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Robert Sullivan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Rats, The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, My American Rev, Thoreau, etc. Contributing ed @APublicSpace Next: Double Exposure, April 2024, FSG

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Book Cover for: A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry

A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry
Robert SullivanRobert Sullivan

@APublicSpace And now I am going off the rails (apologies #APStogether) but I can't help but think of A Long Long Way, the great Sebastian Barry novel, as in some ways a response to the guns versus hurley sticks dialogue, though less response that a CUT TO ...

Paperback, 2005

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City, Lucy Sante

Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

Lucy Sante
Robert SullivanRobert Sullivan

Wherein I talk about the ways I liked Lucy Sante's "Nineteen Reservoirs" and how it came to be that NYC controls all that water, Philadelphia and all the communities down the Delaware be damned, as opposed to dammed. https://t.co/fPmsPk1ixF

Paperback, 2024

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Howdie-Skelp: Poems, Paul Muldoon

Howdie-Skelp: Poems

Paul Muldoon
Robert SullivanRobert Sullivan

@DavidRDye @wxpnfm "My Ride's Here" not just mentioning authors but written by Warren Zevon w/ a poet/ author of poems: Paul Muldoon! For the WIN! (Another great show.)

Paperback, 2022

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Big Sea: An Autobiography, Langston Hughes

The Big Sea: An Autobiography

Langston Hughes
Robert SullivanRobert Sullivan

I will not, alas, be #Thoreau -ing at #BKBF but will be #Trancendentaling in Red Hook BK (named for its clay, btw) as Suzanne Sullivan sells nautically tuned bells (& other cool stuff), because what did HDT most love about NYC when he lived in Staten Island? The Big Sea! https://t.co/RuYpZbuCFk

Paperback, 1993

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book