Jane Hammons 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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Distinguished Teaching Award UC Berkeley; Citizen Cherokee Nation; taker of photos; from Roswell; words @AkashicBooks @CJR @Contrary @hippocampusmag #binders

Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
Casey Parks
@AssayJournal Diary of A Misfit: A Memoir and A Mystery, Casey Parks
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ordinary Notes
Christina Sharpe
"I want acts and accounts of care as shared and distributed risk, as mass refusals of the unbearable life, as total rejections of the dead future." Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns #SundaySentence
Hardcover, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
#FridayReads just started Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle fiction still weeping my way through Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin nonfiction reading & reading Whereas, Layli Long Soldier poetry
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Kissing Bug
Daisy Hernández
Interesting, informative essay review of The Kissing Bug by @daisyhernandez. Next up on my to-read list Powerful and Personal Tale of the Kissing Bug and Its Deadly Cargo – Mother Jones https://t.co/2B5u3TJGRG
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel Volume 3
Louis Owens
@JakeSkeets Louis Owens' introduction to Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel (1992) is masterful: autobiographical, analytical, academic, personal. He is introducing his book as well as himself and some theory, so it also serves as an overview of the writers he covers.
Paperback, 1994
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Alexander Chee
"When we reach the Mint, we throw pennies painted red over the sides of the fence: blood money was the idea, and the very innocence of the gesture stings at me." Alexander Chee, "1989" in How To Write An Autobiographical Novel #SundaySentence
Paperback, 2018
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nox
Anne Carson
@AssayJournal Anne Carson’s fascinating accordion book Nox https://t.co/PCgiQ6GaHg
Hardcover, 2010
$55.00$30.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Dominoes, New Edition: Level 3: 1,000-Word Vocabularysherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four
Arthur Doyle
It was half-past five before Holmes returned. He was bright, eager, and in excellent spirits, a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the blackest depression. - The Sign Of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle #literatureclock https://t.co/gI0uqYNrJT
Paperback, 2010
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ordinary Notes
Christina Sharpe
"I want acts and accounts of care as shared and distributed risk, as mass refusals of the unbearable life, as total rejections of the dead future." Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns #SundaySentence
Hardcover, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Water Knife
Paolo Bacigalupi
The Water Knife is excellent. I barely read it as science fiction when it first came out in 2015--having lived my pretty long life in NM, CA and TX. https://t.co/BM8ynVNjDO
Paperback, 2016
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book