Joshua Corey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Richard Hugo
Dillon’s essayism is a more sophisticated exploration of the distinction between “truth” and “music” in writing that was first revealed for me by Richard Hugo’s The Triggering Town, one hell of a long time ago.
Paperback, 2010
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Jacob's Room.: Novel
Virginia Woolf
“A novel… to be good should seem, before one writes it, something unwriteable.” —Virginia Woolf
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21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
Patrick O'Brian
It’s Monday, so what you really oughta be doing is immersing yourself in my novel-by-novel commentary on all 21 books in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series. I’m up to The Thirteen-Gun Salute, but you can start here: https://t.co/zaZt6tYN0O
Paperback, 2010
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Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
Brian Dillon
Cannot recommend highly enough Brian Dillon’s Essayism; On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction. It’s really “on” more than that: the construction of style, of self, and the meeting-place of the two—in any genre.
Paperback, 2018
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William Blake vs. the World
John Higgs
Highly recommend John Higgs’ William Blake vs. the World. The most clear, lucid, readable explication of Blake, his times, and his significance that I’ve come across .
Hardcover, 2022
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The Land of Ulro
Czeslaw Milosz
“Anyone prone to both melancholy and irascibility dwells on historical atrocities at the risk of compounding a private pain with a collective shame.” —Czeslaw Milosz, The Land of Ulro
Paperback, 2000
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The Far Side of the World
Patrick O'Brian
Probably the first in a two-part series on the tenth Aubrey-Maturin novel, The Far Side of the World, since in this post I talk more about the tension between writing and storytelling in O'Brian and other writers--including yours truly. #aubreymaturin #aubreyad #patrickobrian https://t.co/tQhUS2z4Iv
Paperback, 1992
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Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
I am finally getting started with Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast and oh my goodness what a writer.
Paperback, 2007
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The Truelove
Patrick O'Brian
@GhoshAmitav A present on my birthday: the 15th installment of my series on Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, this time on The Truelove, aka Clarissa Oakes, in which a young woman reveals the precariousness of Jack and Stephen's all-male floating world. https://t.co/Cl7jYxmhP3
Paperback, 2022
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Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Today might be a good day to buy my book about Hannah Arendt and the visceral conditions of totalitarianism! https://t.co/QsfsuhzWjj
Paperback, 2011
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