Sam Stephenson 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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Gene Smith's Sink (@fsgbooks 2017). @GuggFellows 2019 in Nonfiction. Tar Heel. “Attentiveness without an object is prayer in its supreme form.” - Simone Weil.
Suttree
Cormac McCarthySam StephensonI researched and wrote on Cormac McCarthy and Suttree in a 13-part online multi-media series called Big Bent Ears, put together at @parisreview by @nicolerudick and me in 2015. If that series was still online I'd link it. (It's part of a manuscript I'll be shopping in Fall).
Paperback, 1992
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Camino Real
Tennessee WilliamsSam Stephenson@ClaireDederer It's a play, but I've never seen a production of it, have relied on the book: "Camino Real" by Tennessee Williams.
Paperback, 2008
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White People
Allan GurganusSam Stephenson@Ursulaofthebook Allan Gurganus “White People”
Paperback, 2000
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Play
Tennessee WilliamsSam Stephenson@ClaireDederer It's a play, but I've never seen a production of it, have relied on the book: "Camino Real" by Tennessee Williams.
Paperback, 2010
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Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook
Ricky MooreSam StephensonRockfish stew, made yesterday with drum that my 7 year old son and I caught in West Matagorda Bay, TX on Sunday. Drum is sub for rockfish (striped bass). Recipe from the Beard-winning Ricky Moore's Saltbox Seafood Joint cookbook from @UNC_Press. https://t.co/sRRSrsiyh8
Hardcover, 2019
$27.50Member price:$13.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography
Julia Van HaaftenSam StephensonPublic libraries are magic. I just submitted interlibrary loan request to @BCSPubLib for "Destruction of Lower Manhattan" (1969) by Danny Lyon and "Berenice Abbott: Life in Photography" (2018) by Julia van Haaften. I expect the books will come from Houston and be here next week.
Hardcover, 2018
$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Be Holding: A Poem
Ross GaySam Stephenson@LukeEpplin John Edgar Wideman's writing on basketball, "Hoop Roots," and "Briefs." One of a kind, influential to Ross Gay's "Be Holding." And almost certainly related to your topic.
Paperback, 2020
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns
Donald HaringtonSam Stephenson@lacymjohnson Probably the main ones that come to mind for me you've already recommended, like Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard. But there's a somewhat obscure one about Arkansas that I really loved by Donald Harington, Let Us Build Us a City.
Paperback, 2011
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The Books of Jacob
Olga TokarczukSam StephensonI knew it. God suffers from anxiety and PTSD. From “The Books of Jacob” by Olga Tokarczuk translated by @jenniferlcroft https://t.co/0xcY5l2rUp
Paperback, 2023
$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation
William H. GassSam Stephenson@_unwell William Gass - "Reading Rilke." Also, "Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime Petrose" by Durling and Martinez. And ditto another response about Susan Howe on Dickinson.
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