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Joshua Corey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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My new novel, HOW LONG IS NOW, is now available from @SpuytenDuyvil: https://t.co/wZ3unfVpt9

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Book Cover for: The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing, Richard Hugo

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

Richard Hugo
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

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

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Jacob's Room.: Novel, Virginia Woolf

Jacob's Room.: Novel

Virginia Woolf
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

“A novel… to be good should seem, before one writes it, something unwriteable.” —Virginia Woolf

Out of stock

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Book Cover for: 21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, Patrick O'Brian

21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

Patrick O'Brian
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

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

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction, Brian Dillon

Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

Brian Dillon
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

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

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: William Blake vs. the World, John Higgs

William Blake vs. the World

John Higgs
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

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

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Land of Ulro, Czeslaw Milosz

The Land of Ulro

Czeslaw Milosz
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

“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

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Far Side of the World, Patrick O'Brian

The Far Side of the World

Patrick O'Brian
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

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

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

I am finally getting started with Mervyn Peake and Gormenghast and oh my goodness what a writer.

Paperback, 2007

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Truelove, Patrick O'Brian

The Truelove

Patrick O'Brian
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

@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

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt
Joshua CoreyJoshua Corey

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

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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