Spencer Tierney Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Spencer Tierney

@CherylStrayed Mona at Sea by @unefemmejames (about a college grad trying to deal with unemployment/underemployment after the 2008 crisis, and it's goddamn hilarious and poignant about self-growth), The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran (captivating history), Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So.

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@a_h_reaume Imaginative SFF story collection called Dance on Saturday by Elwin Cotman. A Very Nice Box (literary novel/tech satire/post-event trauma recovery thriller) by Eve Gleichman & Laura Blackett. Drifts by Kate Zambreno (relaxed pace of simple living, anxiety as an adjunct professor).

Spencer Tierney

@CherylStrayed Mona at Sea by @unefemmejames (about a college grad trying to deal with unemployment/underemployment after the 2008 crisis, and it's goddamn hilarious and poignant about self-growth), The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran (captivating history), Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So.

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@cflav The latest page-turners I read were The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (lyrical prose, family magic/curanderos, "memoir of the ghostly") & The City of Brass and rest of trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty (Middle Eastern fantasy, djinns, war-weary wisdom).

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@jdsctt Last week or so when I saw on insta stories that Carmen Maria Machado will have an early draft of a short story in an issue of Draft, which was also a new lit journal discovery for me at the same time.

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Well damn this is depressing. Mexican Gothic is really good & deserves better. (And if you don't know why American Dirt is a culturally detrimental book, I suggest reading https://t.co/6vPNDkYyhC) https://t.co/KBY5L2fuGH

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@a_h_reaume Yes, the vibe exactly. I picked it up randomly among the well-curated selections at Books Are Magic last time I was in New York. Same stroke of luck as when I picked up M Train by Patti Smith at Volumes when in Chicago. The magic of randomness.

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@KatieHAdams Mona at Sea by Elizabeth Gonzalez and Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor. Most immediate that came to mind and I read them over a year ago.

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@gwenekirby Signs Preceding The End of the World by Yuri Herrera (trans. by Lisa Dillman)

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@a_h_reaume Imaginative SFF story collection called Dance on Saturday by Elwin Cotman. A Very Nice Box (literary novel/tech satire/post-event trauma recovery thriller) by Eve Gleichman & Laura Blackett. Drifts by Kate Zambreno (relaxed pace of simple living, anxiety as an adjunct professor).