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Sam Huber Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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writer | teacher | senior editor @YaleReview

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Book Cover for: The World Doesn't End: A Poetry Collection, Charles Simic

The World Doesn't End: A Poetry Collection

Charles Simic
Sam HuberSam Huber

Sorry to learn of Charles Simic’s passing — The World Doesn’t End changed my teenage life 💐 https://t.co/XXtICcgt2q

Paperback, 2011

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Waste Land: The Original 1922 Edition, T. S. Eliot

The Waste Land: The Original 1922 Edition

T. S. Eliot
Sam HuberSam Huber

We've republished a handful of great essays on Eliot from the @yalereview archives, alongside a sharp new piece by Langdon Hammer, to mark The Waste Land's centennial: https://t.co/h8NigvRhVZ

Hardcover, 2018

$17.49Member price:$15.74 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Black and Female: Essays, Tsitsi Dangarembga

Black and Female: Essays

Tsitsi Dangarembga
Sam HuberSam Huber

New issue of @yalereview includes essays by Margo Jefferson, Carolyn Forché, Pankaj Mishra; fiction by Tsitsi Dangarembga; poetry by Kwame Dawes, Wong May, Cathy Park Hong -- too much amazing stuff for one tweet 💫💫💫 Check it out: https://t.co/EcDY46BRxm

Hardcover, 2023

$23.00Member price:$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, Anne Carson

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

Anne Carson
Sam HuberSam Huber

@sampergadia my first, shamelessly adolescent thought is Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red!

Paperback, 1999

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Les Guerilleres, Monique Wittig

Les Guerilleres

Monique Wittig
Sam HuberSam Huber

@annashechtman @sampergadia @rawreader @mervatim @warthurw @LBMcGrath @XanderManshel @ZahidChaudhary1 @rgreenwaldsmith @mellymeldubs @lauraevers @nevernotyet @isanchezprado @ProfRafia @ranjodhd @PaulJEdwards2 @hilahkohen Seconding Russ! And in a similar vein (though far less funny): Monique Wittig’s Les Guerilleres stages a literal war of the sexes; Andrea Dworkin’s autobiographical novel Mercy (which I’ve only read pieces of) ends with a spate of random revenge killings

Paperback, 2007

$22.00Member price:$22.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe
Sam HuberSam Huber

"Arrangement is a form of attention." I learned so much from @ellezakelley's beautiful, attentive reading of Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes -- in @yalereview summer issue, up today: https://t.co/Kmpexcdecu

Hardcover, 2023

$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays, Amy Clampitt

Predecessors, Et Cetera: Essays

Amy Clampitt
Sam HuberSam Huber

@yalereview Also featuring short reflections by James Merrill, Amy Clampitt, Richard Wilbur, and Anthony Hecht, alongside longer essays by Helen Vendler and Louis Menand https://t.co/h8NigvRhVZ

Paperback, 1991

$20.95Member price:$20.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: A Wider Lens: How to See Your Life Differently: Volume 1, Kenneth Silvestri

A Wider Lens: How to See Your Life Differently: Volume 1

Kenneth Silvestri
Sam HuberSam Huber

Very excited for Mariame Kaba's talk "A Wider Lens: Black Women Resisting Violence," introduced by Margo Okazawa-Rey, at the Ann Snitow Prize ceremony next Wednes! Join us: https://t.co/nWudiO1eeH

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Book Cover for: Wedding Ban: Self Help book for black women who want marriage., Ebony She Black

Wedding Ban: Self Help book for black women who want marriage.

Ebony She Black
Sam HuberSam Huber

ICYMI, I wrote about Alice Childress for @nybooks -- TFANA's Brooklyn revival of her brilliant play Wedding Band ends this Sunday https://t.co/CjoiboqwJ1

Paperback, 2014

$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Just as I Thought, Grace Paley

Just as I Thought

Grace Paley
Sam HuberSam Huber

@hhnnccnnll So much Grace Paley! Especially title story of “enormous changes” and a number of essays in “just as I thought”

Paperback, 1999

$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book