Mary Karr, Poet/Memoirist/Professor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Mary Karr, Poet/Memoirist/Professor on X
Liars’ Club, Cherry, Viper Rum, Lit, Sinners Welcome, Art of Memoir, Tropic of Squalor

A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid
@alexanderchee @andrewjskerritt @kevin_powell beautiful: Jamaica Kincaid’s A SMALL PLACE! <3
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The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair #ReadGrahamGreeneForAGoodTime
Paperback, 2004
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Horsepower: Poems
Joy Priest
Gotta follow young Joy Priest aka @Dalai_Mama_ to get love poems this fine. Git it https://t.co/EmYO3pm7Fr
Paperback, 2020
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone
James Martin
Hey all, join me and bestseller Father James Martin, SJ to discuss his LEARNING TO PRAY, tomorrow at 730. If you’re new at prayer, Martin is a very talented spiritual director (he directs my crooked little soul, for one). + famous for his humor. Join us! https://t.co/o3s1PDzfA5 https://t.co/EjSfcDawiH
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
Terrance Hayes
@andrewjskerritt @_JoyCastro @alexanderchee @ProfessorEA @AlexiaArthurs terrance hayes’s to float the space in between about etheridge knight & hayes’s new book watch your language is baller. anything by audre lorde & toni morrison. how we do it ed by @jerichobrown & darlene taylor. baldwin paris review interview
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Mosab Abu Toha
SO psyched (and not at all surprised) for @MosabAbuToha’s winning the #PalestinianBookAward in Creative Writing for his first collection, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear. A fabulous read now garnering world praise. Brave new voice https://t.co/4XW3dHErc3
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All's Well
Mona Awad
Join me to celebrate @MonaAwadAuthor’s new novel #AllsWell Aug 3, or ifyou’re tied up catch her on NPR or with Dana Spiotta or @BillClegg or on her world tour! One of my favorite book’s this year! https://t.co/nXYX9DdNKU
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
Judith Thurman
Looking for a book by a baller stylist & great storyteller who keeps yours truly company walking Central Park most days? Judith Thurman’s LEFT-HANDED WOMAN, a coven of pieces she did for @NewYorker. https://t.co/AVDsg0yD6W
Hardcover, 2022
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
House of Cotton
Monica Brashears
Rave review for Moni Brashears aka @magnoliasnmud. Told you so & good ohn you! https://t.co/O1rRjvdLgI
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Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Ian McEwan once described promoting a book as being an employee of your former self. It’s both an enormous honor & a 24-7 spotlit hellscape for writer introverts. Lucky we are for @NK_Adjei’s wisdom on #presence during his own slog with the blazing 1st novel Chain Gang All-Stars. https://t.co/FUDyjAJOC8
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book