Haolun Xu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Haolun Xu on XHaolun Xu is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. poet, fiction writer ⛅️ writing in: @NarrativeMag @JoylandMagazine @GuernicaMag and more— instagram: @/xuhaolun. sometimes makes films 🏖

The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro TanizakiI have finished reading The Makioka Sisters by Junichirō Tanizaki…. it was a major learning moment for me when it comes to writing and structure…. (also reading Kathleen Chisato Merken’s 1979 thesis on Tanizaki’s work…) https://t.co/hbKVZlrCvE
Paperback, 1995
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin“What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe Of Heaven.
Paperback, 2023
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Electric Light: Poems
Seamus Heaney“What’s in the sea and the waves that keeps you spellbound? Here earth breaks out in wildflowers, she rills and rolls, […] Come here to me. Let the mad white horses paw and pound the shore.” —Seamus Heaney, Electric Light. https://t.co/r3ojzDSX9m
Paperback, 2002
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
Carl Phillips“Closure is more comforting than self-abandon, in the long run. It feels good to lie in the middle of a field in the pitch dark, until it doesn't […].” —Carl Phillips, The Art of Daring. https://t.co/BSKUYUmImt
Paperback, 2014
$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco
K. IverCongratulations K. on your debut, over and over again— @k_ivertown— their collection SHORT FILM STARRING MY BELOVED’S RED BRONCO is available here, really really it is…so, so breathtaking. https://t.co/vDyPF3ga9N
Paperback, 2023
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stigmata: Escaping Texts
Hélène Cixous“Go away. I love your departures. I give you complete freedom.” —Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts.
Paperback, 2005
$28.99Member price:$27.54 + Free shipping5% off
Sea Change
Gina ChungI cannot say how happy I am that @ginathechung’s novel SEA CHANGE is out soon. I can’t wait to read it.. I am also so honored that she picked one of my poems as an epigraph— 🥲💫 https://t.co/D7tusVRxVI
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In the Pines
Alice Notley“He lay there dead with his eyes wide open. I'm supposed to say I saw that I screwed up. But all I see are flames. Is that him dead or is that me?” —In The Pines, Alice Notley.
Paperback, 2007
$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kokoro
Soseki Natsume@rosewaterframes Snow Country, by Yusanari Kawabata! Love In A Fallen City by Eileen Chang, Family by Ba Jin! Kokoro by Natsume Soseki!
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Intimacies, Received
Taneum BambrickI got “Intimacies, Received,” by @BambrickTaneum in the mail Sunday….. I have read it twice over now, and will continue to read for many years. It is a crucial and amazing book…. Thank you so much Taneum for writing this 😭💐🍓 https://t.co/hft5PWLnaC
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book