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Gabe Habash Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“I swear on my honor or whatever.” - Bolaño

29 books
Book Cover for: The Water Statues, Fleur Jaeggy

The Water Statues

Fleur Jaeggy
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🐌 🐌 Fleur Jaeggy (from THE WATER STATUES) https://t.co/sm94qqPR29

Paperback, 2021

$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ninety-Nine Stories of God, Joy Williams

Ninety-Nine Stories of God

Joy Williams
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Mary Ruefle’s THE MOST OF IT is going on my shelf of favorite very short prose books, next to Joy Williams’s NINETY-NINE STORIES OF GOD, Daniil Kharms’s TODAY I WROTE NOTHING, and Kafka’s ZÜRAU APHORISMS • “Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.” https://t.co/zLli1kkphp

Paperback, 2018

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Escapes: Stories, Joy Williams

Escapes: Stories

Joy Williams
Gabe HabashGabe Habash

Mary Ruefle’s THE MOST OF IT is going on my shelf of favorite very short prose books, next to Joy Williams’s NINETY-NINE STORIES OF GOD, Daniil Kharms’s TODAY I WROTE NOTHING, and Kafka’s ZÜRAU APHORISMS • “Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.” https://t.co/zLli1kkphp

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Book Cover for: Acting Class, Nick Drnaso

Acting Class

Nick Drnaso
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I talked with Nick Drnaso about his new graphic novel & SABRINA follow-up, ACTING CLASS https://t.co/hGHIosVg97

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: You Are Having a Good Time, Amie Barrodale

You Are Having a Good Time

Amie Barrodale
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@xtx33 You Are Having a Good Time by Amie Barrodale is one of my all-time favorites. Even the epigraph is memorable https://t.co/uXJz4Bcxzw

Paperback, 2016

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, John Berger

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

John Berger
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"And although it was running slowly, it ran for its life. Sometimes that can happen." (from John Berger's And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos) https://t.co/cZ9nMj6AtX

Paperback, 2026

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Most of It, Mary Ruefle

The Most of It

Mary Ruefle
Gabe HabashGabe Habash

Mary Ruefle’s THE MOST OF IT is going on my shelf of favorite very short prose books, next to Joy Williams’s NINETY-NINE STORIES OF GOD, Daniil Kharms’s TODAY I WROTE NOTHING, and Kafka’s ZÜRAU APHORISMS • “Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.” https://t.co/zLli1kkphp

Out of stock

Book Cover for: Optic Nerve, Maria Gainza

Optic Nerve

Maria Gainza
Gabe HabashGabe Habash

OPTIC NERVE is one of my favorite novels of the decade & I can’t wait to pick up María Gainza’s new novel https://twitter.com/CatapultStory/status/1415372942427361282

Paperback, 2020

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: From the Shadows, Juan José Millás

From the Shadows

Juan José Millás
Gabe HabashGabe Habash

Periodic reminder that FROM THE SHADOWS by Juan José Millás is one of the best novels of the century. https://t.co/duj6YPYH3C

Paperback, 2019

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Very Cold People, Sarah Manguso

Very Cold People

Sarah Manguso
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“Everyone eats a peck of dirt in their life.” I love Sarah Manguso’s work and her first novel, VERY COLD PEOPLE, is just as wonderful as her nonfiction https://t.co/ij2GRweQCm

Paperback, 2023

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book