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Rick Bailey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Personal essay. Three collections with @UnivNebPress. Also, Tumbling Up: A Memoir, 2022, AND NOW THIS: A Memoir in Essays, 2023.

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Book Cover for: Bark: Stories, Lorrie Moore

Bark: Stories

Lorrie Moore
Rick BaileyRick Bailey

from Lorrie Moore's Bark: "She had once, though only briefly, insisted that Man Ray and Ray Charles were brothers." "A pickup truck with the bumper sticker NO HILLARY NO WAY roared past us, and we stared at its message as if we were staring at a swastika."

Paperback, 2014

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand, Jim Harrison

The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand

Jim Harrison
Rick BaileyRick Bailey

@KristenPloetz MFK Fisher. Jim Harrison, The Raw and the Cooked.

Paperback, 2002

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage, Rachel Rueckert

East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

Rachel Rueckert
Rick BaileyRick Bailey

Thank you @Rachel_Rueckert for the chance to read and review East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage. It is a WONDERFUL book. Major congratulations and best of luck! https://t.co/YMB8z2igLg

Hardcover, 2022

$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Sea, John Banville

The Sea

John Banville
Rick BaileyRick Bailey

That feeling you get when you think, "I wish I'd written that." Banville's narrator in The Sea, thinking of his wife: She is lodged in me like a knife. #essay #5amwritersclub #memoir #nonfiction #writerslife #writer #writing #CreativeNonFiction

Paperback, 2006

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

John Banville
Rick BaileyRick Bailey

From John Banville's Snow: "She liked to hear the sound of my typewriter from the study downstairs. It was a comforting sound, she said, like listening to me think."

Paperback, 2021

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning, Meghan O'Gieblyn

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Meghan O'Gieblyn
Rick BaileyRick Bailey

@katkinneywrites Just read an excerpt of God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn. That's where I'm going next.

Paperback, 2022

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