Mairead Small Staid 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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Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
Michael Paterniti
@RussBrakefield Love that Barrett Swanson one. Also John Jeremiah Sullivan's Upon This Rock. And the Michael Paterniti piece that turned into Driving Mr. Albert. And Joni Tevis's Brain Sweat & Blueprints! And and and.
Paperback, 2005
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Nox
Anne Carson
It's Anne Carson's birthday. "The Glass Essay" lives in my mind and EROS THE BITTERSWEET runs under all my work and NOX stunned me at every turn, but my first Carson was PLAINWATER, and I love it wholly still. "I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime." https://t.co/av2WlwP4lp
Hardcover, 2010
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
Anne Carson
It's Anne Carson's birthday. "The Glass Essay" lives in my mind and EROS THE BITTERSWEET runs under all my work and NOX stunned me at every turn, but my first Carson was PLAINWATER, and I love it wholly still. "I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime." https://t.co/av2WlwP4lp
Paperback, 2023
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Gallery of Clouds
Rachel Eisendrath
@anthgarrett Oh, yes. Rachel Eisendrath's Gallery of Clouds is a wonderful recent one. Also, though the work engaged with is mathematical instead of literary, I think of Karen Olsson's The Weil Conjectures in this vein.
Hardcover, 2021
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
Peter Orner
@Peter_Orner Thank you so much! And I'm looking forward to Still No Word From You—your publicist kindly sent a digital galley, but I know I'll want to turn real pages on this one. Soon!
Hardcover, 2022
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Views of Jeopardy: The Yale Series of Younger Poets, V58
Jack Gilbert
A few years ago, I wrote an essay for @PoetryFound / @poetrymagazine about the too-little-known poet Laura Ulewicz, whose work I found via her relationship with Jack Gilbert. (VIEWS OF JEOPARDY is dedicated "To Laura Ulewicz / a kind of dragon.") https://t.co/VP17NA603Y 1/2
Paperback, 2011
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The Afterlife: Poems
Levis Larry
It's Larry Levis's birthday—the last day of a short month, autumn in the air—as good a time as any to revisit one of the most beautiful poems ever written: https://t.co/1Itsy2k8AQ https://t.co/rjZ6Mi6hlz
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That Old Country Music: Stories
Kevin Barry
I'm ashamed to admit that I had, until now, slept on Kevin Barry. Don't let this happen to you! Every story in That Old Country Music is a stunner. https://t.co/9CergTbCVY
Paperback, 2022
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The Baudelaire Fractal
Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson's THE BAUDELAIRE FRACTAL was one of the strangest, most invigorating reads of my last few years, and I'm thrilled to see her work explored so beautifully in the latest @LRB: https://t.co/EluDopHzOj https://t.co/GHYrw3oic3
Paperback, 2020
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Marguerite Duras: Writing
Marguerite Duras
I used to think good writing had to be about bad things. I wrote about my conversion to the literature of happiness for @The_Millions, with assists from @GarthGreenwell, @tejucole, and Marguerite Duras: https://t.co/LmymXCUjEh @DeepVellum
Paperback, 2011
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