Matt Weiland 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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VP & Senior Editor at W.W. Norton, co-editor of STATE BY STATE and THE THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, attacking midfielder, card-carrying Midwesterner
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
Michelle NijhuisMatt WeilandComing in July from @wwnorton... “Science journalism at its best.” —@Nate_Blakeslee, author of AMERICAN WOLF “At once heartbreaking and hopeful.” —@ben_a_goldfarb, author of EAGER “Insightful and absorbing.” —@nijhuism, author of BELOVED BEASTS ...review copies available now. https://t.co/ZIYNUIeqWx
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bad Island
Stanley DonwoodMatt WeilandBecause 2020 isn’t bad enough... Coming in October: BAD ISLAND by @stanleydonwood “A picture book of the damned”- @KirkusReviews (starred) “A hypnotic, trenchant allegory”- @PublishersWkly “An extraordinary, unsettling document”-@RobGMacfarlane https://t.co/608DZk4C89
Hardcover, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Dipo FaloyinMatt WeilandOut next month and another early rave just in: "@DipoFaloyin [is] a smart, often scathingly funny writer…. AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY...brims with the sort of outrage that speaks of hope, of change.”—@bookpage (starred review) https://t.co/nOt0iazjZM
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Natural History: Stories
Andrea BarrettMatt WeilandHuge congrats to Andrea Barrett on being named to the longlist for NATURAL HISTORY, and heartfelt hoorahs to the organizers and jury for such a wonderful new books prize. https://t.co/zw1ph4aJ64
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Comics: A History
Jeremy DauberMatt Weiland"An engaging, analytic history encompassing the entire medium. That sounds like a job for Superman, but Jeremy Dauber has gotten there first…" What a thrilling review of AMERICAN COMICS: A HISTORY in @WSJBooks. Out this month from @wwnorton. https://t.co/CZh0hG1gh0
Paperback, 2022
$22.50$11.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
Matthew GreenMatt WeilandOut now: SHADOWLANDS by @drmatthewgreen, shortlisted for the @wainwrightprize for nature writing: "Beguiling."—WSJ “Startling.”—FT “Fascinating.”—TLS "Haunting."—Iain Sinclair “A moving exploration of impermanence, memory, and the hypnotic allure of the past.”—LJ (starred) https://t.co/2tuXnTUHTe
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The City We Make Together: City Council Meeting's Primer for Participation
Mallory CatlettMatt WeilandTHE CITY WE MAKE TOGETHER, the excellent book that @thinaar and Mallory Catlett have written about their extraordinary theater work "City Council Meeting," is out now from @UIowaPress: https://t.co/9xyi2zZb2V https://t.co/h5sx8ZI7eb
Paperback, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Essays One
Lydia DavisMatt WeilandThis sounds great, and with an all-star cast of contributors. Only wish the book were called ESSAYS ON ESSAYS: And Other Essays https://twitter.com/manymanyplies/status/1451086830217093121
Paperback, 2020
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sidecountry: Tales of Death and Life from the Back Roads of Sports
John BranchMatt WeilandGot a giftee who likes reading about ordinary people doing extraordinary things? SIDECOUNTRY by Pulitzer Prize-winner @JohnBranchNYT “Consistently smart, startling observations... Something for every reader, whether or not they’d consider themselves 'sports fans'.”—PW, starred https://t.co/Ke6H1QuQXu
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beguiling
Tina FolsomMatt WeilandOut now: SHADOWLANDS by @drmatthewgreen, shortlisted for the @wainwrightprize for nature writing: "Beguiling."—WSJ “Startling.”—FT “Fascinating.”—TLS "Haunting."—Iain Sinclair “A moving exploration of impermanence, memory, and the hypnotic allure of the past.”—LJ (starred) https://t.co/2tuXnTUHTe
Paperback, 2019
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book