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Paul_R_Elie Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Georgetown senior fellow, @newyorker contributor, @FSGBooks alum, author of THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN and REINVENTING BACH

23 books
Book Cover for: So Where Are We?: Poems, Lawrence Joseph

So Where Are We?: Poems

Lawrence JosephPaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

"A major work of American art": that's what Paul Franz, in the Times Book Review (@nytimesbooks), called Lawrence Joseph's just-published Selected Poems (@fsgbooks). I have the privilege of leading a conversation w Joseph Monday noon. Hope you can join! https://t.co/0FdypWWgDY

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Book Cover for: Sea Lions in the Parking Lot: Animals on the Move in a Time of Pandemic, Lenora Todaro

Sea Lions in the Parking Lot: Animals on the Move in a Time of Pandemic

Lenora TodaroPaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

"How do we take all that we learned from our quieting down during the pandemic and find a way to coexist with wildlife so that we can help their survival"? @lenora_todaro in @pwkidsbookshelf on her amazing SEA LIONS IN THE PARKING LOT, from @astrakidsbooks https://t.co/HEsU1KaLr5

Hardcover, 2021

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Beyond: How Humankind Thinks about Heaven, Catherine Wolff

Beyond: How Humankind Thinks about Heaven

Catherine WolffPaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

At 4 p.m. ET today, I'll have the pleasure of moderating a conversation @Georgetown with Catherine Wolff and George Saunders about the challenges of writing about "the horizon of the known" - she in BEYOND, he in LINCOLN IN THE BARDO. Login details here: https://t.co/wf92rS63FG

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Book Cover for: Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo

George SaundersPaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

At 4 p.m. ET today, I'll have the pleasure of moderating a conversation @Georgetown with Catherine Wolff and George Saunders about the challenges of writing about "the horizon of the known" - she in BEYOND, he in LINCOLN IN THE BARDO. Login details here: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events

Hardcover, 2018

$37.45$18.73 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?, John W. O'Malley

Vatican II: Did Anything Happen?

John W. O'MalleyPaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

John O'Malley SJ, whom I had the good fortune to know @Georgetown, was a master of clarity: "What is special about Vatican II [is] that it made its decisions with full awareness of the reality of change and full awareness that that reality affected the church in all its aspects."

Paperback, 2007

$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, Jonathan D. Spence

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

Jonathan D. SpencePaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

THE MEMORY PALACE OF MATTEO RICCI, by Jonathan Spence, who died this week at 85, is the book that, for me, more than any other, opened up the Jesuit imagination - & showed how an essentially imaginative spirituality can shape the literary work itself https://t.co/dIC3kkW06J

Paperback, 1985

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor, John McPhee

The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

John McPheePaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

Doings in DC today recall John McPhee's scenario in THE CURVE OF BINDING ENERGY: "A one-kiloton bomb exploded just outside the exclusion area during the State of the Union message would kill everyone inside the Capitol. `It's hard for me to think of a higher-leverage target...'"

Paperback, 1994

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Bethrothed Lovers: I promessi sposi, George Thomas Bettany

The Bethrothed Lovers: I promessi sposi

George Thomas BettanyPaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

Tonight: looking forward to discussing Manzoni's I PROMESSI SPOSI (in supple new translation by Michael F. Moore) w Moore, @antoniospadaro, Antonio Monda, and Stefano Albertini. So glad to know this Italian novel at last https://t.co/KBBKKSyELr

Paperback, 2019

$44.90$22.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship, Pope Francis

Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship

Pope FrancisPaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

Really pleased to share word of a @Georgetown event taking place Wednesday, March 10, at 1 pm ET: Michael J. Sandel, Pankaj Mishra, and Marilynne Robinson discussing Pope Francis's encyclical Fratelli tutti and its points of contact with their own work https://t.co/d42lHBNLFF

Paperback, 2020

$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends

Sally RooneyPaul_R_EliePaul_R_Elie

.@fsgbooks campaign for #BWWAY isn't Sally Rooney's 1st book-merch rodeo; for CONVERSATIONS W/FRIENDS, @FaberBooks produced striped, dust-jacket-themed canvas beach chairs @nytimesbooks @ByKateDwyer https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/style/sally-rooney-book-merch.html

Paperback, 2018

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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