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 JamesPeter C. Baker@blgtylr screenplay by sally roons, adapted from the novel by henry james, directed by jane campion (yes, again)
Paperback, 1995
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Phoenix: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix!
Deck D'ArcyPeter C. Bakerhow often does Francis Ford Coppola listen to his son-in-law Thomas Mars's band, the French pop group Phoenix ?
Hardcover, 2019
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A Heart That Works
Rob DelaneyPeter C. BakerThe 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
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Beauty
Zadie SmithPeter 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
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Earthlings
Sayaka MurataPeter C. BakerSayaka Murata's EARTHLINGS made me feel like the walls of my bedroom were melting a bit https://t.co/n4MtUBtG36
Paperback, 2021
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
Kerry HowleyPeter C. BakerI 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
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Killing Stella
Marlen HaushoferPeter C. BakerThe sense of danger suffusing the prose is all the more potent for its murky origins. What’s more petrifying than something we sense is lurking in the closet at night, but we can’t see or name?
Paperback, 2025
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ghost Town
Kevin ChenPeter C. BakerI reviewed the Taiwanese novelist Kevin Chen's crowded and lively "Ghost Town" for @nytimesbooks https://t.co/hcVwBrMTDK https://t.co/2NuoM74uO4
Hardcover, 2022
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There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Jane CabreraPeter C. BakerThere Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe With A Huge Yard and Lobbied Against Zoning Reform
Paperback, 2017
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Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
Matthew T. HuberPeter C. Bakerclear-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
$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book