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Jessica Ferri Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jessica Ferri is an author and book critic. Book critic @latimes and @washingtonpost & owner @wombhousebooks. Author of Silent Cities New York and Silent Cities San Francisco.

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Book Cover for: The Kingdom of Sand, Andrew Holleran

The Kingdom of Sand

Andrew Holleran
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

Holleran is a gorgeous writer, who writes of a walk down a neighborhood cul-de-sac with as much atmospheric grandeur as a sweeping war epic. So much is unspoken, vague and eerie, but this is a world we recognize that is both jarring and wonderful.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner, Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner

Joan Didion
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

"a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No one was watching me." - Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Paperback, 2007

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Intermezzo, Sally Rooney

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

There’s not much one needs to say to explain the excitement over a new book by Rooney, the Irish wunderkind whose first novel is the unbelievably perfect 'Conversations With Friends.' Unlike her previous books, which center on romance and its discontents, 'Intermezzo' is about a family relationship: Two brothers, lawyer Peter and chess master Ivan, grapple with their father’s death.

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Loser

Thomas Bernhard
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

“But Glenn didn’t die from this long disease, I thought. He was killed by an impasse he had played himself into for almost forty years, I thought.” —Thomas Bernhard, The Loser

Paperback, 2006

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma, Claire Dederer

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

Claire Dederer’s new book, “Monsters,” blew my mind. 👹 I spoke with her @latimesbooks https://t.co/Ipchbe5YaD

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Ripe

Sarah Rose Etter
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

I profiled “friendly tornado” @sarahroseetter, whose novel “Ripe” publishes tomorrow, @latimesbooks. https://t.co/UGUtBGhZap

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Book Cover for: Very Cold People, Sarah Manguso

Very Cold People

Sarah Manguso
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

Sarah Manguso’s Very Cold People is out today: “The abuse wasn’t the story. The abuse was the setting. It’s elemental.” https://t.co/U9qlSn2bCX

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Biography of X, Catherine Lacey

Biography of X

Catherine Lacey
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

In its boldness of premise and execution, Biography of X goes above and beyond, under the river and through the woods. It flaunts world-building skills that the writers of HBO's "Game of Thrones" wish they'd had... Lacey is one of the most fearless novelists writing today.

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Taking Care, Joy Williams

Taking Care

Joy Williams
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

Me realizing Joy Williams published a novel (State of Grace, 1973) before a collection of stories (Taking Care, 1982) https://t.co/rLT3xybiDv

Paperback, 1985

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Woodcutters

Thomas Bernhard
Jessica FerriJessica Ferri

"Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them." --Voltaire (the epigraph to Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters)

Paperback, 2010

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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