Merve Emre 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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Merve Emre is a contributing writer for the New Yorker and a nonfiction author. Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism. Director of Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at @wesleyan_u. Critic, @newyorker
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyMerve EmreRT @chrisbrooke: Finally caught up with a copy of Sally Rooney's new book, Beautiful World, Where Are You and was delighted to see that *ev…
Paperback, 2022
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia WoolfMerve EmreRT @ARoseCasey: I can’t quite explain how glad I to be reading Merve Emre’s enchanting annotated version of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,…
Paperback, 1990
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First Love
Gwendoline RileyMerve EmreI'll be speaking with the formidable Gwendoline Riley next Tuesday, September 13th, at 7:30 PM EST -- 12:30 AM, the witching hour in the U.K. -- about her haunting novels FIRST LOVE and MY PHANTOMS. Hosted by @NYRB_Imprints and @CommunityBkstr. https://t.co/hdmOwRWCgw
Paperback, 2022
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Five Dialogues
PlatoMerve EmreFound in the back of a used copy of Plato’s “Five Dialogues”: A book idea. https://t.co/Tl6m2ZIAIC
Paperback, 2013
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How to Be Both
Ali SmithMerve Emre@briansholis @NewYorker Some of Ali Smith's earlier work (How to Be Both) perhaps?
Paperback, 2015
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V.
Thomas PynchonMerve EmreI thought this went without saying, but “my personal LOVE canon,” which is why — for the fifth time, gentlemen — Thomas Pynchon’s V isn’t on here. (Among other reasons.)
Paperback, 2005
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Either/Or
Elif BatumanMerve EmreIt’s so nice to see people have been listening to this conversation! My other favourite @LRBbookshop podcast this year: Talking to Elif Batuman about EITHER / OR: From the Bookshop: Elif Batuman and Merve Emre The LRB Podcast https://t.co/UMHlLZTKCu https://t.co/CcysAtwARN
Paperback, 2023
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Breasts and Eggs
Mieko KawakamiMerve Emre.@sarahchihaya's splendid essay for @nybooks on Mieko Kawakami's "Breasts and Eggs" & the post-desire novel: "What kinds of novels can be written about women who may not want anything from a world that may not have anything to offer them?" https://t.co/lGYULHBkRz
Paperback, 2021
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonMerve Emre@JaneSaunte I was baiting him a little there, but I do recommend Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49," Christine Brooke-Roses's "Textermination," (although her short story "The Foot" might be even better), & Toni Morrison's "Beloved."
Paperback, 2004
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A View of the Harbour
Elizabeth TaylorMerve EmreMaking my way in fits & starts through Elizabeth Taylor’s A VIEW OF THE HARBOUR & charmed by this description of how censorship at the local library sends patrons looking for pornography in “Jane Eyre.” https://t.co/yEfxU7I5KH
Paperback, 2015
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