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Sophie Haigney Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Sophie Haigney is an essayist, critic, and editor. Web editor @parisreview / writing a book about collections

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Book Cover for: Beat Writers at Work: The Paris Review, Paris Review

Beat Writers at Work: The Paris Review

Paris Review
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

"Finally a publication that's good enough for me" - @themjeans reading The Paris Review 💚 https://t.co/1DkVtpwYOD

Paperback, 1999

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Stoner, John Williams

Stoner

John Williams
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

I was totally absorbed in this quiet portrait of one man’s consciousness, from cradle to grave—there’s no other book quite like it, is there?... I will never forget my favorite sentence: “And so he had his love affair.”

Paperback, 2006

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner), Norman Rush

Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

Norman Rush
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

“The utopia of equal love” between equals is possible desirable and difficult and this novel doesn’t insult its readers’ intelligences about any of this, and for this we adore it!

Paperback, 1992

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Either/Or, Elif Batuman

Either/Or

Elif Batuman
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

For @newrepublic, I reviewed Elif Batuman’s new book and considered the question: Do people have to fall in love and have sex for a novel to work?

Paperback, 2023

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ghosts, Edith Wharton

Ghosts

Edith Wharton
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

Trying to figure out how to explain to people that I am not “a ghost” for Halloween but rather…Edith Wharton’s “Ghosts”

Paperback, 2021

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Mother's Recompense: Large Print, Edith Wharton

The Mother's Recompense: Large Print

Edith Wharton
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

A good book to read in November is The Mother’s Recompense by Edith Wharton

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Book Cover for: Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux

Simple Passion

Annie Ernaux
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

We have a new magazine! Darryl Pinckney interviews Jamaica Kincaid! Annie Ernaux’s diary of the affair that inspired Simple Passion!!! https://t.co/PSWJTlS1cC

Paperback, 2003

$12.95Member price:$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley

Late in the Day

Tessa Hadley
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

@Kaitlin_M_Ruiz Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley!

Paperback, 2023

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Couplets: A Love Story, Maggie Millner

Couplets: A Love Story

Maggie Millner
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

Maggie Millner reading Middlemarch in a bar 💕(from “Couplets”) https://t.co/IbvDv6ImmL

Out of stock

Book Cover for: Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney
Sophie HaigneySophie Haigney

The similarities btwn the last lines of Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Norman Rush's Mating (“come and get me”/“je viens. why not?)...really something to think of about....

Paperback, 2018

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book