PORT Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

Jeanette Winterson

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My Bear Can Talk – Jeanette Winterson shares an extract from her most recent work, 12 Bytes, an illuminating collection of essays that explore the radical consequences Artificial Intelligence will have on how we live, communicate and love (@Wintersonworld) https://t.co/l8ifvl96Ar https://t.co/A8dNXadD9Z

Hardcover, 2021

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Jules Verne

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth: Artist and wordsmith Wanda Orme on seeking an eternal flame in her latest poetry and photographic monograph Volcano Songs https://t.co/DkxpIO35qt

Paperback, 1996

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Liberation Day: Stories

George Saunders

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The contemporary master of the short story, George Saunders, talks to @ReeAmilcarScott about his latest work – Liberation Day – a subversive collection that often uses an uncanny version of tomorrow to question the power, ethics and justice of today https://t.co/WjKq4EqLoe

Paperback, 2023

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

All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir

Seán Hewitt

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All Down Darkness Wide: @seanehewitt discusses his masterful new memoir https://t.co/WgXtYYb2Yo https://t.co/K5dONvLJCY

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Nights of Plague

Orhan Pamuk

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For issue 31, Nobel Prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk shares an opening chapter from his latest epic, Nights of Plague https://t.co/wFC9kZdseX

Paperback, 2023

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Gus Van Sant: The Art of Making Movies

Katya Tylevich

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Gus Van Sant: In conversation with the legendary artist and filmmaker, as well as Katya Tylevich, discussing his life and her recent book on the auteur https://t.co/t5D5bSs0AF https://t.co/Eib5dj4fNF

Hardcover, 2021

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

A Shock

Keith Ridgway

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Keith @rid9way's long awaited book – A Shock – is a fragmented yet interconnected story of Londoners consumed by emotions and anxieties and narratives, or the lack thereof, that they cannot master. Here, we run an exclusive extract: https://buff.ly/3wVBe8i https://t.co/jLjfhgfBrN

Paperback, 2021

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

Irene Solà

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When I Sing, Mountains Dance: Irene Solà presents the opening chapter of her fiercely imaginative book – a wild and lyrical ode to the terrible beauty of the natural world and its inhabitants https://t.co/gM7RtF5Cvh https://t.co/YDeFK0D7eX

Paperback, 2022

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

Acting Class

Nick Drnaso

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Nick Drnaso reflects on his hallucinatory new book: Acting Class https://t.co/0eEH8fInQ5

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

Eyal Weizman

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Violence at the Threshold of Detectability: The founder of @ForensicArchi, @weizman_eyal, reflects on moral paradoxes and the traces left by trauma for issue 30 https://t.co/jYRNFplTsw https://t.co/PbbcbRXxVn

Paperback, 2019

$42.00$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book