MAYDAY 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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A Million Quiet Revolutions
Robin Gow"A Million Quiet Revolutions is an offering of hope for a community that is so often invisible or portrayed as inevitably in danger of violence and loneliness." Kat Fallon reviews the latest book by our former poetry editor, @gow_robin_frank https://t.co/31xO7m9IVZ
Paperback, 2023
$13.99Member price:$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Half a Life
Darin StraussFINAL CALL! Don't hesitate to submit your nonfiction! There's $1,000 on the line and nothing to lose. The judge is Darin Strauss, author of "Half a Life" and "Queen of Tuesday." Thanks to all who submitted so far! https://t.co/seagQmWPKA https://t.co/lOYmNVKn55
Paperback, 2011
$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories
Gwen E. Kirby“Women can never be emancipated from the stupidity of men." For MAYDAY, Angelina Mazza reviews Gwen E. Kirby's remarkable, dark, biting feminist project, "Shit Cassandra Saw." @angejmazza https://t.co/SbXV9UvWje
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nothing But Light: Poems
Barbara Schwartz"Lyrical, imagistic, playful, profound, Maya Pindyck’s new collection of poems, Impossible Belonging, celebrates abundance, welcoming Dickinson’s nobody and Whitman’s multitudes." A review of Maya Pindyck's "Impossible Belonging" by Barbara Schwartz ✨ https://t.co/V9jU0t6XKz
Hardcover, 2022
$25.99Member price:$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Micro Chapbook RPG: Deluxe Core Rulebook Updated Edition
Noah PattersonAn interview with the winning Micro Chapbook author Ja’net Danielo on the inspiration and process behind This Body I Have Tried to Write. You can read the chapbook on our home page! You'll want to after this interview 🙇 https://t.co/eecS7ZYf2m
Paperback, 2020
$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alone Out Here
Riley Redgate"Learning to separate your own interests away from those feelings of, “I should be more like this, I should be more like that”—that’s going to be valuable forever. And not just in writing" Riley Redgate on writing, life, and her new novel "Alone Out Here" https://t.co/Behvj7sIq8
Hardcover, 2022
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rainbow Rainbow: Stories
Lydi Conklin"It’s interesting to see characters behave badly...because it’s more fun and more telling of their place in the world." Lydia Conklin speaks with Raki Kopernik about their new book "Rainbow Rainbow" https://t.co/OOHBYYpoZo
Paperback, 2023
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ghosts of Other Immigrants
Maija MäkinenJoin @newamerpress tomorrow for a reading of Maija Mäkinen’s debut story collection, The Ghosts of Other Immigrants! With special guests Hanna Pylväinen and Quince Marcum. Wednesday, Jun 07, 2023 @ 6PM Eastern Barbès 376 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 https://t.co/XDs5Oj5J2e
Paperback, 2023
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wandering Life: Followed by Another Era of Writing
Yves BonnefoyIn Yves Bonnefoy's "The Wandering Life," the ancient Greek painter Zeuxis' lost still life of grapes is inventively and painfully brought to life through poetry. Enjoy these prose poems full of art and literary references in Hoyt Rogers' translation. https://t.co/Y8q0WRzeHh
Hardcover, 2024
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Talking To Ghosts At Parties
Rick WhiteFollowing up on Rick White's short story from Monday, we've got an in-depth review of his collection "Talking to Ghosts at Parties" by Chase Erwin. @ricketywhite https://t.co/FPaWPiPIYL
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