Kate Bolick 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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Author of SPINSTER; journalist; teach writing @Yale.

Inseparable
Simone De Beauvoir
I am v v excited to teach a Zoom seminar at @mcnallyjackson this September on Simone de Beauvoir's never-before-published (until last year) autobiographical novel, INSEPARABLE. Please join me! https://t.co/QXZBr5pjs2 https://t.co/FjH4pjf56Y
Paperback, 2022
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
Tracy Kidder
Opinion: GOOD PROSE, by Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd, is far superior to Vivian Gornick’s THE SITUATION AND THE STORY as a teaching text for writing classes.
Paperback, 2013
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black
Birthday book recs for a 14yo girl who counts HEARTLESS and RENEGADES by Marissa Meyer and THE CRUEL PRINCE by Holly Black as her favorite books? Asking as her aunt.
Paperback, 2018
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
Ada Calhoun
@APockros Have you read his daughter Ada Calhoun's memoir about him? ALSO A POET. It's such a wonderful example of life-writing that I invited her to class this semester, and she was fantastic.
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
Rebecca Mead
@APockros ONE PERFECT DAY, by Rebecca Mead
Paperback, 2008
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Vivian Gornick
Opinion: GOOD PROSE, by Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd, is far superior to Vivian Gornick’s THE SITUATION AND THE STORY as a teaching text for writing classes.
Paperback, 2002
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
@Samantharhill I read Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus when I flew to Australia
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book