if you can’t find John Degen, look in the lake Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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if you can’t find John Degen, look in the lake on X
Sleeping dog. Novelist, poet, rock & bird nerd. He/him. CEO @twuc, Chair @IntAuthors - Opinions entirely my own, so don’t even. @jkdegen@mstdn.ca

Blood in the Water: A True Story of Small-Town Revenge
Silver Donald Cameron
My dear departed colleague, Silver Donald Cameron, wrote “Blood in the Water”, about the killing of Phillip Boudreau. This crime is now an episode of the @CriminalShow podcast, and Silver Don gets a mention. https://t.co/pgoHuVAtRo
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Nicholson Baker
@KevOnStage I recommend “Double Fold” by Nicholson Baker for a history of microfiche and it’s many problems. https://t.co/yA7ibDi5s5
Paperback, 2002
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Be Brief and Tell Them Everything
Brad Listi
I am enjoying this book right now, with a gin and tonic. Be Brief and Tell Them Everything, by Brad Listi. @otherppl https://t.co/aYYsIoUBob
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Play It as It Lays
Joan Didion
Bought in Greenwich Village the day I was supposed to meet Joan Didion for dinner. She was ill. It didn’t happen. Play it as it lays. https://t.co/4MhiKMCpJj
Paperback, 2005
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Middlemarch: Red Premium Edition
George Eliot
Attempting to divide authors, publishers & libraries in order to help Internet Archive get away with industrial-strength piracy, Fight For The Future seems to have dug up Middlemarch author George Eliot & added her to their open letter. Not in the least astroturfy. Nope. https://t.co/6H28vyRbYt
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
Attempting to divide authors, publishers & libraries in order to help Internet Archive get away with industrial-strength piracy, Fight For The Future seems to have dug up Middlemarch author George Eliot & added her to their open letter. Not in the least astroturfy. Nope. https://t.co/6H28vyRbYt
Paperback, 2003
$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
@ronnabloom Book length — Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
Paperback, 2006
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book