Laura Marsh 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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Literary Editor at @NewRepublic / Co-host of The Politics of Everything podcast
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie GarrettLaura MarshEarly in the pandemic I read David Quammen's Spillover and Laurie Garrett's the Coming Plague - both of which cover some of the early triumphs of the CDC. It seems almost unrecognizable today.
Paperback, 2020
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Godfather
Mario PuzoLaura MarshGiven that I once dated someone who owned only one book - which was Mario Puzo’s The Godfather - this question does not apply to me https://t.co/QsO61pPXYc
Hardcover, 2002
$34.70$17.35 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Telluria
Vladimir SorokinLaura Marsh"Telluria reads as a chronicle of projects forestalled, exits that become entrances, and advances that lead back to their point of departure." @aarontimms on Vladimir Sorokin: https://t.co/8NjYWkGU76
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reproduction
Louisa HallLaura MarshIs disjointedness is the only mode that can reflect the highly politicized, minimally supported experience of being pregnant in America? Wrote about Louisa Hall's “Reproduction”: https://t.co/9Ja8eJw8Vy
Paperback, 2024
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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary McCarthyLaura MarshSome of the most haunting writing on flu is by Mary McCarthy, who writes about losing her parents when she was six, in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. “We ceased to speak of it, and thus, without tears or tantrums, we knew they were dead.” https://t.co/WZBbDtJ4r4
Paperback, 2011
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Passion Simple
Annie ErnauxLaura MarshInspired by a recent @PhilippaSnow piece to read Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux. Which of her books to read next?
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas MalmLaura MarshRT @kunktation: In case you want to complement the NYer’s interview with Andreas Malm with my review of *How to Blow Up a Pipeline* https:/…
Paperback, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Piers Paul ReadLaura MarshI don't know, if I watch Yellowjackets is it really going to be better than the audiobook of Piers Paul Read's Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Hardcover, 2002
$26.55$13.27 + Free shipping50% off your first book
True Grit
Charles PortisLaura Marsh"While True Grit was an almost perfect combination of imaginative storytelling and commercial success, it set the stage for one of the most remarkable disappearances-in-plain sight of contemporary literature." https://t.co/UizbojUSLc
Paperback, 2010
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyLaura Marsh"The Passenger is the great achievement of McCarthy’s old age... It’s the kind of novel you’d write to remind yourself that each of us dies—and perhaps lives—alone." @magsrdoherty on Cormac McCarthy: https://t.co/aVGQPbDRuA
Paperback, 2023
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