Slant Books 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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Slant is an independent, non-profit, literary press, founded & edited by Gregory Wolfe, publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, philosophy, & beyond.
Rose Is a Verb: Neo-Georgics
Karen An-Hwei LeeSlant BooksAnother week, another substantial & substantive review of a @SlantBooks title. This time: Karen An-hwei Lee's "Rose Is a Verb." Lee "gives readers a new vocabulary for coming to terms with everyday miracles." https://t.co/nXqvtf1bDi
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In the Unwalled City
Robert CordingSlant BooksTomorrow night! Please join us for the online book launch of "In the Unwalled City" with author Robert Cording. Register here: https://t.co/stTrTXoXJk https://t.co/IKzZr7qdqi
Hardcover, 2022
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Brendan
Frederick BuechnerSlant BooksGuest writer Dan Jenkins on "the perichoreses of adventure, legend, and human suffering are tangible, acute, and quite present" in the late Frederick Buechner’s novel "Brendan." Today at @SlantBooks's Close Reading blog. https://t.co/udNIxoAhLc
Paperback, 2000
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Wheel: Poems
Paul MarianiSlant BooksNew review at Christian Century. All That Will Be New, by Paul Mariani -- "his ninth book of poems...perhaps his most compelling and most profound." https://t.co/348oEpp88m
Paperback, 2007
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sleeping as Fast as I Can: Poems
Richard MichelsonSlant BooksTHIS WEDNESDAY! Oneline book launch for Richard Michelson's new poetry collection, "Sleeping as Fast as I Can." Register here to join us live! https://t.co/4LzG7o3rlz https://t.co/W8q9HJvan7
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shakeshafte and Other Plays
Rowan WilliamsSlant BooksThanks to all who joined us online for the "Shakeshafte and Other Plays" virtual book launch just now. Wasn't Rowan Williams amazing? We will post a link when the entire event is uploaded to YouTube.
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Red and the Black
StendhalSlant Books"I once sat through a big family fight in 1993 zoning out easily because I was immersed in reading Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, something that seems unlikely—unimaginable—to me now." https://t.co/T2nDn2E96G
Paperback, 2002
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Somewhere to Follow: Poems
Paul J. WillisSlant BooksA review of "Somewhere to Follow" (@SlantBooks): a book -- as the reviewer puts it -- from "the pen of a master craftsman and composer...Paul J. Willis." https://t.co/yRLsfNDVR1
Hardcover, 2021
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Meaning of Birth
Luigi GiussaniSlant Books@terriblebinth @wordkunst We do publish translated works -- most recently, "The Meaning of Birth" by Luigi Giussani & Giovanni Testori. Later this year we're publishing a translation from Polish and are hoping for a Russian translation soon.
Hardcover, 2021
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)
Kate LeboSlant BooksONE WEEK FROM TODAY! Sign up now for the book launch event for Nance Van Winckel's "Sister Zero" with special guest Kate Lebo, author of "The Book of Difficult Fruit." https://t.co/NLXMy1AZGi https://t.co/naJYe3QzUo
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book