Julian Lucas 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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Afterlives
Abdulrazak GurnahJulian LucasHow did African soldiers fare in the wars between their colonizers? My thoughts on Abdulrazak Gurnah—laureate of orphans, exiles, wicked uncles, and troubled homecomings—and his latest novel, “Afterlives,” in this week’s @NewYorker https://t.co/nkHt5tdOVc
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint SmithJulian Lucas“How the Word is Passed” is a powerful reckoning with American slavery remembrance — place by place and tourist by tourist. My review of @ClintSmithIII’s latest for @nytimesbooks https://t.co/xV35CBg52i
Paperback, 2022
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
Ishmael ReedJulian LucasLong before the Yeehaw Agenda, Ishmael Reed wrote the Yeehaw Papyrus. My new introduction to “Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down”—a black cowboy novel about HooDoo, Ancient Egypt, and the origins of “Western” civilization—is out @nybooks https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2022/05/15/the-yeehaw-papyrus/
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Town of Babylon
Alejandro VarelaJulian LucasTonight! Come see me and @drovarela discuss his exciting debut “The Town of Babylon,” which captures the ghosts of suburban adolescence like nothing else I’ve read https://twitter.com/drovarela/status/1524434160563093504
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fugitivities
Jesse McCarthyJulian LucasMcCarthy’s spiralling, exquisitely cadenced prose is a shot of adrenaline, enlivening an ambitious twenty-first-century sentimental education that recalls Ben Lerner, Ralph Ellison, and Roberto Bolaño.
Hardcover, 2021
$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kibogo
Scholastique MukasongaJulian LucasGreat to see @Mukasonga’s “Kibogo” — a witty satirical novel about a renegade priest in WWII-era Rwanda — on the @nationalbook longlist. You can read an excerpt here https://t.co/yAHnccKjaA
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Ishmael ReedJulian LucasRT @WrittenByHanna: Ishmael Reed, satirist who created the play The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda on Hamilton https://t.co/GYPBqDCxuP
Paperback, 2020
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. ButlerJulian Lucas“Something old and nasty is reviving... the officials of Olivar permitted their town to be taken over, bought out, privatized” — Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-16/amazon-s-new-factory-towns-will-lift-the-working-class
Paperback, 2019
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture
Chika Okeke-AguluJulian LucasCouldn’t be more excited to launch @Chikaokekeagulu (and the late Okwui Enwezor’s) brilliant new monograph “El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture” with the author, the artist, and the great @jsf. Join us @newmuseum on Thursday at 6:30pm https://t.co/x35ycScw4b
Hardcover, 2022
$70.00$45.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Nova
Samuel R. DelanyJulian LucasSamuel Delany’s “Nova” has forged Benin bronzes decorating a 32nd-century mansion in the Pleiades. A new challenge for @artcrimeprof? https://t.co/IQc0B7iSEq
Paperback, 2002
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book