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Maggie Lange Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Maggie Lange is a journalist and writer. did you call me from a seance?

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Book Cover for: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, Rebecca May Johnson

Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

Rebecca May Johnson
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

The book regards recipes as sites of dynamic…engagement across generations and notes that most bragging about not following a recipe is…a defensive response to anxiety about originality. “Small Fires”…is brave enough to hurt feelings, and delicious enough for no one to care.

Hardcover, 2023

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Guest Lecture, Martin Riker

The Guest Lecture

Martin Riker
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

A novel of ideas and feelings, of feelings about ideas and ideas about feelings ... It bursts with philosophy, jokes, factoids, tense academic social dynamics and fragments of formative memory.

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: You Have a New Memory, Aiden Arata

You Have a New Memory

Aiden Arata
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

includes everything from ruminations on the precarity of Los Angeles to essays on the strange realm of intellectual-influencers..: “...lipstick the cool mauve of a corpse...the public relations girl, loaded on terpenes...wept into my mushroom risotto.”

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick, Jenny Jackson

Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick

Jenny Jackson
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

Pineapple Street (the book) has preppy clutter & inherited mansions & a fantastic brat character in the manner of Amy from Little Women ! @JennyeJackson talked about it all on a romp through Pineapple Street (the place) ! for @Dwell ! https://t.co/lKVYtdOtPI

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: First Time, Long Time, Amy Silverberg

First Time, Long Time

Amy Silverberg
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

It’s bold to create a fictional persona with a strong resemblance to the provocateur and radio host Howard Stern....even bolder... [the] love-triangle...[involving] his twenty-something daughter. Amy Silverberg has the wit, insight, and gumption to pull it off.

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Dance and the Fire, Daniel Saldaña París

The Dance and the Fire

Daniel Saldaña París
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

the intense, tangled connection between art and the natural world. During raging fires in Cuernavaca, Mexico, three friends engage in a mystic, ecstatic dance... References include: Mary Wigman, Blockula witches, Aleister Crowley, Olof Bromelius, Paracelsus.

Hardcover, 2025

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, Tourmaline

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

Tourmaline
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

A biography of Marsha P. Johnson—trans activist and Stonewall figure—featured by the NYT

Hardcover, 2025

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, Jeremy Atherton Lin

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

did you lose a bell hooks book at a queer party in 2015? i wrote this review-ish of Jeremy Atherton Lin's "Gay Bar" for you !! https://t.co/ncyF0ur65X

Paperback, 2022

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Among Friends, Hal Ebbott

Among Friends

Hal Ebbott
Maggie LangeMaggie Lange

Quiet but explosive, Among Friends begins as a man hits a stranger with his car...And there’s an excellent description of a smile [that]... “held like an embrace. Dazzling teeth, lips like folds of rich fabric, a smile in which one wants to believe.”

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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