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 Olds
@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 Doty
@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 Powers
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 Whitehead
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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Women in Love
Dh Lawrence
@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 McCarthy
#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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Watership Down: The Graphic Novel
Richard Adams
I’ve been able to bang through a lot of great reading these past couple of weeks—Gayl Jones Corregidora, Ida Fink A Scrap of Time, Richard Adams Watership Down, Dana Stevens Buster Keaton bio, & Geraldine Brooks People of the Book! 🙂📚👊🏽 https://t.co/DHTxmkBjg3
Paperback, 2023
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In Waves
Aj Dungo
@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 Erdrich
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 Varela
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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