Jack Carey 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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I teach American studies @UofAlabama. @UGAHistory & @umhistory alum. From Baltimore, walking & reading my way through the South. Writing JIM CROW U (@JHUPress)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
Walker EvansJack CareyIf you want to have a wild experience, read the preface to LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN after reading some discourse about the value of the humanities.
Paperback, 2001
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William Eggleston: The Outlands
William EgglestonJack CareyJust a general comment that the holidays are coming up and there's a book of unseen William Eggleston photos accompanied by a Rachel Kushner story about to be published
Hardcover, 2021
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City of Bohane
Kevin BarryJack CareyNo one's dinner tonight is beating this order from Kevin Barry's CITY OF BOHANE. https://t.co/sWnmLmUjp1
Hardcover, 2012
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Sevastopol
Emilio FraiaJack CareyEmilio Fraia, translated by Zoë Perry, SEVASTOPOL. https://t.co/AgC3QZrL0G
Paperback, 2021
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The Orchard Keeper
Cormac McCarthyJack CareyFrom Cormac McCarthy's first novel, THE ORCHARD KEEPER, a dank sentence of catnip for any fellow myth-and-region freaks: “On account of back then this was the North I reckon.”
Paperback, 1993
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Edge of Darkness: Four Seasons Book One
Jerry SchellhammerJack CareyBrowsing local bookstores is by far the most pleasurable way to stay up to date on your regional studies. Always love visiting Four Seasons Books in Shepherdstown, WV, and I'm looking forward to diving into this just in time for fall syllabus-making. https://t.co/b3bsrGMtHI
Paperback, 2019
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Joan Didion: What She Means
Joan DidionJack CareyNeither an original nor a surprising comment, but JOAN DIDION: WHAT SHE MEANS, curated by Hilton Als @hammer_museum is an amazing thing to take in
Hardcover, 2022
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Photographs
Eudora WeltyJack CareyPleasant way to lose your train of thought: talking about Eudora Welty on the Fairchilds while gesticulating wildly at Hugh Mangum photographs. Happy Friday everyone!
Hardcover, 2019
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Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
Rickie Lee JonesJack CareyVery excited to be teaching something this fall that allows me to assign Rickie Lee Jones's LAST CHANCE TEXACO. Such a great memoir.
Paperback, 2022
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A Turn in the South
V. S. NaipaulJack CareyI've spent most of today with V. S. Naipaul's A TURN IN THE SOUTH. Wonderful book to read as you're processing the funk of place-lag.
Paperback, 1990
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