GrubStreet Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Cost of Living: Essays
Emily Maloney#DeptofCongrats: Memoir Incubator Grad @evenincambridge’s review of @emilyfmaloney’s COST OF LIVING was published in @Pangyrus. She thanks @anrielizabeth for her probing editorial questions and @AlysiaAbbott for bringing this book to her attention. ✍️ http://ow.ly/cKxQ50JqJlM
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Guillotine: Poems
Eduardo C. CorralWrite six poems in six weeks with @BreezyJanae! Share two poems a week and look at work by Nicole Sealey, Malcolm Tariq, Eduardo C. Corral, Eloisa Amezcua, and Keith S. Wilson among others. https://t.co/QLwFctmyge https://t.co/4gavcJADux
Paperback, 2020
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Storytelling for Pantsers: How to Write and Revise Your Novel Without an Outline
Annalisa C. Parent.@AnnalisaParent is the author of STORYTELLING FOR PANTSERS, and her work has appeared in Huffington Post Live, PBS, NYT, & more! You can catch her virtual session "Neuroscience: A Writer’s Secret Weapon to FINISH that Novel" at #Muse22 on April 28th. http://ow.ly/hK6l50IKLVM https://t.co/yC7PNHzcnT
Paperback, 2017
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
First Course
Jenn Bouchard#DeptofCongrats Congrats to Jenn Bouchard, whose debut novel, First Course, received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Paris Book Festival in the General Fiction category. ✍🎉️ http://ow.ly/u2Kz50GjDln
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Objects of Desire: Stories
Clare Sestanovich.@HarvardBooks & GrubStreet welcome writer & @NewYorker editor @csestanovich for a discussion of her debut story collection, OBJECTS OF DESIRE. She'll be joined in conversation by @AnnieBishai, Assistant Editor at @AAKnopf & editor of OBJECTS OF DESIRE. http://ow.ly/Y9HW50Fm9R0 https://t.co/EY05Pg3g0q
Paperback, 2022
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Journey
DkCongrats to Essay Incubator alum @CrazyS, whose essay "A Daily Question" has been published by Modern Parent (http://ow.ly/UlnY50FiFKk). In addition, Ms. Luke's essay "Success is a Journey" has been published by @Medium publication Cry! ✍🎉️
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Kestrel
Julie Spotted Eagle Horse Martineau#DeptofCongrats: @diled’s short story "Pennyroyal, Savin and Tansy" was published in Kestrel. It is the fourth story from her book COLOR OF STARS, which is seeking an agent. ✍ https://t.co/5ki0apNXp4
Paperback, 2019
$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller"I knew that interpreting their relationship as romantic was a very old idea, and I was angry at the way homophobia was erasing this reading." via @guardian. Read more about author Madeline Miller's approach to her novel THE SONG OF ACHILLES: https://t.co/OBdBw7iX5i
Paperback, 2012
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England
David J. Baker#DeptofCongrats: @sarahmseltzer's debut novel, THE SINGER SISTERS, will be published by @Flatironbooks. She worked on it in the "Novel Revision Intensive" and "Get Ready for Submission" Online: On-Demand classes. ✍ https://t.co/GT7MhOhkQj
Hardcover, 2009
$75.00Member price:$75.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Cold Hard Light
Christopher Amenta#DeptofCongrats: Christopher Amenta's debut novel, THE COLD HARD LIGHT, is now available from @BlackstoneAudio. Set in present-day Boston, this spare and bracing literary debut tells the story of a new father who falls into the grip of obsession. ✍️ https://t.co/cm3Etpj4zD
Paperback, 2023
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book