Juan Carlos Reyes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Writer/ Author/ Father/ Husband/ Immigrant/ Prof. @seattleu / Exec. Ed. @bigfictionmag / author of THREE ALARM FIRE (2024, @hintonpublishing)

Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
Matthew Salesses
THE SENSE OF WONDER excerpt at Literary Hub this upcoming Matthew Salesses @salesses gem is exciting for the writer who gave us CRAFT in the REAL WORLD, what else can we be but thankful that we get to walk alongside his craft journey https://t.co/1tIKhb8Tid
Paperback, 2021
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Instructions for Dancing
Nicola Yoon
library browsing, as the kids scour for their own books, is really just the joy of finding epigraphs that echo from the shelves to the rafters from Nicola Yoon’s @NicolaYoon INSTRUCTIONS FOR DANCING https://t.co/QTApYr7IJV
Paperback, 2022
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetics of Work
Noémi Lefebvre
“Sincerity is an American fiction, said my father one day he’d been drinking.” POETICS OF WORK, by Noémi Lefebvre, translated by Sophie Lewis
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual pre-requisites of architectural appreciation.” —Alain de Botton, THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS
Paperback, 2008
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Crime in the Land of 7,000 Islands
Zephaniah Sole
My compatriot & fellow-in-arms of 25 years, Zephaniah Sole, is killing it with his first book, A CRIME IN THE LAND OF 7,000 ISLANDS Feeling like a proud brother right now Check out his BBC Radio Interview - “FBI Agent-turned-writer Zephaniah Sole” https://t.co/jws93jMBdL
Hardcover, 2023
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Above Us the Milky Way
Fowzia Karimi
“The grandfather tree knows that light too travels a circuitous route and that: what turns will unwind; what enters will out; and what travels will return home again.” from Fowzia Karimi’s ABOVE US THE MILKY WAY, an illuminated alphabet https://t.co/LFGZm6QFUy
Hardcover, 2020
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Variations of Labor
Alex Gallo-Brown
like some good chin music, @AlextheGB Alex Gallo-Brown’s poetry collection VARIATIONS OF LABOR leaves you floored for a moment cuz it offers a language to this feeling of being used, of being just a calculation in somebody else’s shortsightedness https://t.co/nANoGk0SUP
Paperback, 2019
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sense of Wonder
Matthew Salesses
THE SENSE OF WONDER excerpt at Literary Hub this upcoming Matthew Salesses @salesses gem is exciting for the writer who gave us CRAFT in the REAL WORLD, what else can we be but thankful that we get to walk alongside his craft journey https://t.co/1tIKhb8Tid
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All about Love: New Visions
Bell Hooks
everything in bell hooks’s ALL ABOUT LOVE, even two decades later, reads like the hard-earned manifesto we all need
Paperback, 2018
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Multiple Choice
Alejandro Zambra
@seacityoflit Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
Paperback, 2016
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book