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Katie Freeman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Publishing & literary arts consultant. Iowan New Yorker. She/her.

30 books
Book Cover for: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Katherine May
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

Highly recommend pairing WINTERING with THE ELECTRICITY OF EVERY LIVING THING @_katherine_may_ @melvillehouse (and signing up for Katherine's excellent newsletter at her website!) https://t.co/3W3xkQyAC6

Hardcover, 2020

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mrs. S, K. Patrick

Mrs. S

K. Patrick
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

"In this way, questions about sex and love and gender are layered on top of one another. Our protagonist starts out fearful of these queries but eventually revels in the unknowing..." @Kristen_Arnett on @K__Patrick's MRS S @EuropaEditions - a novel I loved https://t.co/bRYKjGeGmv

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner), Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

Charles Yu
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

YES @charles_yu who is awesome in all ways! And everyone should read Interior Chinatown @PantheonBooks https://t.co/cgqfIaKD28

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin

Winter in Sokcho

Elisa Shua Dusapin
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

Congratulations Elisa Shua Dusapin WINTER IN SOKCHO translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins & published by the exceptional @open_letter! #NBAwards https://t.co/Rkz9M7Q1ol

Paperback, 2021

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Country of Origin, Dalia Azim

Country of Origin

Dalia Azim
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

Fervently refreshing @TheBookerPrizes hoping to see @mieko_kawakami HEAVEN trans. by Sam Bett & David Boyd shortlisted, while working on ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT (May 3) & Dalia Azim's gorgeous debut COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (April 12), feeling v. grateful for superb fiction & indies

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Is One Way to Dance: Essays, Sejal Shah

This Is One Way to Dance: Essays

Sejal Shah
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

"The essays in this slim volume are engaging and thought-provoking. Each ends with a date that tells the reader when it was first written, placing it in context in Shah's life."@marthaannetoll @nprbooks on @fictionalsejal THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE @UGAPress https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/868326004/this-is-one-way-to-dance-explores-a-life-straddling-congruent-realities

Paperback, 2020

$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency, Tove Ditlevsen

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

Tove Ditlevsen
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

Top 5 Nonfiction @nytimesbooks: RED COMET by Heather Clark (@Plathbiography) HOW THE WORD IS PASSED @ClintSmithIII ON JUNETEETH @agordonreed INVISIBLE CHILD @andreafelliott THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY by Tove Ditlevsen, trans. by Tiina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue

How Beautiful We Were

Imbolo Mbue
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

Top 5 Fiction @nytimesbooks: HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE by Imbolo Mbue INTIMACIES @katiekitamura THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS @BlkLibraryGirl WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD by Benjamín Labatut, trans. by Adrian Nathan West NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS @TriciaLockwood

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison, Pen America

The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison

Pen America
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

Starting now! The launch of THE SENTENCES THAT CREATE US: Crafting a Writer’s Life In Prison @haymarketbooks @PENamerica with editor @caits_meissner in conversation w/ @dwaynebetts & @NK_Adjei https://t.co/QnOICYBtIf

Paperback, 2022

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Andrea Elliott

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Andrea Elliott
Katie FreemanKatie Freeman

Top 5 Nonfiction @nytimesbooks: RED COMET by Heather Clark (@Plathbiography) HOW THE WORD IS PASSED @ClintSmithIII ON JUNETEETH @agordonreed INVISIBLE CHILD @andreafelliott THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY by Tove Ditlevsen, trans. by Tiina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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