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

The Sacred Fount: Novel
Henry James
@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
Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!
Deck D'Arcy
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
A Heart That Works
Rob Delaney
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
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
@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
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
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
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
Kerry Howley
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
Septology
Jon Fosse
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
Ghost Town
Kevin Chen
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
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Jane Cabrera
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
Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
Matthew T. Huber
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