NYU Creative Writing Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems
Bianca Stone
Come to a poetry reading to remember with Karisma Price ("I'm Always So Serious," Sarabande Books) and Bianca Stone ("What Is Otherwise Infinite," Tin House), Friday, 2/10, 5pm. Feat. introductions by NYU Graduate Students DeeSoul Carson and Ben Aleshire. https://t.co/sB4PimrVxr https://t.co/QlNhzHY8Cg
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Cartographers
Peng Shepherd
Congrats to alum @pengshepherd whose latest novel The Cartographers (out March 15th from William Morrow) made the USA Today Bestseller List, the national Indie Bookstores Bestseller List, and three regional Indie Bookstores Bestseller Lists in its second week!
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Meghan O'Rourke
Join us this Thursday 4/7 at 7pm ET for The New Salon: Writers in Conversation with @meghanor, hosted by @katiekitamura! Meghan will read from her just published memoir The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. RSVP/register here: https://t.co/gVcuVG665b https://t.co/iP6GYUy0VG
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Couplets: A Love Story
Maggie Millner
Cheers to NYU CWP alum, Maggie Millner, whose novel-in-verse "Couplets: A Love Story" has garnered rave reviews from The New York Times and The New Yorker ("Millner uses rhyme, confession, and surprising metaphor to create a fresh portrait of desire"). https://t.co/kJbgJzp1a3
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Flight Among the Tombs: Poems
Anthony Hecht
Alum @deblaublau's debut full-length collection of poems, peep, will be published next month in the US and UK by the @WaywiserPress as winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, selected by Vijay Seshadri: https://t.co/snE6vRfEbV
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Earth Room
Rachel Mannheimer
Alum @mannheimerup reads tonight from her new debut collection Earth Room, in conversation with CWP faculty member Catherine Barnett at McNally Jackson Seaport! https://t.co/NJHzEBFzCM
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Customs
Alia Croley
A beautiful write-up in the @NewYorker of alum #SolmazSharif 's new collection Customs by another one of our alums @athenek https://t.co/A2evgpB55X
Paperback, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems
Vijay Seshadri
Alum @deblaublau's debut full-length collection of poems, peep, will be published next month in the US and UK by the @WaywiserPress as winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, selected by Vijay Seshadri: https://t.co/snE6vRfEbV
Hardcover, 2020
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Writers in Conversation Volume 5
Christopher Bigsby
Join us this Thursday 4/7 at 7pm ET for The New Salon: Writers in Conversation with @meghanor, hosted by @katiekitamura! Meghan will read from her just published memoir The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. RSVP/register here: https://t.co/gVcuVG665b https://t.co/iP6GYUy0VG
Paperback, 2013
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
An Arrow to the Moon
Emily X. R. Pan
Happy pub day to alum @exrpan's latest novel An Arrow to the Moon! https://t.co/b0NfiYQs6s
Paperback, 2023
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book