Matthew Sharpe Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Author of JAMESTOWN, THE SLEEPING FATHER, other novels. Independent editor and writing coach. Former prof at Wesleyan, Columbia, Bard, Pratt, elsewhere.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington IrvingMatthew Sharpe@Obuchowski13 Old school: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Paperback, Mass Market, 1991
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving WashingtonMatthew Sharpe@Obuchowski13 Old school: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Paperback, 2016
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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Anne CarsonMatthew Sharpe@amy_stuber_ Beckett's Molloy. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Two by Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red, The Beauty of the Husband. Ishmael Reed's Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down....
Paperback, 2002
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Middlemarch
George EliotMatthew Sharpe@HMeloWriter Yes, I think it's more interesting when the omniscient 3p narrator has a distinctive personality. I think I learned this from George Eliot in Middlemarch, whose narrator I think of as maternal—sometimes doting-maternal and sometimes snarky-judgmental-maternal.
Paperback, 2015
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Watt
Samuel BeckettMatthew Sharpe@DeVonciFig Not a poem but this passage in Samuel Beckett's novel WATT: 1/ "The only other object of note in Erskine’s room was a picture, hanging on a wall, from a nail. A circle, obviously described by a compass, and broken at its lowest point, occupied the middle foreground,
Paperback, 2009
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Return to the City of White Donkeys
James TateMatthew SharpeI'm glad James Tate was alive and wrote all those poems. That's it, that's the tweet. Plus this poem by him courtesy of Sarah Osment. https://t.co/yK5f4E8XeN
Paperback, 2014
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography
Langston HughesMatthew Sharpe@Aaron__Burch "Salvation" by Langston Hughes, actually a chapter of his memoir The Big Sea, but does so many things I want students to know a story can do (like with time & space; there's a literal threshold which, when the protagonist crosses it, he can't ever go back), all in two pages.
Paperback, 1993
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Frank: Sonnets
Diane SeussMatthew Sharpe@Lupita_Reads 'frank: sonnets' by Diane Seuss—a memoir in a sonnet cycle
Paperback, 2021
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American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy
Brynn TannehillMatthew Sharpe@joshfrai Brynn Tannehill, who wrote the book American Fascism, used the term Sturmabteilung to describe those guys who got arrested in Idaho as they prepared to disrupt (a euphemism) that Pride event in Idaho, and their ilk. Sounds about right.
Paperback, 2021
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Memoir of the Hawk: Poems
James TateMatthew Sharpe@toddedillard James Tate, Memoir of the Hawk, Return to the City of the White Donkeys
Paperback, 2002
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