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New York Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, Mark Chiusano

The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos

Mark Chiusano
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

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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Book Cover for: Tell Me Lies, Carola Lovering

Tell Me Lies

Carola Lovering
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

“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
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Book Cover for: Waxing on: The Karate Kid and Me, Ralph Macchio

Waxing on: The Karate Kid and Me

Ralph Macchio
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

.@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
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Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

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
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Book Cover for: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, Patrick Radden Keefe

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

.@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
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Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

@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
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Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

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
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Book Cover for: Inferno: A Poet's Novel, Eileen Myles

Inferno: A Poet's Novel

Eileen Myles
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

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
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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

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
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Book Cover for: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, Mark Manson

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson
New York MagazineNew York Magazine

.@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
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