joanna pocock Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Author of SURRENDER | @FitzcarraldoEds & @Erratanaturae | words in @darkmtn @latimestravel @thenation @NewStatesman @Orion_Magazine @spectator @TheTLS etc...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean: An Essay Collection
Joan Didionjoanna pocockOnly just found out about this! 👉 BBC Radio 4 - Let Me Tell You What I Mean: A New Collection of Essays by Joan Didion - Available now https://t.co/QB04FfUssD
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ninemile Wolves
Rick Bassjoanna pocock@ericajberry Rick Bass’s booklength essay ‘The Ninemile Wolves’ is brilliant!
Paperback, 2009
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Aldo Leopoldjoanna pocockRevisiting Aldo Leopold's 'Thinking like a Mountain' chapter from 'A Sand County Almanac' (1949) for a class I'm teaching tonight. Strange how, with the legalised hunting of wolves going on right now, this could have been written today. #wolves #aldoleopold #environmentalwriting https://t.co/XYkjCaKMpz
Paperback, 2020
$19.98Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Waiting for Nothing
Tom Kromerjoanna pocockJust finished ‘Waiting for Nothing’, an absolute gut punch of a novel by Tom Kromer about life ‘on the bum’ during the Great Depression. This is the University of Georgia edition, but I see @thecommonbreath reissued it in 2021. An absolute gem of a book. #TomKromer https://t.co/l6zhQ8zWPv
Paperback, 2020
$14.95Member price:$13.45 + Free shipping10% off
The Elements of Typographic Style: Version 4.0
Robert Bringhurstjoanna pocockMy evening has just been massively improved by discovering that Robert Bringhurst's seminal work 'The Elements of Typographic Style' is available for free online! #bookdesign #typography #RobertBringhurst https://t.co/lsBmCJRj4y
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The Lottery
Shirley Jacksonjoanna pocockI wanted something engrossing to take my mind off the boring practicalities of moving house and landed on Simenon’s ‘The Krull House’ (translated by Howard Curtis). One of Simenon’s ‘hard novels’, I found it weirdly upsetting with a hades of Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery’. (1/2) https://t.co/iP5knrtNHk
Hardcover, 2008
$34.25Member price:$32.54 + Free shipping5% off
Is Mother Dead
Vigdis Hjorthjoanna pocockAbsolutely electric evening at @LRB tonight for Vigdis Hjorth’s recent book ‘Is Mother Dead’ published by @VersoBooks (translated by Charlotte Barslund). Wonderful questions & conversation with Shahidha Bari. #VigdisHjorth #workintranslation #LRB #fiction https://t.co/myOggjiZU1
Paperback, 2023
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnitjoanna pocock@BoMandeville Thought of you and your horizons today while rereading Solnit’s chapter on blueness (and its unattainability) in ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’.
Paperback, 2006
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momadayjoanna pocock@NatalieGHart How about ‘Bless Me, Ultima’ by Rudolfo Anaya and ‘House Made of Dawn’ by N Scott Momaday. Both set in NM and both brilliant.
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Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc Godardjoanna pocockThe husband is obsessed with this clip from Google StreetView of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville (set to the music from 'Le Mépris'). Incredibly moving and so very Godardian. https://t.co/5S8DD0nBtu #JLG #Godard #cinema #LeMepris #FinDeCinema
Hardcover, 2000
$150.00Member price:$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)