Southeast Review 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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Swallowed Light
Michael Wasson
We have a new online book review written by Landis Grenville featuring SWALLOWED LIGHT by Michael Wasson from @CopperCanyonPrs. His poetry is historical, haunted, honest, and beautiful, and the way Landis reviews the book is poetic itself. Read it here! https://bit.ly/3AOATJx
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
#WordyWednesday! Today use a made up word from Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Horrorshow. This word is used to describe a good time. For example, “Time for a real horrorshow of a day!” Try it in any poem, nonfiction essay, or fiction story for a witty or strange effect!
Paperback, 2019
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thin Places
Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
We are excited to share our new book review of @kerri_ni’s memoir from @canongatebooks Thin Places! Read all about ní Dochartaigh’s vulnerability in making new connections to the environment now. https://t.co/eKEKzUuk9I https://t.co/x4TMOcAQaV
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Happy birthday to the wonderful Virginia Woolf. Today’s #TriviaTuesday is dedicated to her. When do the events of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway take place?
Paperback, 1990
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dream Kitchen: Volume 26
Owen McLeod
Congrats to SER contributor Owen McLeod for winning the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry for his book of poems, Dream Kitchen, to be published in 2019 by @UNTpress. Check out his poem “You Bet Your Life” from SER 35.2, Fall 2017! #amreading #amwriting #litmags https://t.co/Xmo3MaLz3j
Paperback, 2019
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
Reaction starting Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: What a fun game! I wonder who is going to win some money! Reaction after finishing Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: https://t.co/OxLfBrFqpd
Hardcover, 2008
$34.25$17.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sansanosmilus
Jesse Russell
"Most stories I write are an excuse to wallow in my own sadness. For this one, I wanted to yell at myself...." Check out our latest "About the Work" interview with @lifeinsitcoms on "Sans Souci" from Vol. 40.1! https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/about-the-work-with-wilhelm-sitz
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Kindred
Octavia Butler
That’s right, happy birthday Octavia E. Butler! She was born June 22, 1947, which would make today her 75th birthday if she were still here today. Celebrate by reading Kindred, Fledgling, or Parable of the Sower.
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
It has been over a week since Sally Rooney’s ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You’ was released to our eager eyes and we’re wondering...what’s your verdict? #fiction #normalpeople4ever https://t.co/f2W0MPclJ8
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bewilderness
Karen Tucker
We’d like to say a deep, bellowing, well deserved, and warm CONGRATULATIONS to our own fiction editor @_karentucker_!!! BEWILDERNESS, Karen’s first novel, was just picked up by Catapult Books!!! 💥 🧨✨🎁♥️
Hardcover, 2021
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book