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Jonathan Blitzer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Staff writer @newyorker. Emerson Fellow, @NewAmerica. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, forthcoming from @penguinpress in January 2024.

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Book Cover for: Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years, Heidi Julavits

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years

Heidi Julavits
Jonathan BlitzerJonathan Blitzer

"It was an oddly tender thing, this boy the size & shape of a man tempering his bluster lest his use of the word 'bitch' offend me, a stranger who belonged to the category to which it refers, when he meant only to demean his friend..." @Alex_Lily https://t.co/clR8NdCIls

Hardcover, 2023

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar

Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar
Jonathan BlitzerJonathan Blitzer

In this week's @NewYorker, @Alex_Lily has a brilliant profile of the novelist & playwright @ayadakhtar, whose new book, Homeland Elegies, is about America and American-ness at a major existential crossroads. You're not going to want to miss this one: https://t.co/E3y8Faizqh

Paperback, 2021

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut, Nicholas Schmidle

Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Nicholas Schmidle
Jonathan BlitzerJonathan Blitzer

*Very* excited abt @nickschmidle's new book TEST GODS, an inside account of Virgin Galactic's quest to build a space tourism company. (Here's the original @newyorker story: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/20/virgin-galactics-rocket-man). And here's just a glimpse of the book, in @GQMagazine: https://www.gq.com/story/test-gods-virgin-galactic-excerpt

Paperback, 2022

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book