MacDowell 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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Spirituality and Abolition
Ashon CrawleyMacDowellSPIRITUALITY AND ABOLITION, edited by @ashoncrawley (MF 21) and Roberto Sirvent with the Abolition Collective (& featuring a cover by Ashon), comes out today with @CommonNotions: https://t.co/9CNlW14SGq
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cost of Living: Essays
Emily MaloneyMacDowellEmily Maloney's "broad authority and the quality of the prose — astute, compassionate and lethally funny — are what make these essays remarkable." – Sarah Manguso (MF 05, 06, 07) on @emilyfmaloney's (MF 18) COST OF LIVING: https://t.co/77IPeJLjTU
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harlem Shuffle
Colson WhiteheadMacDowell.@bookcritics's 2021 awards nominations are out and they include: GIRLHOOD, by @melissafebos (MF 4x 10-21), THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS, by @BlkLibraryGirl (MF 99), HARLEM SHUFFLE, by @colsonwhitehead (99, 11), & FRANK: SONNETS, by @dlseuss (15)! https://lithub.com/here-are-this-years-finalists-for-the-national-book-critics-circle-awards/
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bluest Eye
Toni MorrisonMacDowell2016 #MacDowellMedal recipient Toni Morrison’s most consistently challenged books in schools and libraries are BELOVED and THE BLUEST EYE. To honor her anti-censorship work, @NYPL is providing unlimited, instant digital access to these works thru Oct. 31. https://t.co/SSWcfRIAbs
Paperback, 2007
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Want What We Want: Stories
Alix OhlinMacDowellCongratulations to @AlixOhlin (MF 04), winner if the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction for the story collection WE WANT WHAT WE WANT! https://twitter.com/LambdaLiterary/status/1535755173917822976
Hardcover, 2021
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hundred Waters
Lauren AcamporaMacDowell"Can’t you just write books and hope the right readers find and love them?" – @LaurenAcampora (MF 09) We are always hoping so. Lauren Acampora's new novel, THE HUNDRED WATERS, comes out today with @groveatlantic! https://t.co/PeXzZ1ewbP
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology
Jenni QuilterMacDowellAuthor @jenniquilter (MF 16) was working on HATCHING: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology, during her MacDowell residency, and the new memoir that explores the inequality surrounding IVF and fertility is out today on @riverheadbooks! https://t.co/uGU0FEvb2W #MadeAtMacDowell
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Very Cold People
Sarah MangusoMacDowellVERY COLD PEOPLE, poet and writer Sarah Manguso's (MF 05, 06, 07) debut novel, is out today with @HogarthBooks. Find it wherever books are sold or loaned. https://t.co/q4RkFiCzpX #pubday
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Song Called Home
Sara ZarrMacDowellHappy #pubday to @sarazarrbooks (MF 14), whose new novel, A SONG CALLED HOME (@BalzerandBray), is now available at your favorite places to find books! https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-song-called-home-sara-zarr?variant=39356520726562
Paperback, 2024
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
Randall KenanMacDowell"It’s full of all those things he loved… essays about family, music, film, swine in all their incarnations, and his lifelong interrogation into what it means to be Black in America." @DHWallace (MF 16) on Randall Kenan's (MF 90) BLACK FOLK COULD FLY: https://t.co/lyTk6bkBhC
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book