Paul Holdengraber Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Former Founding Dir. OnassisLA & Dir. LIVEfromNYPL | Interviewer, Instigator, Curator of Public Curiosity | Also Quotomania & TheQuarantineTapes @dublab @lithub

Middlemarch
George Eliot
📖 GEORGE ELIOT Born on this day, in 1819 Will forever cherish the conversation with @Rebeccamead_NYC @NYPL on George Eliot, Middlemarch and long lasting marriages. https://t.co/WiV6Ndf32y
Hardcover, 2011
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995
Adrienne Cecile Rich
🔶 ADRIENNE RICH Born on this day, in 1929 “For in the mornings, hunger for clarity coffee and bread with sour plum jam.” ~ from, “To The Days” in Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995” thanks to @kitchenIovers https://t.co/PeqNmPiIWl
Paperback, 1995
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Price of Salt
Patricia Highsmith
“‘Are you tired?’ Carol asked calmly. The question seemed not of now but of always.” ~ Patricia Highsmith, from “The Price of Salt, or Carol” thanks to @readingnooks https://t.co/DCM7TiYLmj
Paperback, 2021
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes
for #ValentinesDay “Am I in love? — Yes, since I’m waiting.” from “Fragments of a Lover's Discourse” ~ Roland Barthes https://t.co/JaA9AkEj4c
Paperback, 2010
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
🔶 PAUL VALERY Born on this day, in 1871 “I am brutal, but I have, or did have, a mania for precision.” ~ Paul Valery to Andre Gide [Epigram to Cormac McCarthy, “Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West, 1985] thanks to @infinita_fiori https://t.co/X92TWBRYXV
Paperback, 1992
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
V.
Thomas Pynchon
🔷 THOMAS PYNCHON Born on this day, in 1937 “To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.” ~ from, “V” thanks to @tittiscotti https://t.co/NgStQBfIeT
Paperback, 2005
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The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Cormac McCarthy
🔥 Cormac McCarthy Born on this day, in 1933 “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” ~ from, “The Road” thanks to @LiteraryVienna https://t.co/MlD3dp9jeO
Paperback, 2007
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Prison Notebooks: Volume 1
Antonio Gramsci
♦️ ANTONIO GRAMSCI Born on this day, in 1891 “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” ~ from, The Prison Notebooks” https://t.co/SaFRpxniuQ
Paperback, 2011
$37.00$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Poetics of Space
Gaston Bachelard
🔶 GASTON BACHELARD Born on this day, in 1884 “The house shelters reverie, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows us to dream in peace." ~ from, “The Poetics of Space” thanks to @crossmansusanna https://t.co/2UTqnHFY9o
Paperback, 2014
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
🖤 SYLVIA PLATH Died on this day, in 1963 “I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old." ~ from “The Bell Jar”(Published on January 14, 1963) thanks to @InlibroV https://t.co/9Od3pHdfgW
Paperback, 2005
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book