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Kathleen Rooney 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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Kathleen Rooney is an author and poet. Poet. Fictionist. Nonfictionist. Feminist. Typewritings at https://t.co/nBTmxX79O8 Editor @rosemetalpress. Latest novel: FROM DUST TO STARDUST (Fall 2023)

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Book Cover for: Amygdalatropolis, Edia Connole

Amygdalatropolis

Edia Connole
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

@RussellJaffeETC @JohannesGoranss B.R. Yeager's AMYGDALATROPOLIS is similarly visceral and existential, really unforgettable and upsetting in a great way. Ditto NEGATIVE SPACE, which I liked even more, is similar. Recommend.

Paperback, 2017

$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Dele Weds Destiny, Tomi Obaro

Dele Weds Destiny

Tomi Obaro
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

I interviewed @TomiObaro about her debut novel DELE WEDS DESTINY from @AAKnopf for @ChicagoMag https://t.co/uyg2MnkH01

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Recitatif: A Story, Toni Morrison

Recitatif: A Story

Toni Morrison
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

@alyssaharad Deeper. It reminds me of Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" & how that story deliberately avoids stating either main characters' race. SPHINX was written in French, so the absence of not only pronouns but gendered verbs is impressive.

Hardcover, 2022

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Enormous Room: World War I Novel: The Green-Eyed Stores, E. E. Cummings

The Enormous Room: World War I Novel: The Green-Eyed Stores

E. E. Cummings
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

I got to review THE ENORMOUS ROOM, E. E. Cummings’ World War I novel reissued by @nyrbclassics, for @TheTLS: https://t.co/UJQtMZAMxp

Paperback, 2020

$7.40$3.70 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

@caromacon So delicious! Also, Herman Melville mentions the Esopus in “Bartleby the Scrivener”!

Paperback, 2016

$7.75$3.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Where Are the Snows: Poems, Kathleen Rooney

Where Are the Snows: Poems

Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

"If Kathleen Rooney were a scent, Where Are the Snows would be her essence bottled in a perfume." Colossal thanks to fellow poet & artist @rlslotnick for this fantastic conversation in @RainTaxiReview! https://t.co/pH3uBQCT4O

Paperback, 2022

$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner, Iris Murdoch

The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner

Iris Murdoch
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

@TheBookMaven The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch!

Paperback, 2001

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Life Ceremony: Stories, Sayaka Murata

Life Ceremony: Stories

Sayaka Murata
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

"Horror is a genre full of feminist potential." I got to review Sayaka Murata's short story collection LIFE CEREMONY from @groveatlantic for @LiberReview: https://t.co/BBgUsp20bT

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Acting Class, Nick Drnaso

Acting Class

Nick Drnaso
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

"The perspective is very obvious in a grid kind of place like Chicago." I got to interview graphic novelist Nick Drnaso about his new book ACTING CLASS from @DandQ for @ChicagoMag: https://t.co/k3mNIn2S9y

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville
Kathleen RooneyKathleen Rooney

@caromacon So delicious! Also, Herman Melville mentions the Esopus in “Bartleby the Scrivener”!

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