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Gabriel Bump Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Gabriel Bump is a novelist. Everywhere You Don't Belong, The New Naturals, Don’t Stop Snowing @AlgonquinBooks Asst. Prof. UNC-Chapel Hill

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Book Cover for: The Day the Sun Died, Yan Lianke

The Day the Sun Died

Yan Lianke
Gabriel BumpGabriel Bump

@RickAmicon @bartlebytaco @_ryanruby_ @JackHoughteling @JenLouiseWilson Really can’t go wrong with anything from any of them. If I had to choose just one: The Day The Sun Died by Yan Lianke

Paperback, 2019

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Liberation Day: Stories, George Saunders

Liberation Day: Stories

George Saunders
Gabriel BumpGabriel Bump

I needed Lewis Nordan’s writing when I was younger. This mix of beauty and horror. A master of juxtaposition. Between Wolf Whistle and his short stories, feels like Mississippi George Saunders. And scenic beauty all over the place. https://t.co/WE5eAQkNxP

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Logos, Mark de Silva

The Logos

Mark de Silva
Gabriel BumpGabriel Bump

Started reading The Logos by Mark De Silva last night. Entranced. Read this book if an artist walking around, making art, and noticing stuff is your thing. Something great on every page. And there are a thousand pages. https://t.co/lLzD9wkrkL

Paperback, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky, Bland Simpson

North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky

Bland Simpson
Gabriel BumpGabriel Bump

There’s a ton of talented writers down here. Real Real North Carolina writers though, imo: Tyree Daye, Jill McCorkle, Bland Simpson, Lee Smith, Randall Kenan. https://t.co/oCxHgL7S9k

Hardcover, 2021

$37.00$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Everywhere You Don't Belong, Gabriel Bump

Everywhere You Don't Belong

Gabriel Bump
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RT @nytimesbooks: Gabriel Bump, the author of “Everywhere You Don’t Belong,” was inspired by the writer Denis Johnson. “When I learned John…

Paperback, 2021

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenidge

Libertie

Kaitlyn Greenidge
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Half-awake at an airport. Thinking about good art and bad art and newly incensed that Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge isn’t the book of the year, what everyone’s tweeting about.

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wolf Whistle, Lewis Nordan

Wolf Whistle

Lewis Nordan
Gabriel BumpGabriel Bump

I needed Lewis Nordan’s writing when I was younger. This mix of beauty and horror. A master of juxtaposition. Between Wolf Whistle and his short stories, feels like Mississippi George Saunders. And scenic beauty all over the place. https://t.co/WE5eAQkNxP

Paperback, 2003

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt

The Last Samurai

Helen DeWitt
Gabriel BumpGabriel Bump

Come hang! We’ll probably talk about my two current Ending obsessions. Mount Chicago by Adam Levin and The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. And, of course, Sula and Denis Johnson. https://t.co/5qHnSrXgMk

Paperback, 2016

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy
Gabriel BumpGabriel Bump

Gonna start tweeting things like “The Moviegoer by Walker Percy is not a serious book” or “The only serious MacArthur list was ‘88 when Charles Burnett, Naomi Pierce, Max Roach, AND Thomas Pynchon won.” Gonna melt my brain. Watch this space.

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: We Imagined It Was Rain, Andrew Siegrist

We Imagined It Was Rain

Andrew Siegrist
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This was a great year for collections! Voting was hard. Congratulations to these gifts from @blgtylr, @dantielwmoniz, @MauriceRuffin, @livesinpages, and @jocelynjohnson. My sleeper favorite: Andrew Siegrist’s We Imagined It Was Rain. https://t.co/BLBExXfG6n

Paperback, 2021

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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