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Lucas Mann Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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On the feelings beat. Books: CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, LORD FEAR, CLASS A Professor @umassd IG @lucaswmann @NEAarts fellow. @USAforART fellow.

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Book Cover for: What Are We Doing Here?: Essays, Marilynne Robinson

What Are We Doing Here?: Essays

Marilynne Robinson
Lucas MannLucas Mann

for fans of: parenthood, experimental essays, Marilynne Robinson, Julien Baker, The National, icelandic conceptual artist ragnar kjartansson, hearing weird noises in sound machines, Mary Gaitskill, awkward teaching moments, ummm sure im forgetting some

Paperback, 2019

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bunny, Mona Awad

Bunny

Mona Awad
Lucas MannLucas Mann

wait is this the plot of Mona Awad's Bunny? My kid was like three months when I read it so if I just stole the premise entirely plz forgive me Mona i was basically in a fugue state

Paperback, 2020

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Family Stone, Michael R. Lane

The Family Stone

Michael R. Lane
Lucas MannLucas Mann

Sequel to The Family Stone where SJP clumsily tries to impress Diane Keaton with a story about donating a kidney and Rachel McAdams steals that for her writing called THE KIDNEY STONE wow i've done it!

Paperback, 2023

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, John Berger

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

John Berger
Lucas MannLucas Mann

It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough. — John Berger, And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

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Book Cover for: Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Elizabeth Rush
Lucas MannLucas Mann

Beatrix Potter, Maurice Sendak, Bruno Bettelheim, Finding Dory, Elizabeth Rush’s Rising, John Audobon, Bambi, Marc Bekoff, the New Bedford whaling museum, Zoobooks, Stellaluna, John Berger, Elena Passarello, Banshees of Inisherin, LYLE LYLE CROCODILE, Hal Herzog, Werner Herzog

Paperback, 2019

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Oreo, Fran Ross

Oreo

Fran Ross
Lucas MannLucas Mann

@SarahViren Oh and the AMAZING novel Oreo, by Fran Ross!

Paperback, 2015

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

Joan Didion
Lucas MannLucas Mann

Feels like the there will be bad essays about Joan Didion’s death take is…yet another predictable way to not talk about her genius on the day she died and would we do that for literally any other American master?

Paperback, 2008

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Velveteen Rabbit: The Classic Children's Book, Margery Williams

The Velveteen Rabbit: The Classic Children's Book

Margery Williams
Lucas MannLucas Mann

i am once again tweeting that the velveteen rabbit goes so fucking hard like damn margery williams you didn't have to do it like that

Hardcover, 1958

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World, Sasha Fletcher

Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

Sasha Fletcher
Lucas MannLucas Mann

@JenLouiseWilson Just finished @sasha_fletcher BE HERE TO LOVE ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD — wonderful and debt filled!

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Book Cover for: Bluets, Maggie Nelson

Bluets

Maggie Nelson
Lucas MannLucas Mann

@jaycaspiankang Slouching toward Bethlehem for sure…also (for a different kind of nonfiction) Maggie Nelson’s Bluets influenced a lot…McPhee still Carrie’s a ton of influence too, just in sheer amount of being taught

Paperback, 2009

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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