Rob Spillman 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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Mastodon: @RobSpillman@writing.exchange Tin House editor 1999-2019, coach w/ @TheOpEdProject, manuscript consults via @theshipmanagency, https://t.co/zKuS8NQpmL

The Family Chao
Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang on the visual inspirations behind The Family Chao https://t.co/vVvZKZmhhT
Hardcover, Large Print, 2022
$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stop-Time: A Memoir
Frank Conroy
@Andrew_Ervin Frank Conroy's Stop Time, Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal, Nabokov's Speak, Memory
Paperback, 1977
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Denial
Jon Raymond
Always psyched to read anything Jon Raymond writes. 13 Ways of Looking at Denial: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel https://t.co/yy18D8QckI via @lithub
Out of stock

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Joseph Osmundson
A fabulous 13 Ways of Looking from @reluctantlyjoe. 13 Ways of Looking at a Virus: Joseph Osmundson on the Visual Side of Virology https://t.co/cOC4C7oaVu via @lithub
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frank: Sonnets
Diane Seuss
@likaluca If you haven't already read Diane Seuss's Frank: Sonnets, run, don't walk. Recentish favs include Jane Hirshfield's Ledger and Haleh Liza Gafori's new translations of Rumi, Gold, from NYRB.
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Favorite poetry craft books? Two of mine are Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook and Ellen Bryant Voigt's The Art of Syntax.
Paperback, 2009
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ledger: Poems
Jane Hirshfield
@likaluca If you haven't already read Diane Seuss's Frank: Sonnets, run, don't walk. Recentish favs include Jane Hirshfield's Ledger and Haleh Liza Gafori's new translations of Rumi, Gold, from NYRB.
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry
Mary Oliver
Favorite poetry craft books? Two of mine are Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook and Ellen Bryant Voigt's The Art of Syntax.
Paperback, 1994
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pilgrim Bell: Poems
Kaveh Akbar
Give Kaveh Akbar a prompt & he’ll turns it inside out, make it utterly new and brilliant. The award-winning poet presents 13 visual representations of poems included in his second collection, Pilgrim Bell, just out from Graywolf Press. https://t.co/6vsRXt5G3R via @PioneerWorks_
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems
Agha Shahid Ali
What a beautiful essay. "One could even argue that ghazals aren’t poems at all, but a capricious assembly of couplets that could easily part ways." Made me really miss the irrepressible Agha Shahid Ali. https://t.co/9Oxq9SGjZZ
Paperback, 2003
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book