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Naomi 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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Naomi Elias is a writer. ✍🏾: @thenation @TheCut @InterviewMag @ELLEmagazine @LAReviewofBooks @KQEDarts @TheBrooklynRail @wmag @InStyle @NylonMag @TeenVogue (she/her)

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Book Cover for: Fat Off, Fat on: A Big Bitch Manifesto, Clarkisha Kent

Fat Off, Fat on: A Big Bitch Manifesto

Clarkisha Kent
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Fat Off, Fat On chronicles her long journey to deprogramming herself from the anti-fat sociocultural messaging that Kent absorbed while growing up. She’s hoping it will act as a guide to help readers deprogram themselves, too.

Paperback, 2023

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, Malcolm Harris

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris
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My latest book review for @KQEDarts: @BigMeanInternet's Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (thanks to the author for speaking with me for this piece!) https://t.co/m02nDBUtpx

Hardcover, 2023

$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Excavations, Hannah Michell

Excavations

Hannah Michell
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Wrote about @HannahMichell's new Seoul-set mystery novel, Excavations, for @KQEDarts The story is loosely inspired by the 1995 Sampoong Department Store collapse, one of the deadliest disasters in modern South Korean history https://t.co/fXyFDI9ZdZ

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Book Cover for: Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life, Renata Cherlise

Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life

Renata Cherlise
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For this feature for @TheCut, I interviewed Renata Cherlise, founder of @blackarchivesco, about her new book Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life I'm thrilled with how this it came together 🖤 https://t.co/0B7mlPj411

Hardcover, 2023

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada

Scattered All Over the Earth

Yoko Tawada
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catching up on #BookTwitter news — so happy to see Yoko Tawada's strange/funny/smart book about a group of climate refugees who become friends was longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature! very deserved, one of my fav reads this year (&that cover)

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Tell Me I'm an Artist, Chelsea Martin

Tell Me I'm an Artist

Chelsea Martin
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Martin delineates the way the creative process can be a conduit for either self-discovery or self-annihilation ... Every person, young or old, who has ever wanted to make something will see some part of themselves in some part of [Joey].

Paperback, 2023

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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