Ken Layne 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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Dubliners
James Joyce
The Dubliners always looked fantastic, and exactly like a 1960s band of balladeers named for a James Joyce book. https://t.co/cXpAYfYZke https://t.co/kjBUipqG99
Paperback, 2017
$18.67$9.34 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
Mel Brooks
1. All About Love by bell hooks 2. All About Me! by Mel Brooks https://t.co/Jo4nClnTmb
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
Erik Davis
The 10:30 p.m. repeat on the radio tonight is @erik_davis in 2019 talking about his book High Weirdness. Summer before the pandemic, interesting to hear. https://t.co/vMRI6l7n0I https://t.co/CBocdVOcM2
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All about Love: New Visions
Bell Hooks
1. All About Love by bell hooks 2. All About Me! by Mel Brooks https://t.co/Jo4nClnTmb
Paperback, 2018
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Call Me Burroughs: A Life
Barry Miles
From Barry Miles’ incredible 2014 biography “Call Me Burroughs,” which I’m reading for the first time. https://t.co/PX4NxrfZ7E
Paperback, 2015
$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dubliners
James Joyce
The Dubliners always looked fantastic, and exactly like a 1960s band of balladeers named for a James Joyce book. https://t.co/cXpAYfYZke https://t.co/kjBUipqG99
Paperback, 1993
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
This translation of Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle" is really clear & perfectly describes our real/unreal 21st Century global culture. https://t.co/1Zpy2SLrYs https://t.co/eGoDX5D6kA
Paperback, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac
Reading Jack Kerouac’s “Desolation Angels” for the first time in decades. I don’t remember these lines about the Cascades abominable snowman or the Air Force UFO reporting system for fire lookouts. https://t.co/BSjMcUtqWN
Paperback, 1995
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike Davis
Was glad to see all the love Mike Davis received over these past couple of months. Tell people while they're still alive! @MattWelch gave me "City of Quartz" in Budapest, 30 years ago. Completely changed how I wrote about places. The way he makes LOS ANGELES the protagonist...
Paperback, 2018
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Desolation Peak: Collected Writings
Jack Kerouac
Tonight at 10PM on https://t.co/kx74GN6QUU in Joshua Tree & across the Mojave High Desert. The book we're talking about, in the second half, is the newly published (by @rarebirdlit) "Desolation Peak" from Jack Kerouac's fire-lookout 1957 journals: https://t.co/7vLZe33g4X https://t.co/hy85ZmDOL4
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book