New York Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos
Mark Chiusano
In an excerpt from Mark Chiusano’s book The Fabulist, we learn how George Santos learned to con inside a Queens call center for The Dish Network.
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Tell Me Lies
Carola Lovering
“This was a red-carpet moment, and I was like, ‘Can you please hold on? I need to finish pumping.’” https://t.co/sQdqThPanY
Paperback, 2019
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Waxing on: The Karate Kid and Me
Ralph Macchio
.@ralphmacchio lived in a 1980s bubble, too far inside the era to be well-versed on the nostalgia for it. Read an excerpt from his new memoir, "Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me" https://t.co/8T0iVnJxgn
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
A long talk with @colsonwhitehead, whose heist novel, Harlem Shuffle, is about life in the gray area between legitimate business and hustle https://nym.ag/2XqahNx
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Patrick Radden Keefe
.@praddenkeefe has written about all kinds of disreputable figures. He spoke with @MrJDWalsh about his new book "Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks" and the "inescapable cruelty" of his work https://t.co/LC61Im0Xyz
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
@BilgeEbiri 10. @AbbottKahler reported on how "Water for Elephants" author Sara Gruen’s six-year fight to free an incarcerated man left her absolutely broke and critically ill https://t.co/U9S6QXwe0A
Paperback, 2007
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
In Sally Rooney's "Beautiful World, Where Are You," eroticism is as much mental as it is physical. @amil writes https://nym.ag/3kaZ5xa
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno: A Poet's Novel
Eileen Myles
The best sex @melissafebos ever read is a passage from the poet Eileen Myles’s novel "Inferno" that breaks all the rules Febos once learned about writing sex. A conversation with @maddiecrum https://t.co/iC2TWEWFBs
Paperback, 2016
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
A simple idea informs all of Hanya Yanagihara's fiction: If true misery exists, then so might true love. @andrealongchu writes on the author of "A Little Life" and the new "To Paradise" https://nym.ag/3g4Mrgk
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
.@IAmMarkManson sold 12 million copies of his self-help hit, "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck." Then he started taking his own advice. @benjwallace reports https://nym.ag/3Omff3i
Hardcover, 2016
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book