Full Stop 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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Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia. An online publication of literary criticism focusing on debuts, works in translation, and books published by small presses.
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo YoshinoFull StopDeborah Iwabuchi interviews @bnavasky about translating How Do You Live? (@WorkmanPub), the 1937 classic by Genzaburo Yoshino, favorite of Hayao Miyazaki. https://t.co/JOfeGhNj5K
Paperback, 2023
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Silentiary
Antonio Di BenedettoFull Stop"An assault by noise is no different than an assault by physical force." Patrick Duane reviews Antonio Di Benedetto's THE SILENTIARY from @nyrbclassics translated by @estherlallen: https://t.co/gaHQfFdokz https://t.co/FAMueSzhuD
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fledgling
Octavia E. ButlerFull Stop"FLEDGLING (@7StoriesPress) is a quietly scary, utterly singular vampire novel that maps the relations between the human and extra-human at their most blurry edges." Blair Johnson reviews Octavia Butler's FLEDGLING. https://t.co/k0R6NNrdQc https://t.co/pNTw50Tr0w
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Acting Class
Nick DrnasoFull Stop"With comics, for better or worse, you can’t really hide from who you are." For our latest interview, Paul Morton talked w/ Nick Drnaso—the first graphic novelist to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize—about his new book, ACTING CLASS (@DandQ): https://t.co/8EDl62W7sx. https://t.co/2SAT5V4Bfd
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Customs
Alia CroleyFull Stop"Does the speaker’s desire result from or precede the condition of being an immigrant in a hostile society?" @angelosmao reviews CUSTOMS by #SolmazSharif (@GraywolfPress): https://t.co/3Qid9WvUFa https://t.co/9i9rnPkwMC
Paperback, 2021
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Epic Annette: A Heroine's Tale
Anne WeberFull Stop"Annette risked her life for a country that imprisoned and ridiculed her . . ." Emily Hershman reviews Anne Weber's EPIC ANNETTE, a retelling of the life of French communist Anne Beaumanoir in verse, tr. from the German by Tess Lewis (@PressIndigoThe): https://t.co/0RCexYlgg9.
Paperback, 2023
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Little Foxes Took Up Matches
Katya KazbekFull Stop"Kazbek weaves the fairy tale’s threads into a larger queer narrative to complicate questions of gender and sexuality." @camclind reviews LITTLE FOXES TOOK UP MATCHES by Katya Kazbek (@Tin_House): https://t.co/AaSofLuD9n. https://t.co/bsPMgVUYHF
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Flowers of Buffoonery
Osamu DazaiFull Stop"This short book is the seed from which the later masterpiece emerged." @LOLGluckstadt reviews Osamu Dazai's THE FLOWERS OF BUFFOONERY, tr. by Sam Bett (@NewDirections), written 13 years before its bestselling sequel(?)/prequel(?), NO LONGER HUMAN: https://t.co/DXkbohUpeN.
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lucky Breaks
Yevgenia BelorusetsFull StopLUCKY BREAKS (@NewDirections) by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, reviewed by Caroline Reagan. https://t.co/uFuOVMO9su https://t.co/azreLuxPEQ
Paperback, 2022
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No Longer Human
Osamu DazaiFull Stop"This short book is the seed from which the later masterpiece emerged." @LOLGluckstadt reviews Osamu Dazai's THE FLOWERS OF BUFFOONERY, tr. by Sam Bett (@NewDirections), written 13 years before its bestselling sequel(?)/prequel(?), NO LONGER HUMAN: https://t.co/DXkbohUpeN.
Hardcover, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book