Sebastian Stockman @substockman.bsky.social Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--
Andrew Pettegree
From Andrew Pettegree’s BRAND LUTHER, about the effect of print culture on the spread of the Reformation and vice versa. (Good stuff esp if you’re a lapsed Lutheran) https://t.co/KPfSQdyjI3
Paperback, 2016
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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Peter Brooks
Pretty sure this is the thesis of Peter Brooks’ @NYRB_Imprints book Seduced by Story https://t.co/Rk3WhsHhVG
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Facts of Life: and Other Dirty Jokes
Willie Nelson
@jduffyrice Just signed up. Your opening made me think of the first sentences from Willie Nelson’s (presumably) ghostwritten THE FACTS OF LIFE AND OTHER DIRTY JOKES: “They say writing the first line of a book is the hardest part. Thank God that’s over.”
Paperback, 2003
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nobody's Looking at You: Essays
Janet Malcolm
Tweeting good news on a disintegrating ship, my long piece in @MajusculeLit about Janet Malcolm made the Best American Essays “Notables” list. https://t.co/nUBcX9uKtr
Paperback, 2020
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
I was dumbstruck, because this is the thesis in a nutshell of @oliverburkeman's Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and she just ... blurted it out. https://t.co/ArvCugceOG
Paperback, 2023
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