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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

156 books
Book Cover for: Middlemarch, George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

📖 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
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Book Cover for: Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995, Adrienne Cecile Rich

Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995

Adrienne Cecile Rich
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

🔶 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
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Book Cover for: The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith

The Price of Salt

Patricia Highsmith
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

“‘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
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Book Cover for: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, Roland Barthes

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Roland Barthes
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

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
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Book Cover for: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

🔶 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
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Book Cover for: V., Thomas Pynchon

V.

Thomas Pynchon
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

🔷 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

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Cormac McCarthy

The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Cormac McCarthy
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

🔥 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
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Book Cover for: Prison Notebooks: Volume 1, Antonio Gramsci

Prison Notebooks: Volume 1

Antonio Gramsci
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

♦️ 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
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Book Cover for: The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard

The Poetics of Space

Gaston Bachelard
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

🔶 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

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
Paul HoldengraberPaul Holdengraber

🖤 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
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