Laura Spence-Ash Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Laura Spence-Ash on XBEYOND THAT, THE SEA, out from @CeladonBooks, March 21, 2023 /// Fiction: @onestorymag, @NERWeb /// Critical essays/Reviews: @pshares

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories
Hilma WolitzerA dream of a panel on short stories last night at the @nysoclib, sponsored by @AuthorsGuild, with @CultOmnivore, @cummins_megan, @adalva, @mwspence, and Hilma Wolitzer, moderated by Diana Altman. Not to take anything away from the others, but Hilma stole the show! https://t.co/cS9RmCw1vV
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories
Yiyun Li"The most propulsively entertaining of Li’s novels, “The Book of Goose” is an existential fable that illuminates the tangle of motives behind our writing of stories...." What a wonderful review. Can't wait to read this book by Yiyun Li. https://t.co/Rk1GX7F0g8
Paperback, 2006
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Witness: Stories
Jamel Brinkley@vanjchan Jamel Brinkley (WITNESS out 8/1/23!)
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00Member price:$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Girl's Guide to Leaving
Laura VillarealHappiest of pub days to @earthandstars! Her wonderful collection, GIRL’S GUIDE TO LEAVING, is out today from @UWiscPress!! 🎉🎉💕 https://t.co/znB8cfOSyr
Paperback, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy: Book 3
Tove Ditlevsen"He also makes a fuss about having a housekeeper in the mornings, since I'm home anyway, doing nothing. But I can't and won't keep house, so he has no choice." —Tove Ditlevsen, Dependency I love these moments of iron will poking through, showing us who she is. #APSTogether
Paperback, 2021
$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bratwurst Haven: Stories
Rachel KingI reviewed BRATWURST HAVEN by @rachelkingpdx for @Colorado_Review. Don’t miss this beautiful linked collection! https://t.co/h1eUuCZndr
Paperback, 2022
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth StroutI had the wonderful opportunity to write about LUCY BY THE SEA, the new novel by @LizStrout out today! https://t.co/IhIoVdSZzT
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Awayland: Stories
Ramona Ausubel@AnuKandikuppa I don't have it in front of me, but I think AWAYLAND by @ramona_ausubel does this
Paperback, 2019
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li"Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mold and tilled with manure." The opening to THE BOOK OF GOOSE seems to respond to this moment. How I love when books are in conversation with one another. Thank you, Yiyun. What a pleasure. #APStogether https://t.co/Y9SjuvtiOE
Paperback, 2023
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Heather Blazing
Colm ToibinFor @pshares, I wrote about the structure of Colm Tóibín’s second novel, THE HEATHER BLAZING, which moves back-and-forth from past to present to develop and complicate character. https://t.co/efzaZ6Zxky
Paperback, 2012
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book