessica Ferri
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

Tomorrow at 5 pm PST/8 pm EST, I’ll be talking on Instagram Live with my dear friend @JessicaAFerri about her second book in her series about America’s cemeteries, Silent Cities: San Francisco. Follow @ silent_._cities on Instagram to tune in. https://t.co/hX4Tu9iuIR

Paperback, 2021

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Orlando, a Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition, Virginia Woolf

Orlando, a Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

Virginia Woolf
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

Also, omg, please spare me the comparison of Ted Hughes to Virginia Woolf's magnificent Orlando. How much can one woman stand on a Friday morning?

Paperback, 1973

$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed, Sara Gay Forden

House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

Sara Gay Forden
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

I’m taking my fat ass to see House of Gucci alone, and then I’m gonna eat oysters alone, while I read a Russian novel.

Paperback, 2001

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, Bell Hooks

Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work

Bell Hooks
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

My favorite bell hooks book is remembered rapture: the writer at work.

Paperback, 1999

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

Love that moment in Goodnight Moon when Margaret Wise Brown is like, Goodnight Nobody on a totally blank page to predict each innocent child’s coming existential dread and/or Robert Morris phase

Board Book, 1991

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement, Sylvia Plath

Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement

Sylvia Plath
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

I've been teaching my freshman to close read persona poems using poetry from Ariel. Today we did "Elm." Anyway, "Elm" is fucking terrifying and Sylvia Plath was a genius, this is the least surprising tweet I have ever made but I don't care because teaching a poem is thrilling.

Paperback, 2005

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Plath: Poems: Selected by Diane Wood Middlebrook, Sylvia Plath

Plath: Poems: Selected by Diane Wood Middlebrook

Sylvia Plath
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

I've been teaching my freshman to close read persona poems using poetry from Ariel. Today we did "Elm." Anyway, "Elm" is fucking terrifying and Sylvia Plath was a genius, this is the least surprising tweet I have ever made but I don't care because teaching a poem is thrilling.

Hardcover, 1998

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

American Girl doll of Sylvia Plath during The Bell Jar summer or bust.

Paperback, 2005

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Taste: My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci

Taste: My Life Through Food

Stanley Tucci
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

Stanley Tucci’s “Taste” has me wanting to quit writing & just cook all day & night.

Hardcover, 2021

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder

Nightbitch

Rachel Yoder
Emily Van DuyneEmily Van Duyne

Absolutely loved this interview with Rachel Yoder. And also loved her novel Nightbitch. https://t.co/M0OvQfidJo

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book