Joel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Teach @GreenhillSchool @GOAlearning. Same profile ID at the other place👖🌃. Cofounded, cohost #THEBOOKCHAT🙂📚
Stag's Leap
Sharon OldsJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓@VintageAnchor Predictable answer: A Confederacy of Dunces (I know, I know) & Films? Any Vonnegut novel the Coens are willing to direct, or Kenzaburō Ōe’s A Personal Matter Series? Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus, or Sharon Olds’ Stag’s Leap, or Ellison’s Invisible Man 📚🎥🤔
Paperback, 2012
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Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
Mark DotyJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓@teachnext_tmb Don’t regret buying Dickinson Borges Bishop collected, for ex, but rarely need *every* poem a poet ever published. A (usually chronological) poet-curated selection works so well — Mark Doty Fire To Fire was the first bk that made me feel that
Paperback, 2009
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The Overstory
Richard PowersJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓I've posted about Ezra Klein's interviews before & about Richard Powers's genius before. Now you can have them both at once Powers 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory... [sigh] as Klein says, if you haven’t read it, you should. It’ll change you🌳🎧 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-richard-powers.html?smid=tw-share
Paperback, 2019
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Harlem Shuffle
Colson WhiteheadJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓Getting my reading pace & energy back to where I like it I just finished reading Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle and Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion Both minireviews at http://bit.ly/JoelRGarza 🙂📚👊🏼
Paperback, 2022
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
John McPheeJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓John McPhee, man, holy sh1t “The approach to structure in factual writing is like returning from a grocery store with materials you intend to cook for dinner. You set them out on the kitchen counter, and what’s there is what you deal with, and all you deal with” from Draft No. 4
Paperback, 2018
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Women in Love
Dh LawrenceJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓@doodlinmunkyboy I did! Jimmy Breslin The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, DH Lawrence Women in Love, Sebald The Emigrants, Solmaz Sharif Look, Crossman’s Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography & the Beastie Boys Book 🤣
Paperback, 2022
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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthyJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓#THEBOOKCHAT Blood Meridian moments (page 17) 🧵 I take it ye lost your way, said the hermit. No, I went right to it [said the kid] 😱🤔🤣 Join me, @Lyricalswordz, and some brave readers to discuss Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece Sunday 9/25 8pEST https://t.co/bw3kDi0lgS
Paperback, 1992
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In Waves
Aj DungoJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓@thereadingzone In addition to Much Ado & Counting Descent, choice reading had a huge impact this past year, including: graphic novels AJ Dungo In Waves & Derrick Backderf Kent State, poetry by Marilyn Chin & Christian Wiman & Breakbeat anthologies, essays by Michael Chabon & Ocean Vuong 🙂📚
Paperback, 2019
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The Night Watchman
Louise ErdrichJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓Update: Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman brings love stories, historical fiction, family drama, trauma narrative, feminist empowerment, spirit presence, political grassroots empowerment, & humor & horse romance & boxing & landscape & varieties of manhood & memory &&&&😱🤯😭
Paperback, 2021
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The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaJoel /hō•ÉL/ Garza is cofounder of #THEBOOKCHAT 📓This break, I’m reading two books, one fiction, one nonfiction — each of which is a kind of personal archaeology 🤔📚 https://t.co/UoXerARQER https://t.co/xfbh8OZS55 https://t.co/yCjGOUBMnK
Paperback, 2024
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