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More classics spotted on @patrickgaspard’s shelf: BEYOND A BOUNDARY; C.L.R. James (1963/2013 edn) THE GOLDEN BOUGH; Sir James George Frazer (1890/1963 pbk edn) COLLECTED POEMS; Dylan Thomas (1953) COMPLETE POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN (1995 edn Hopper cover) https://t.co/1WQ2rvW4SF https://t.co/AYRP1AjspW

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@ratemyskyperoom @brhodes Spotted: NATASHA’S DANCE: A Cultural History of Russia; Orlando Figes (2003) COLD WARRIORS: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War; Duncan White (2019) RED CARPET: Hollywood, China, & the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy; Erich Schwartzel (2002) THESE TRUTHS; Jill Lepore https://t.co/pExoiBPmiS

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@ratemyskyperoom @brhodes Spotted: Vietnam research shelf FIRE IN THE LAKE; Frances Fitzgerald (1972) EVERYTHING WE HAD: An Oral History by 33 American Soldiers; Al Santoli (1981) PAYBACK: Five Marines After Vietnam; Joe Klein (1984) BLOODS: An Oral History by Black Veterans; Wallace Terry (1985) https://t.co/xhb7GMwQTM

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I stumbled on the 1935 photo in Kevin Birmingham’s THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (2014). So far I found little on Alvin Winston’s CHERRY. https://t.co/CrQIp36ct6

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@ratemyskyperoom Spotted: ONE ART: Letters; Elizabeth Bishop (1994) EUROPE CENTRAL; William T. Vollmann (2005) THE COLLECTED STORIES; William Trevor (1993) https://t.co/bq3PHmum9E

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Fresh out of college in 1976 and doing informational career interviews in NYC, I visited Stephen King’s editor Bill Thompson at Doubleday. During our conversation, King phoned Thompson, whom I remember, read to him a just-published Variety review of DePalma’s Carrie. https://t.co/JJsFV0YRdq

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Notorious publishing history note: F. Scott Fitzgerald biting the hand that feeds him by defining smug entitled Tom Buchanan as someone who endorses a book about “white replacement theory,” presumably published by the same house as THE GREAT GATSBY. 1/2 https://t.co/2mE1VsF5QH

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Spotted in the center: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT; Fyodor Dostoevsky (this Norton Critical edition 1975) A PALE VIEW OF HILLS; Kazuo Ishiguro (1982) SHE’S COME UNDONE; Wally Lamb (1992) THE GREAT NORTHWEST; Oscar Osburn Winther (1947) 3/4 https://t.co/VQZzKsEl8o

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HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American; Hampton Sides (2011) CARRY ME HOME: Birmingham, Alabama —The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution; Diane McWhorter (2001) MY SOUL IS RESTED; Howell Raines (1977) 4/7 https://t.co/2qnukAdVkj

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@ratemyskyperoom @patrickgaspard Spotted: THE AGE OF NAPOLEON; J. Christopher Herold (1963/1991 American Heritage Library paperback) BELOVED; Toni Morrison (1987) WALTER RUTHER: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit; Nelson Lichtenstein (1997) https://t.co/5Hsxu8lDQG