Mike Lindgren 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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Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick
@vromans @indiebound “Sleepless Nights,” by Elizabeth Hardwick
Paperback, 2001
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
@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
Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World
Sasha Fletcher
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
Out of stock

The White Album
Joan Didion
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
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
@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
The Stammering Century
Gilbert Seldes
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
Acts of Service
Lillian Fishman
"Acts of Service" by Lillian Fishman https://t.co/X53xsibaaT
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Spoils of Poynton (Annotated): Fiction
Henry James
@CallaWalsh Fiction: “Portrait of a Lady,” Henry James. Nonfiction: “The Argonauts,” Maggie Nelson
Out of stock

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
Joan Didion
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
This Wild Dance: Poems
S. R. Hardy
@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