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Jane Hu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jane Hu is a critic, editor and professor. postdoctoral fellow @usc_sofh; editing @nplusonemag

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Book Cover for: Benefit, Siobhan Phillips

Benefit

Siobhan Phillips
Jane HuJane Hu

siobhan phillips's debut novel *benefit* is out today -- for every bookish girl who went to grad school wanting to write a dissertation on henry james, this one's for you 🌼 https://t.co/DrqNwksdf1

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What Maisie Knew: Original Classics and Annotated, Henry James

What Maisie Knew: Original Classics and Annotated

Henry James
Jane HuJane Hu

siobhan phillips's debut novel *benefit* is out today -- for every bookish girl who went to grad school wanting to write a dissertation on henry james, this one's for you 🌼 https://t.co/DrqNwksdf1

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Book Cover for: Romantic Comedy: Reese's Book Club, Curtis Sittenfeld

Romantic Comedy: Reese's Book Club

Curtis Sittenfeld
Jane HuJane Hu

Sittenfeld deftly toggles between deconstructing a well-worn genre and leaning into its most predictable beats. She does this, in part, by setting her novel in the entertainment industry and, more specifically, by making her protagonist a professional comedian...

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick, Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick

Kazuo Ishiguro
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my review of my dad Kazuo Ishiguro’s* novel Klara and the Sun for @nybooks ☀️ *not my biological dad https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/11/04/kazuo-ishiguro-klara-robot-woman/

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel
Jane HuJane Hu

Mantel's... most famous creation is arguably Thomas Cromwell, the ruthless, implacably organized antihero of the “Wolf Hall” trilogy, who is the fulcrum of a world-historical epic that features a cast of hundreds of major and minor characters.

Paperback, 2021

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How to Read Now: Essays, Elaine Castillo

How to Read Now: Essays

Elaine Castillo
Jane HuJane Hu

“How to Read Now” is not so much an instruction manual as an earnest invitation — “a question, open-ended,” she writes. “I, too, want to know how to read now.” What emerges is an engaging and provocative conversation with a playful interlocutor who wanted me…to talk back.

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Love at Six Thousand Degrees, Maki Kashimada

Love at Six Thousand Degrees

Maki Kashimada
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i reviewed maki kashimada’s “love at six thousand degrees” — a strange, surreal rewriting of “hiroshima, mon amour” https://t.co/sjkVz7xTs8

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

Erich Schwartzel
Jane HuJane Hu

Much of the intrigue in reading “Red Carpet” lies in the revelation of all the cinematic editing that would otherwise be undetectable.

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