Maggie Lange Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
Rebecca May Johnson
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
The Guest Lecture
Martin Riker
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
You Have a New Memory
Aiden Arata
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
Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick
Jenny Jackson
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
First Time, Long Time
Amy Silverberg
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
The Dance and the Fire
Daniel Saldaña París
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
Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
Tourmaline
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
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Jeremy Atherton Lin
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
Among Friends
Hal Ebbott
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