Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach 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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In the Suavity of the Rock (novel) forthcoming 6/24 with Splice @thisissplice See What I See: Essays https://t.co/MQRi1E6meX Editor: https://t.co/i7LiWqHcAs
Correction
Gabriel BlackwellGreg Gerke / Socrates on the BeachThe beginning of one of four short dazzling essays by Gabriel Blackwell, who wrote two of the best books of the last two years, CORRECTION and Doom Town. https://t.co/HaTqDE8Q4L https://t.co/uzh3KuUaXI
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J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing Volume 48
David AttwellGreg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach@platelet60 David Attwell’s J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing
Paperback, 1993
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
John Ford: The Man and His Films
Tag GallagherGreg Gerke / Socrates on the BeachIt will be nice when more people know this. Tag Gallagher--John Ford: The Man and His Films https://t.co/7E7Das4WbI
Paperback, 1988
$36.95$18.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rock: Poems
Wallace StevensGreg Gerke / Socrates on the BeachTo read again The Rock sequence by Wallace Stevens. Water pours from the crack—and I still haven't ranged over Susan Howe's "The mutinous unuttered t in "Moher" is raggeder than ruin." https://t.co/meZE1A5zQg
Paperback, 2020
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Round of Visits (1910)
Henry JamesGreg Gerke / Socrates on the BeachFrom Henry James's last story "A Round of Visits" (1910)—walking in NYC in winter. 112 tales...3 million words. The stories of that first/last decade are among the greatest: "The Beast in the Jungle" "The Jolly Corner" "The Bench of Desolation" "The Birthplace" "The Story In It" https://t.co/HRkxtpj59w
Paperback, 2012
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Art of Language: Selected Essays
Kenneth CoxGreg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach@EmmettStinson I'm all for the Zuck, but Ezra had his nose in just about everything. There's the whole Zuck/Bunting/Niedecker etc. brigade, which branches off Pound. Kenneth Cox's The Art of Language is mostly on them--one of the best books of poetry essays I've ever read.
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Lilies That Fester Smell Far Worse Than Weeds
Jenny RobertsGreg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach@nicoscosc The mark of great art--to be alienated by it. To love something too quickly..."Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
Paperback, 2006
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Hawthorne
Franklin RossGreg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach@FeelBookish Henry James wrote a "book" / "long essay" on Hawthorne, combining bio and critical comments. Maybe 200 pages.
Paperback, 2015
$5.38$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyGreg Gerke / Socrates on the BeachThis brief piece by Ryan Shelton is the best one I've seen on old Cormac (along with Dan Sinykin's), as it pushes into the ore of the sentences and brings out their elements, with a very keen glimpse into The Passenger. @AdFontesJournal https://t.co/RyuGvI1Fci
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Other Minds and Other Stories
Bennett SimsGreg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach@smswrites Other Minds and Other Stories--Bennett Sims, Two Dollar Radio; Garielle Lutz--Backwardness, SL/LD books
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book