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Julian Zabalbeascoa Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Work: @asfmag, @believermag, @commonmag, @coppernickel, @ElectricLit, @TheFlReview, @GburgReview, @glimmertrain, @onestorymag, @pshares. Repped: @mnardullo.

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Book Cover for: Show Them a Good Time, Nicole Flattery

Show Them a Good Time

Nicole Flattery
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Challenging myself to write paragraphs that wouldn’t bore a reader who just finished @nicoleflattery's SHOW THEM A GOOD TIME. Each are dynamic & surprising, possess a wild pulse. Excited for her first novel NOTHING SPECIAL to reach our shores this summer. https://t.co/ejxpqGRTic

Paperback, 2023

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Laura Van Den Berg

What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

Laura Van Den Berg
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And though it's been a hot minute since I read @Lvandenberg's 2008 @onestorymag issue "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us," I can still recall that sensation of being out in the ocean with the narrator and held under water with her. https://t.co/8yOdNuzYpH

Paperback, 2009

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories, Yiyun Li

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

Yiyun Li
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Such great short stories in the newest issue of @Salamander_Mag from @CoreyECampbell, @CharlotteLGross, @JustinaElias, and Nicole Simonsen, the latter two having won the fiction prize which was judged by Yiyun Li. https://t.co/3x7h5ATkjv

Paperback, 2006

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Boomtown Girl, Shuba Sunder

Boomtown Girl

Shuba Sunder
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Late getting this one up, but Shubha Sunder's launching at @booksmithtweets of her debut collection of stories BOOMTOWN GIRL, published by @BlackLawrence, was not only a great evening but also the most packed I've ever seen my local indie for a reading. https://t.co/zvfmfeA8v6

Paperback, 2023

$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bewilderness, Karen Tucker

Bewilderness

Karen Tucker
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Been a fan of @_karentucker_’s work since first reading her story “Humping the Bush” in an issue of @Salamander_Mag, so I’m looking forward to her debut novel Bewilderness. Add to it that it’s published by @CatapultStory, who have been slaying it for a long while now. https://t.co/lddL2gT5p2

Hardcover, 2021

$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Singer Distance, Ethan Chatagnier

Singer Distance

Ethan Chatagnier
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California's Central Valley represent! @EthanChatagnier's Singer Distance is a true beauty. Published by @Tin_House, the novel is part sci-fi, part mystery, all a touching meditation on our desire for connection while we spin around a sun that's determined to one day burn out. https://t.co/AYUa1xf9eo

Paperback, 2023

$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Suttree, Cormac McCarthy

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy
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Hell yeah! From Jonathan Miles over at @gardenandgun: Cormac McCarthy's new novel is "the humid, fevered, magniloquent, Bible-cadenced, comma-starved, word-drunk prose of what some fans consider McCarthy’s masterwork, Suttree." https://t.co/jIvt0SvP49

Paperback, 1992

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan
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Take it from me and the Booker Prize folks: Richard Flanagan’s THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH is pure brilliance. https://t.co/ZR3d7KBnRS

Paperback, 2015

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, Timothy Snyder

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder
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The Road to Unfreedom by @TimothyDSnyder, published in 2018, is the best book I've read on Ukraine-Russia. If you've already read it or have yet to, his new essay in @ForeignAffairs is an excellent primer or follow-up to it. https://t.co/8nNQeXTsui

Paperback, 2019

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War, Phil Klay

Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War

Phil Klay
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On a day when we must again #MarchForOurLives, here is a passage from @PhilKlay’s brilliant “A History of Violence,” which is a thorough and troubling accounting of America’s relationship with guns. You can find it in his new collection of essays UNCERTAIN GROUND. https://t.co/084AhKt3m9

Paperback, Large Print, 2022

$36.00Member price:$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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