Mike ✍️▶️ 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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Art | Science Fiction | Class | Popular Culture. Editor/Co-Founder @TheDbleNgtve | Work with me: mike@thedoublenegative.co.uk Pronouns: he/him
The African Desperate
Martine SymsMike ✍️▶️Martine Syms' debut feature, The African Desperate, is on @mubiuk. Alongside it, though, you also can see a pair of the artist's recent short films skewering cultural mores - She Mad: Bitch Zone, and Soliloquy. https://t.co/igvKP2Nqoj
Paperback, 2022
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Science
Let's WriteMike ✍️▶️I write about art, class, pop culture, science fiction, sometimes all at the same time. Let's work together and do something great.
Paperback, 2019
$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Phantoms
Gwendoline RileyMike ✍️▶️Reading Gwendoline Riley's My Phantoms. Absolutely brutal, but brilliantly observed take on the fissures - and fractures - in families.
Paperback, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fog
James HerbertMike ✍️▶️@runalongwomble Morning! I'm reading the very dated, absolutely preposterous (but still quite entertaining) The Fog, by James Herbert.
Paperback, 2018
$18.99Member price:$18.04 + Free shipping5% off
The Silence
Don DelilloMike ✍️▶️Reading Don DeLillo's The Silence. Funny - I've never 'got' DeLillo, trying and failing with Cosmopolis, but rattling through this (albeit very short) book.
Paperback, 2021
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Science Fiction
Sherryl VintMike ✍️▶️It's an art & sci-fi day. Reading an excellent essay by Sherryl Vint - 'From the New Wave into the Twenty-First Century' - in the equally excellent Science Fiction: A Literary History from @BL_Publishing, edited by @TheProfRog
Paperback, 2021
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Queen's Gambit
Walter TevisMike ✍️▶️Also v much worth reading the novel from which it's adapted, by Walter Tevis (Mockingbird, The Hustler, The Queen's Gambit).
Paperback, 2003
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Annihilation: The Screenplay
Alex GarlandMike ✍️▶️@Lee_Ashworth_ Alex Garland is a pretty interesting figure. Devs, Annihilation also v good. And Men looks like a must watch.
Paperback, 2018
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kindred: Gift Edition
Octavia E. ButlerMike ✍️▶️RT @awards_watch: FX has ordered KINDRED, based on MacArthur Fellow and Hugo Award winner Octavia E. Butler’s novel, to series. Branden Jac…
Hardcover, 2022
$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hit Parade of Tears: Stories
Izumi SuzukiMike ✍️▶️'His eyes were dead, like they were made of glass." From My Guy, track one of Izumi Suzuki's short story collection Hit Parade of Tears @VersoBooks https://t.co/Rb9RDRm2Ao
Paperback, 2023
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book