Massachusetts Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Massachusetts Review on X
A 200-page quarterly of fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art by emerging and established authors since 1959. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.
Calling for a Blanket Dance
Oscar HokeahMassachusetts ReviewSouth Hadley's Odyssey Bookshop will be hosting a virtual conversation with #author Oscar Hokeah about his new book, Calling for a Blanket Dance, this Thursday. Register here to attend! https://t.co/o3TsoWcJg4
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Color Line
Igiaba ScegoMassachusetts ReviewMR Contributor Igiaba Scego is reading from her new book, The Color Line, tonight at @mtholyoke, sponsored by @odysseybks: https://t.co/fH35Gocu9L https://t.co/EYWJ4PCTCp
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Home Fire
Kamila ShamsieMassachusetts ReviewIn celebration of Kamila Shamsie's @kamilashamsie "Home Fire" being recently awarded the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018, check out @clarachambara 's essay "Sound and Fury: Kamila Shamsie's 'Home Fire,'" published in our Summer 2018 issue (Vol 59, Issue 2) https://t.co/vjfAndB240 https://t.co/mPTRsGM38S
Paperback, 2018
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Going to Meet the Man: Stories
James BaldwinMassachusetts Review"They also demonstrate that people struggle to take accountability for the stories they tell each other." #Climate writer Sarah E. Vaughn on the many narratives that interweave #climatology and sociology, plus James Baldwin's NYC, for her #10Questions: https://t.co/8iZbgDD2b7 https://t.co/Xr51CfMPm0
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Previously Owned
Nathan McClainMassachusetts Review#HappyPubDay to MR Poetry Editor @nathanhmcclain and his newest collection, "Previously Owned." Order you copy here: https://t.co/weX7x0c3xM https://t.co/53EeuvEyYe
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling
Fred MotenMassachusetts Review"These poems are celebrations and performances of Black vernacular culture’s transformative power." Michael Thurston looks at Fred Moten's perennial fashion presence falling (@WavePoetry) for #MassReviews: https://t.co/4DDvsQPCf5 https://t.co/ifjfSu8pCh
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rapture & the Big Bam: Poems (Snowbound Chapbook Award)
Matt DonovanMassachusetts Review#poet Matt Donovan discusses poems from his forthcoming collection, "The Dug-Up Gun Museum," from BOA editions in his 10Questions interview. https://t.co/tVHeusdXfU https://t.co/FMyvhMcWQz
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sins of the Bees
Annie LampmanMassachusetts Review"And that two-page exercise from all those years ago turned into my just-published novel, Sins of the Bees." #Fiction writer @AnnieLampman talks about creating characters and her story in MR that sparked her in-progress second novel: https://t.co/GsQSVVRW7O https://t.co/7TXDnxPtWs
Hardcover, 2020
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Always Different: Poems of Memory
Gyula JeneiMassachusetts ReviewAnd an Honorable Mention was given to Diana Senechal's #translation of Gyula Jenei's "Scissors" from our Vol. 62, Issue 2. and appears in the collection Always Different, out now from @DeepVellum: https://t.co/xm7i8PNRS5 https://t.co/OpYna2rKDx
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Whereas: Poems
Layli Long SoldierMassachusetts Review"I love the idea of the poem as a physical object to send between two people, as something that moves in the world" #poet Lisa Low on writing poems on postcards, plus the ars poetica and the work of Layli Long Soldier, for her #10Questions: https://t.co/IFcgOKQDe6 https://t.co/CgBTstZ4fz
Paperback, 2017
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book