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Peter C. Baker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Peter C. Baker is an author and magazine writer. First novel, PLANES, out now from Knopf. Also magazine writing. https://t.co/qowCbnZWDS

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Book Cover for: The Sacred Fount: Novel, Henry James

The Sacred Fount: Novel

Henry James
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

@blgtylr screenplay by sally roons, adapted from the novel by henry james, directed by jane campion (yes, again)

Paperback, 1995

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!, Deck D'Arcy

Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!

Deck D'Arcy
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

how often does Francis Ford Coppola listen to his son-in-law Thomas Mars's band, the French pop group Phoenix ?

Hardcover, 2019

$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Heart That Works, Rob Delaney

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

The book can feel like a dagger that stabs you again and again...We watch over his shoulder as he re-creates moments of intimacy ... But we also get some laughs along the way. These two strands—the grief and the laughs—don’t just sit side by side; they work together.

Hardcover, 2022

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: On Beauty, Zadie Smith

On Beauty

Zadie Smith
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

@casa_tuthill @blgtylr Pictures of an Institution (Randall Jarrell) White Noise (DeLillo) Groves of Academe (Mary McCarthy) On Beauty (Zadie Smith)

Paperback, 2006

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Earthlings, Sayaka Murata

Earthlings

Sayaka Murata
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

Sayaka Murata's EARTHLINGS made me feel like the walls of my bedroom were melting a bit https://t.co/n4MtUBtG36

Paperback, 2021

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State, Kerry Howley

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

Kerry Howley
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

I reviewed--and raved about, and quibbled with--Kerry Howley's stupendously sui generis BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS, a stylish meditation on surveillance, selfhood, and the post-9/11 psychocultural mood board. https://t.co/RP4lPIBnl4

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Septology, Jon Fosse

Septology

Jon Fosse
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

GoFundMe to buy Gordon Lish a copy of Jon Fosse's complete SEPTOLOGY

Paperback, 2023

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ghost Town, Kevin Chen

Ghost Town

Kevin Chen
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

I reviewed the Taiwanese novelist Kevin Chen's crowded and lively "Ghost Town" for @nytimesbooks https://t.co/hcVwBrMTDK https://t.co/2NuoM74uO4

Hardcover, 2022

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Jane Cabrera

There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

Jane Cabrera
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe With A Huge Yard and Lobbied Against Zoning Reform

Paperback, 2017

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, Matthew T. Huber

Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

Matthew T. Huber
Peter C. BakerPeter C. Baker

clear-eyed thread from an excellent and refreshingly concrete thinker on climate politics. his new book, 'Climate Change as Class War' should be getting reviewed more widely. https://t.co/a7QospK3Y0

Paperback, 2022

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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