Phil Klay 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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Phil Klay is an author and a former U.S. Marine Corps officer. Author of Redeployment, Missionaries, and Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War. Teaches at Fairfield University MFA.

79 books

The Plough and the Stars

Sean O'Casey

Phil Klay

I find it hilarious that when Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars was staged in 1926 it horrified William Bulter Yeats so much that he got up on stage and shouted “You have disgraced yourselves again!”

Paperback, 2011

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Atticus: Novel, a

Ron Hansen

Phil Klay

@DanielTorday Louise Erdrich, Annie Dillard, Ron Hansen, David Lodge, Cormac McCarthy, Wendell Berry, Alice McDermott and ME! Your friend. Whose books each have a long central chapter about a crisis of faith, and whose novel starts with a Catholic view of the person and ends with a prayer.

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

Phil Klay

Three wonderful novels: Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead, Hernan Diaz’s Trust, and @vauhinivara ‘s The Immortal King Rao. https://t.co/jGbSDzeIGx

Paperback, 2024

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

On the Rooftop

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Phil Klay

Virtual event this Thursday with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton! We’ll discuss her novel, ON THE ROOFTOP, and the relationship between art and community as it plays out in her beautifully evoked 1950s Fillmore district in San Fran. @eccobooks @FairfieldUMFA https://t.co/kdDcRcX7ky

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

Norman Rush

Phil Klay

Cool to hear @SamAdlerBell recommend Norman Rush’s great book MATING on @KnowYrEnemyPod

Paperback, 1992

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy Seals

David Philipps

Phil Klay

Nice to see this full page ad for @David_Philipps ‘s excellent Alpha in the Times https://t.co/LJsjuWWuDe

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman

Phil Klay

@thomaschattwill Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett on the back cover of the first edition of Good Omens https://t.co/7hnIwphmJN

Paperback, Mass Market, 2006

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Phil Klay

@rachsyme Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman

Paperback, 2006

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Libertie

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Phil Klay

Tonight! I talk LIBERTIE with the great @surlybassey via @FairfieldUMFA "Saints have big enough hearts that they can care for the whole world. Their hearts are so large they dwarf normal people’s—and their hearts aren’t dumb like human hearts... https://t.co/qTr9i0EiDR

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Robert Nozick

Phil Klay

@SamAdlerBell “Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, though based on an obvious fallacy that even Nozick later acknowledged, became the bible of adolescent libertarians of all ages.” I love Scialabba’s little drive-bys.

Paperback, 2013

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book