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Mike Lindgren Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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managing editor @MelvilleHouse. opinions mine only

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Book Cover for: Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick

Sleepless Nights

Elizabeth Hardwick
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

@vromans @indiebound “Sleepless Nights,” by Elizabeth Hardwick

Paperback, 2001

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

@CallaWalsh Fiction: “Portrait of a Lady,” Henry James. Nonfiction: “The Argonauts,” Maggie Nelson

Paperback, 2014

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World, Sasha Fletcher

Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World

Sasha Fletcher
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

Our novel "Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World" by the brilliant @sasha_fletcher gets some pre-pub love from the good, good folks at Foreword: https://www.forewordreviews.com/articles/article/book-of-the-day-roundup-february-14-18-2022/ via @ForewordReviews

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Book Cover for: The White Album, Joan Didion

The White Album

Joan Didion
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

I will air a pet peeve. Joan Didion's essay "The White Album" begins with the famous sentence "we tell ourselves stories in order to live." The first sentence of the second graf: "Or at least we do for a while." 1/5

Paperback, 2009

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

@CallaWalsh Fiction: “Portrait of a Lady,” Henry James. Nonfiction: “The Argonauts,” Maggie Nelson

Paperback, 2016

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Stammering Century, Gilbert Seldes

The Stammering Century

Gilbert Seldes
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

I find this book by Gilbert Seldes on the 19th century — “The Stammering Century” — utterly marvelous. One of the most engaging and pleasurable books I’ve read in a long time

Paperback, 2012

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Acts of Service, Lillian Fishman

Acts of Service

Lillian Fishman
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

"Acts of Service" by Lillian Fishman https://t.co/X53xsibaaT

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Spoils of Poynton (Annotated): Fiction, Henry James

The Spoils of Poynton (Annotated): Fiction

Henry James
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

@CallaWalsh Fiction: “Portrait of a Lady,” Henry James. Nonfiction: “The Argonauts,” Maggie Nelson

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Book Cover for: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard, Joan Didion

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

Joan Didion
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

I will air a pet peeve. Joan Didion's essay "The White Album" begins with the famous sentence "we tell ourselves stories in order to live." The first sentence of the second graf: "Or at least we do for a while." 1/5

Hardcover, 2006

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Wild Dance: Poems, S. R. Hardy

This Wild Dance: Poems

S. R. Hardy
Mike LindgrenMike Lindgren

@pixie_casey Thomas Hardy's poems of 1912 - 1914 helped me through a hard time, pix

Paperback, 2021

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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