Lee Konstantinou Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Lee Konstantinou is a nonfiction author and essayist. I teach contemporary literature at @UMDEnglish. I wrote "Pop Apocalypse," "Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction," and "The Last Samurai Reread."
Star Rover
Jack LondonLee KonstantinouJack London's "The Star Rover" sounds like a very strange novel. I wonder about its relation to Stapledon's fiction.
Paperback, 1999
$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Perhaps the Stars
Ada PalmerLee KonstantinouFinally for-real finished "Perhaps the Stars." Gonna start collecting secondary sources on the book and Terra Ignota as a whole. Recommendations welcome.
Paperback, 2022
$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Star Rover
Jack LondonLee KonstantinouJack London's "The Star Rover" sounds like a very strange novel. I wonder about its relation to Stapledon's fiction.
Paperback, 2021
$11.99Member price:$10.79 + Free shipping10% off
The Big Book of Science Fiction: Ten Classic Science Fiction Short Stories
Susan HartLee KonstantinouNext time I teach my sf class maybe I should just have the students buy The Big Book of Science Fiction and do 100% short stories.
Paperback, 2016
$10.99Member price:$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Man
Mary ShelleyLee KonstantinouAs part of a piece I'm writing on "post-American science fiction," I'm trying to find the earliest examples of SF that depict -- and discuss -- the decline and/or fall of the United States. Earliest example I can find is Mary Shelley's The Last Man. Other good examples?
Paperback, 2024
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@ [Squiggle] [Star]!, Art Spiegelman](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780375715389.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1732568517)
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@ [Squiggle] [Star]!
Art SpiegelmanLee KonstantinouYou can now look inside Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman, which is coming out in March (!!!). https://t.co/M3Fk4WKRQz
Paperback, 2022
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Martin Eden.: novel
Jack LondonLee KonstantinouJack London's "The Star Rover" sounds like a very strange novel. I wonder about its relation to Stapledon's fiction.
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The Last Samurai
Helen DeWittLee Konstantinou...DeWitt’s biographical revelation nonetheless drives her novel. The Last Samurai is structured around the pursuit of aesthetic education, the possibility of educating oneself and honing a critical sensibility.
Paperback, 2016
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Vegetarian
Han KangLee KonstantinouRereading The Vegetarian has reminded me of how great a writer Han Kang is. I'm excited to read Greek Lessons and wish I could, somehow, learn Korean in a hurry and read the originals.
Paperback, 2016
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Jacket: Star-Rover
Jack LondonLee KonstantinouJack London's "The Star Rover" sounds like a very strange novel. I wonder about its relation to Stapledon's fiction.
Paperback, 2022
$22.95Member price:$20.66 + Free shipping10% off