Jacob Wren 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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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim Authenticity is a Feeling Rich and Poor Polyamorous Love Song PME-ART The Air Contains Honey
Last Words from Montmartre
Qiu MiaojinJacob Wren"Another paradox: Often the one most plagued with lust is the one most capable of restraining it. The monk and the philanderer are likely to be the same person." - Qiu Miaojin, Last Words From Montmartre
Paperback, 2014
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Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
Brian DillonJacob Wren"I want obliquity, essays that approach their targets, for there must be targets, slantwise, or with a hail of conflicted attitudes." - Brian Dillon, Essayism
Paperback, 2018
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Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Kelefa SannehJacob Wren"A song about anguish is not necessarily any more meaningful than a song about partying, let alone better." - Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels
Paperback, 2022
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Just Like I Like It
Danielle LaFranceJacob Wren"If the novel has a plot, it’s located in the cemetery" – Danielle LaFrance, Just Like I Like It
Paperback, 2019
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Francisco
Alison Mills NewmanJacob Wren"life ain’t no hollywood production (no matter how much money they might spend to make me think it is.)" – Alison Mills Newman, Francisco
Paperback, 2023
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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
Alexis Pauline GumbsJacob Wren"who said you were not their favourite song, just the song that happened to be on, that they could not turn off lest they remember their own silence?" – Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Spill
Paperback, 2016
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Pamela: A Novel
Pamela LuJacob Wren"The persistent Romantic image of a lone hero impacting the world with his passion hardly applied to us because no matter how passionately we hurled ourselves at it, the world was always prepared to dodge." – Pamela Lu, Pamela: A Novel
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Calamities
Renee GladmanJacob Wren"…teaching became something that happens in a trance state, and semesters were one trance long." - Renee Gladman, Calamities
Paperback, 2016
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Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
René DaumalJacob Wren"A knife is neither true nor false. But someone who grasps it by the blade is truly in error." – René Daumal, Mount Analogue
Paperback, 2019
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. ButlerJacob Wren"Belief initiates and guides action – Or it does nothing." – Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
Paperback, 2019
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