Jay Innis Murray Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by: Mark Twain (Novel)
Mark TwainJay Innis MurraySecond book finished this year is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain. A sort of American Don Quixote about the type of American society that would be the subtext for Twain’s great novel to follow. https://t.co/zTO6PUts0e
Paperback, 2016
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Gormenghast: Volume 2
Mervyn PeakeJay Innis MurrayThe figures in this illustration by Ralph Steadman in my copy of The Poor Mouth look like some of Mervyn Peake’s own for Gormenghast. https://t.co/kGBFVpnuKB
Paperback, 2007
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White
Bret Easton EllisJay Innis MurrayIt’s hard to resist thinking about authorial intent with Bret Easton Ellis. I mean he’s not shy and his non-fiction White (2019) is right there and recent.
Paperback, 2020
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyJay Innis Murray“Best cheeseburger I ever ate was at the lunchcounter at Comer’s Pool Hall on Gay Street in Knoxville Tennessee. You couldn’t get the grease off your fingers with gasoline.” (page 80) - The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy https://t.co/xdq3n585hd
Paperback, 2023
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Birds, Beasts and Flowers
D. H. LawrenceJay Innis Murray23rd book is Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) by DH Lawrence. A truly insane book of poems about fruits, plants, animals and dead people. If he came across it, he wrote a poem about it. https://t.co/UVyMujmxiP
Hardcover, 2022
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert FrostJay Innis Murray14th book finished is New Hampshire (1923) by Robert Frost. 44 poems by Frost at his apex nearing age 50. Contains the famous Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. I’m thinking most about the poem right after it in the published sequence. Here: https://t.co/ihqsEl6W48
Hardcover, 2001
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark TwainJay Innis MurraySecond book finished this year is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain. A sort of American Don Quixote about the type of American society that would be the subtext for Twain’s great novel to follow. https://t.co/zTO6PUts0e
Paperback, 2014
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Anne CarsonJay Innis Murray15th book of the year is The Beauty of the Husband (2001) by Anne Carson. Sitting here trying to think of things that are sharper than scalpels. Whatever that might be is what she used to autopsy her past marriage. https://t.co/fVmdBfgV4t
Paperback, 2002
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Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life
Flann O'BrienJay Innis MurrayThird book finished this year is The Poor Mouth (1941) by Flann O’Brien. It’s so funny, and I do not think its like will ever be [anywhere] again. https://t.co/drMRd3Fgrf
Paperback, 1996
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Adonais
ShelleyJay Innis MurrayThe ashes of Shelley’s heart. Which Trelawney had scooped from the flames when the corpse was burned on the beach at Viareggio in 1822, and which were passed on to Mary — and were found in her copy of Adonais after her death in 1851. (Markson, The Last Novel)
Paperback, 2009
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