Monica Byrne Book Recommendations
Monica Byrne is a playwright and science fiction author. Buy THE ACTUAL STAR: https://t.co/1h6FqSpUgR. Itinerant writer. Reps at Kaplan/Perrone and CAA. She/her.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine BooMonica ByrneI finished Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Extraordinary work, no doubt, and I was eager to find out more about the author and the book’s legacy, and…apparently it was a National Theatre stage play in London in 2014…? That feels…weird?
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
Rebecca TraisterMonica ByrneTonight’s movie: YEAR OF THE WOMAN (1972), a buried feminist classic. I had to watch it after reading about it in @rtraister’s book GOOD AND MAD. It’s up on YouTube in its entirety. https://t.co/ddmmW7ELx2
Hardcover, Large Print, 2019
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
E: Monogram Initial E Letter Ruled Notebook for Women, Girl and School, Pink Floral Cover 8.5'' x 11'', 100 pages
Happy BooksMonica ByrneE-books and audiobooks are more complicated to gift anonymously. But I know folks need them for accessibility, or because they're outside the U.S., or just prefer them. I am VERY happy to let folks just use this thread to donate/request e-/audio copies via DM--have at it!...(5/6)
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Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Robert RodriguezMonica ByrneTonight’s movie: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. I feel good about it because I just started reading Robert Rodriguez’s REBEL WITHOUT A CREW. Also, hello to Sol from Deadwood, right out of the gate! https://t.co/Uutu5mJNkr
Paperback, 1996
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Voices
Ursula K. Le GuinMonica Byrne"Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now...We will need writers who can remember freedom." - Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014
Paperback, 2008
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank HerbertMonica ByrneFrank Herbert put his glossary right at the beginning of Dune. I was tempted to do the same. The infodump-up-front approach.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2019
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le GuinMonica ByrneYes! Though what inspired it more were Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt. If you like those, I think you'll like The Actual Star. https://t.co/ZnWjRsU4q0
Paperback, 2003
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley RobinsonMonica Byrne@noahgittell There’s an entire book about exactly that, called The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Paperback, 2021
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shaman
Kim Stanley RobinsonMonica Byrne@davidwengrow @J_C_French @NowellApril @DeathRadical Have you read Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Shaman? Highly recommended--a story of a nomadic kin group in Ice Age Europe, with a teenager as the protagonist.
Hardcover, 2013
$42.00$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Years of Rice and Salt
Kim Stanley RobinsonMonica ByrneYes! Though what inspired it more were Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt. If you like those, I think you'll like The Actual Star. https://t.co/ZnWjRsU4q0
Paperback, Mass Market, 2003
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book