John J. Lennon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

John J. Lennon

Joe Coscarelli's piece on Lil Baby for @nytimes excerpts his dope new book Rap Capital. When I publish a big piece, I often bump Lil Baby's Global - "I told the truth in every story that I told them" - on my tablet in my cell. @joecoscarelli @lilbaby4PF https://t.co/7pZJmMVg5U

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I don't write fiction but reading it helps me write better, especially when the book is written by my mentor: @vauhinivara's The Immortal King Rao is one of Times' 100 notable books of 2022. Congrats! https://t.co/kbVAlBV0AZ

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I got a cohort of three guys I mentor on the cellblock. We all requested Pen America's new book, The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison. I received my copy today. It was flagged and sent to Media Review to scrutinize the content..

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There's this book, Bad Sex, by Nona Willis Aronowitz (@nona), that's been getting buzz. After bad -- awkward, unsatisfying, formulaic, clumsy, detached -- sex she dissolves her marriage of 8 years then goes on a journey.

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Another summer read recommendation is The Latecomer -- “@JeanHanffKoreli’s sparkling novel has all the hallmarks of a beach read” the @nytimesbooks says. I suppose the cell will have to do.

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In prison I can't read online, so I subscribe to a slew of the slicks: New Yorker, New York, Harper's, @esquire, Vanity Fair. And the lit mags: @parisreview, @hedgehogreview, and I'm about to subscribe to @thedrift_mag

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Salute and RIP to Albert Woodfox -- he passed away, but he left us with his life's struggle in Solitary, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer, and his words on the page will bring him back to life and inspire us for many, many years to come.

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A few months ago, one of my mentees on the tier ordered Jack Hart's "Storycraft: The complete guide to writing narrative nonfiction." I stopped by his cell and I saw the thing looked brand new. I told him he was playing games - that book should be all marked up with coffee stains

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@jonahweiner 's profile "Michael Mann's Damaged Men" for @NYTmag is a great read, especially if you loved Mann's movie Heat. Turns out, Mann wrote a sequel, Heat 2, in the form of a novel, during the pandemic. https://t.co/miYRWaqsGh

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I'm sucked up in @rebeccamakkai's I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, a novel that critiques true crime, which maybe seems like an oxymoron — but Makkai's the truth. Fiction writers can just do things that nonfiction writers can't.