Evan Kindley 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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Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
Greil MarcusEvan Kindley@LukeEpplin This is basically what Greil Marcus’ book “Dead Elvis” is about
Paperback, 1999
$32.00Member price:$28.80 + Free shipping10% off
The Dial: 24
Marianne MooreEvan Kindley@scriblerian @msatweet Again I'm not immediately thinking of examples (sorry!), but I do really think this must have happened often. Marianne Moore's correspondence, from when she was managing editor of The Dial, might be a good place to look?
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Eliot After the Waste Land
Robert CrawfordEvan KindleyThought everyone might enjoy this account of an extremely awkward 1964 dinner date between T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx (from Robert Crawford’s “Eliot After The Waste Land”) https://t.co/q4sfXUCrsI
Paperback, 2023
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
John GuilloryEvan KindleyInteresting speculation about the prevalence of Latinate words in bureaucratic language, from John Guillory’s “Professing Criticism” https://t.co/dhq8l4D7nx
Paperback, 2022
$29.00Member price:$27.55 + Free shipping5% off
Transition
Emma BrookeEvan KindleyGreat satirical description of parent-teacher conferences, from Emma Frances Brooke's novel "Transition" (1895) https://t.co/8a8ujlFBWs
Paperback, 2025
$23.95Member price:$21.56 + Free shipping10% off
Crook Manifesto
Colson WhiteheadEvan KindleyShots fired (from Colson Whitehead’s “Crook Manifesto”) https://t.co/AN1ORCemBx
Paperback, 2024
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Songs and Satires: Poems
Edgar Lee MastersEvan Kindley@humanfranklin Buckner did an album of settings of Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology” poems back in the day, I remember
Hardcover, 2022
$31.95Member price:$28.75 + Free shipping10% off
The Novel and the Problem of New Life
Aaron MatzEvan KindleyWhy do modern novelists hate children? Great review by Lindsay Wilhelm of Aaron Matz's (also great) "The Novel and the Problem of New Life" https://t.co/N0tgQS360X
Paperback, 2022
$31.00Member price:$29.45 + Free shipping5% off
Invisible Man
Ralph EllisonEvan Kindley@leorobsonwriter @mervatim @_ryanruby_ @MortenHoiJensen Barbara Foley's "Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" is a great example of this
Hardcover, 1994
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Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
Lewis CarrollEvan Kindley@parabasis I see most of these names below already but as a kid I loved Jack Prelutsky, Ogden Nash, Gelett Burgess, and Dennis Lee. Also Lewis Carroll! Though his poems are best encountered in the context of the Alice books
Paperback, 2015
$8.95Member price:$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book