richard scott larson 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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Grey Bees
Andrey Kurkovrichard scott larsonGREY BEES by Andrey Kurkov (trans. @BorisDralyuk) is essential reading; here's an excerpt from the beginning, but the second half is an odyssey through the borderlands and is an absolute marvel https://t.co/KKNfS5uOr5
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Joanna Biggsrichard scott larson"[I]t seemed to me that so many of these writers were trying to understand something in their life and make it into art, to transform it into something that would last." @JoannaBiggs https://t.co/QgqcvLoMXG
Paperback, 2024
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sabbath's Theater: National Book Award Winner
Philip Rothrichard scott larson"A moral education depends not on condemning or averting our gaze from filth, [Philip Roth's SABBATH'S THEATER] suggests, but on diving wholeheartedly into it." @GarthGreenwell https://t.co/TLgqEyho1D
Paperback, 1996
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shame
Annie Ernauxrichard scott larson"In the radical honesty of an Ernaux book, the self is the home of shame and desire. Both have the same terminus, death. It is not the case that writing, for Ernaux, forestalls death. Writing simply creates another person, a past self..." https://t.co/yvQZKIDee1
Paperback, 1998
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Willa Cather: Double Lives
Hermione Leerichard scott larsonHermione Lee spends several pages on this story in her biography of Willa Cather, so I checked it out and now I cannot continue with my day because it's just so incredibly good https://t.co/q4jfVS7mUI
Paperback, 2017
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hervé Guibert: Voices of the Self
Jean Pierre Boulérichard scott larsonI started reading the epic volume of Herve Guibert’s journals at MacDowell and I’m still savoring them slowly because his voice sends me straight back to my studio, reading alone by the fireplace while the snow falls
Paperback, 1999
$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text
Danterichard scott larsonDante’s Inferno in the form of an ancient well in Sintra: 7 meters deeper for each of heaven, earth, and purgatory. We ended the descent in a wet cave full of other tourists with cameras sprouting from their bodies like uncontrollable appendages so I see what Dante did there. https://t.co/B0YqXREgzN
Paperback, 2021
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Biography of X
Catherine Laceyrichard scott larsonI bought almost all of these books immediately after reading this list from @_catherinelacey https://t.co/jRWqgruGRR
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ghost Story
Peter Straubrichard scott larsonPeter Straub was one of the greats. I'll never forget my first read of GHOST STORY as a kid and how much it taught me about what fiction could do. It's a comfort that he left behind so many great books to treasure.
Paperback, 2016
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The Shards
Bret Easton Ellisrichard scott larson"Writing itself—what we put into the world—is the source of horror. Just doing it makes you guilty of something." https://t.co/CLuKwvAdcA
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book