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Jerry Saltz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jerry Saltz is an art critic. Jerry Saltz: Senior Art Critic; New York Magazine. 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Author of NYT Best Seller “How To Be an Artist.” 2-time ASME award winner.

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Book Cover for: An Essay On Criticism: Written By Mr. Pope, Alexander Pope

An Essay On Criticism: Written By Mr. Pope

Alexander Pope
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

@emilynussbaum Two of my favorite books are Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism” and his translation of “The Iliad,”both written in heroic couplets. Pope teaches precession, wit, concision, and poise.

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Phone

Will Self
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

4/4. Be a good assistant to yourself. Prepare and gather, make notations and sketches in your head or phone. When you work,  all that mapping, architecture, research & preparation will be your past self giving a gift to the future self that you are now. That is the sacred.

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Divine Comedy: Paradise: Large Print

Dante
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

Question: What book(s) have you read that put such a grip on you that not long after finishing them you start reading them again. Replies should probably be embarrassing. 1 Proust 2 Milton’s Paradise Lost 3 Dante’s Divine Comedy. 4 DH Lawrence “Studies in Classic Am. Literature

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Book Cover for: Intentions, Oscar Wilde

Intentions

Oscar Wilde
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.” - Oscar Wilde

Paperback, 2016

$5.40$2.70 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Chief's Chief

Mark Meadows
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

Mark Meadows’ idiot book “In his book, “The Chief’s Chief” should have been titled “The Coward’s Coward.”

Hardcover, 2021

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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An Ideal Husband: Classics

Oscar Wilde
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

@SeenCapone Read the Classics And you will get as much. Iliad. Odessa. Aeneid. I won’t task you with Paradise Lost. Then “De Profindis” by Oscar Wilde. Where Wilde lays out a course for living and redemption. And then within five days after getting out of prison he went back to Boisie

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Intentions

Oscar Wilde
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.” - Oscar Wilde

Hardcover, 2023

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

The 90% all-white ethno-nationalist morally-damaged Republican Party of Florida is banning two of the greatest books ever written by an American. Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and “Beloved.” ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War.

Paperback, 2007

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: William Eggleston: The Outlands, William Eggleston

William Eggleston: The Outlands

William Eggleston
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

William Eggleston "The Outlands” is an eyewitness account of a country that somehow survived its own death and is already in the antechamber of its own afterlife. See fate hang in the air. https://t.co/3q9gPLJWfW

Hardcover, 2021

$450.00$425.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Huckleberry Finn

Twain Mark
Jerry SaltzJerry Saltz

I deeply love Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” However, if they were alive today Tom Sawyer would have been a Proud Boy breaking into the Capital on January 6. Huck is closer to Brad Ratffensperger not allowing the steal but a rabid Trump supporter & extreme loyalist Republican

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