John Wilson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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New arrival from @MysteriousPress Josh Haven, The Siberia Job.

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Press release from @NewVesselPress: "Serves up heaping portions of yearning, passion, alienation, and regret, and establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature." —Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus.../1

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The best blurb I've read so far in this (very) new year is by Michael Hofmann, on the back of Rosemary Tonks' novel The Bloater (@NewDirections): "Writing like this—a bit of Jean Rhys, a bit of Knut Hamsun, a bit of Wyndham Lewis, a bit of Muriel Spark, overlaying the.../1

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Apropos my hope that a wise editor will ask @arrroberts to review the @PenguinClassics reissue of George Schuyler's Black Empire, perhaps Brooks Hefner's 2021 book from @UMinnPress, Black Pulp, could be added to the mix.

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New arrival from @SlantBooks Lorenzo Albacete, Cry of the Heart: On the Meaning of Suffering. Ever timely.

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Oh, my! This is so rich. (Typo near end of section 2: "Nothing this..." should read "Noting this...") https://t.co/zp6oOCIavt

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New arrival from @MysteriousPress Josh Haven, Fake Money, Blue Smoke.

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Thanks to @micahmattix for drawing our attention to @will_stephen's piece on Charles Portis, one of the best I've ever seen (and thanks to @Harpers for publishing it):.../1 https://t.co/13VVRS7FgZ

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New arrival from @eerdmansbooks Susan E. Hylen, Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like.

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Fellow lovers of the lost world: The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs, by Gregory S. Paul, is a must for your library. Thanks, @PrincetonUPress.