formerly @gplewis 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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the past becomes more and more aversive, the interior horizons collapse and truncate down and only exist as a discrete crystalline jumble of longing and rage
The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Cormac McCarthyformerly @gplewis“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road https://t.co/bTK5xZa9dR
Paperback, 2007
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Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
Tao Linformerly @gplewis“pay attention—not to celebrities and advertisements but to the poor and homeless and indigenous and underprivileged.” — Tao Lin, Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change remembering the idea that “the most important choice you make is where you direct others’ eyes”
Paperback, 2018
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guinformerly @gplewis“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness https://t.co/gFSnYcZQFb
Paperback, Mass Market, 1987
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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Henry Millerformerly @gplewis“… when you have expressed yourself to the fullest, then and only then will it dawn upon you that everything has already been expressed, not in words alone but in deed, and that all you need really do is say Amen!” ― Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch https://t.co/k5fUp1ejI8
Paperback, 1957
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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilkeformerly @gplewis“He is the most fortunate of men who can trace an unbroken connection between the end of his life and the beginning.” — Goethe, as cited in Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (Commentary, Note 3, Page 12) https://t.co/4VkbGYOrnP
Paperback, 2018
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