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Jenny Wu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jenny Wu is a writer and independent curator. writer • @ArtinAmerica @Artforum @nytimesbooks @NYTmag @washingtonpost • rep: @kieleraymond

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Book Cover for: Biography of X, Catherine Lacey

Biography of X

Catherine Lacey
Jenny WuJenny Wu

For @LAReviewofBooks, my reading of @_catherinelacey’s Biography of X as a treatise on art criticism, disinformation, and love for difficult places: https://t.co/1BrWMo0Xzv

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Tell Me I'm an Artist, Chelsea Martin

Tell Me I'm an Artist

Chelsea Martin
Jenny WuJenny Wu

A hearty dose of bad art’s charm can be found in indie author Chelsea Martin’s new novel Tell Me I’m an Artist, a coming-of-age story about an art student in her late teens who is producing what is decidedly a bad remake of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, without having seen the film

Paperback, 2023

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Central Places, Delia Cai

Central Places

Delia Cai
Jenny WuJenny Wu

The question at the heart of Cai’s quarter-life-crisis novel is this: What do people like Audrey owe the small towns where they grew up, the towns that made them feel alone and misunderstood but that, for what it’s worth, took their ambitions seriously?

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Hugs and Cuddles, João Gilberto Noll

Hugs and Cuddles

João Gilberto Noll
Jenny WuJenny Wu

In... Hugs and Cuddles, love offers a man the tantalizing illusion of having escaped from freedom, of having surrendered all responsibility to someone better equipped to handle it... [but] for Noll, this self-abnegating love is also a catalyst for a new kind of political unity.

Paperback, 2022

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Visible: Text + Image, Marie Ndiaye

Visible: Text + Image

Marie Ndiaye
Jenny WuJenny Wu

For the Nov issue of @TheBrooklynRail, I reviewed VISIBLE: Text + Image, edited by @SarahCoolidge (@TwoLinesPress) 🍂 https://t.co/5lJSCjBPq8

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: To Write as If Already Dead, Kate Zambreno

To Write as If Already Dead

Kate Zambreno
Jenny WuJenny Wu

I reviewed Kate Zambreno's new book, To Write As If Already Dead (@ColumbiaUP), a "doubled history of two bodies amid historical plagues," for @LAReviewofBooks: https://t.co/vrqTd61Ss0

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, Jane Wong

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

Jane Wong
Jenny WuJenny Wu

For @washingtonpost, I reviewed Jane Wong’s new memoir, “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City” 💐 https://t.co/KNwRrfgVci

Hardcover, 2023

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Longcut, Emily Hall

The Longcut

Emily Hall
Jenny WuJenny Wu

Over @The_Millions, I wrote about art critic @emilyhallnyc's first novel, The Longcut (@Dalkey_Archive) 🥚🏗 https://t.co/wlso7zadgV

Paperback, 2022

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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O

Tammy Nguyen
Jenny WuJenny Wu

“O holds its polarities—deep and recent history, the sublime and the mundane, the built environment and the wilderness—on facing pages, in intimate proximity.” —from my review of Tammy Nguyen’s “O” (@uglyducklingprs), online now. https://t.co/ZNuuPVVVx0

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Book Cover for: Cyberfeminism Index, Mindy Seu

Cyberfeminism Index

Mindy Seu
Jenny WuJenny Wu

As a comprehensively intertextual, future-oriented archive, Seu’s book gains credibility precisely where it yields to the babel of contradictions thriving in the margins of cyberspace.

Paperback, 2023

$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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