Janice Obuchowski Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Ghost Story
Peter Straub
@Urrealism Thank you! I'm going to order Peter Straub's Ghost Story and start reading him this week.
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Skin and Its Girl
Sarah Cypher
Look at this radiant cover! Sarah Cypher's THE SKIN AND ITS GIRL, will be out in April 2023, from Ballantine! https://t.co/zxfLiTEKDv
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Love
Anton Chekhov
Chekhov, Anton: Talent, but not genius. Love him dearly, but cannot rationalize that feeling. https://t.co/9JdYzhNqHC
Paperback, 2014
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
Peter Orner
"Maybe it's just a true love story, and like all such stories it will always mean less to the person listening (more or less listening) than it does to the teller. How could it not?" --from "Ineffectual Tribute to Len" by Peter Orner
Paperback, 2020
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Runaway
Alice Munro
@keith_leonard_ Alice Munro has both Runaway and Dear Life out in the 2000s (cheating a smidge to call her contemporary, but she's so amazing); Lauren Groff's Florida; Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker; Kirstin Valdez Quade's Night at the Fiesta; George Saunder's Tenth of December.
Paperback, 2005
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
@MoMarcoPolo @shortstories Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat; We the Animals by Justin Torres; The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
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Florida
Lauren Groff
@keith_leonard_ Alice Munro has both Runaway and Dear Life out in the 2000s (cheating a smidge to call her contemporary, but she's so amazing); Lauren Groff's Florida; Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker; Kirstin Valdez Quade's Night at the Fiesta; George Saunder's Tenth of December.
Paperback, 2019
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner
William Maxwell
@DeVonciFig So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. I think a lot about Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow and Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, too.
Paperback, 1996
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
@MoMarcoPolo @shortstories Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat; We the Animals by Justin Torres; The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro; The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien; Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Paperback, 1992
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Conjunctions: 42, Cinema Lingua
Robert Coover
Recently, @_conjunctions had an online reading, and Karen Russell and Robert Coover read. I thought it was so exciting--wonderful that spaces that champion literature exist. Now, especially, I think three cheers for Conjunctions getting to continue its stellar work! https://t.co/6ZN1722A3A
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