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Dr. Gunner C Taylor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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PhD candidate at the University of Delaware, studying ~Weird Histories~ in contemporary American culture. Co-producer for Pod45, the @AtPost45 podcast. He/Him.

18 books
Book Cover for: Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists, Raymond Williams

Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists

Raymond Williams
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I am now the proud owner of two copies of Raymond Williams's The Politics of Modernism

Paperback, 2007

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
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From the new Amazon Show Three Pines: "In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the villagers said 'hooray the monster is dead,' but he was not just dead, they killed him" and then later, "She was Frankenstein's monster, a patchwork of all their fears"

Paperback, 2003

$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Frankenstein Mary Shelley: The Modern Prometheus: Frankenstein's Monster, Mary Shelley

Frankenstein Mary Shelley: The Modern Prometheus: Frankenstein's Monster

Mary Shelley
Dr. Gunner C TaylorDr. Gunner C Taylor

From the new Amazon Show Three Pines: "In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the villagers said 'hooray the monster is dead,' but he was not just dead, they killed him" and then later, "She was Frankenstein's monster, a patchwork of all their fears"

Paperback, 2010

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Holocaust in American Life, Peter Novick

The Holocaust in American Life

Peter Novick
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@_super_bass Some great stuff on this topic in Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life and some in Ken Burns's new doc

Paperback, 2000

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, Kim Kelly

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

Kim Kelly
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Had a great time this afternoon seeing @GrimKim talk about her new book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor today at @MakingWorldsBks https://t.co/AycmG5jiGn

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth

Lost in the Funhouse

John Barth
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@mitchtherieau Don DeLillo's John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice

Paperback, 1988

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Frankenstein

Shelley Mary
Dr. Gunner C TaylorDr. Gunner C Taylor

From the new Amazon Show Three Pines: "In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the villagers said 'hooray the monster is dead,' but he was not just dead, they killed him" and then later, "She was Frankenstein's monster, a patchwork of all their fears"

Paperback, 2014

$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
Dr. Gunner C TaylorDr. Gunner C Taylor

Hey Parable of the Sower is very good and in some ways very prescient, but did you know Octavia Butler wrote more than one book? And all of them are incredible?

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, Jesmyn Ward

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

Jesmyn Ward
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@lint_ax Oh and Kevin Young has a great essay on being/feeling Black and Rachel Dolezal in Jesmyn Ward's collection, The Fire This Time, "Blacker than Thou"

Paperback, 2017

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger is a novel brave enough to ask the question, what if two siblings were like, really messed up

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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