Stephanie Insley Hershinow 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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Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. RTs are jokes I wish I'd made first.
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John E. HopkinsStephanie Insley Hershinow@Desimumbles @friede I don’t know the current numbers, but John’s Hopkins? Far fewer than 20 when I was there.
Paperback, 2012
$7.00$3.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel
David KurnickStephanie Insley Hershinow@RohanMaitzen This makes me think of David Kurnick’s Empty Houses, about why so many great novelists were failed dramatists.
Paperback, 2011
$37.00$18.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay
Jordan PeeleStephanie Insley Hershinow@SethRudy I don’t like horror, but I do love Jordan Peele. Agree that doing Get Out at the end is v smart.
Paperback, 2019
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nothing to See Here
Kevin WilsonStephanie Insley Hershinow@AdmitMeChorus Groff’s Matrix is beautifully read. Kevin Wilson’s Nothing to See Here very funny and strange and sweet.
Paperback, 2020
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fantomina: Love in a Maze
Eliza HaywoodStephanie Insley HershinowI once listened to a TED talk about a guy who put a computer in a slum and watched the local kids teach themselves and the point was teachers are not needed. That’s bullshit EXCEPT for when you give college students Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina.
Paperback, 2021
$4.50$2.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Female Quixote
Charlotte LennoxStephanie Insley HershinowIf I wrote a whole novel the premise of which was "female quixote" and only learned at the time of publication that there was a whole existing novel called "The Female Quixote," I don't think I'd brag about it in Publishers Weekly. https://t.co/tWEV2XcSFh
Paperback, 2021
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel
Stephanie Insley HershinowStephanie Insley HershinowNot everyone knows this, but Taylor Swift also wrote another book, under a pseudonym. It’s called Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel, and you can buy it here: https://t.co/5FmKsoltnK https://t.co/djh1210xYO
Paperback, 2020
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew DesmondStephanie Insley Hershinow@emayfarris Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but maybe something like Evicted, by Matthew Desmond?
Paperback, 2017
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wife of Willesden
Zadie SmithStephanie Insley HershinowBless Zadie Smith for being funny and smart. I don’t know what’s next for The Wife of Willesden (run ends tomorrow here), but see it if you can!
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Books for Children, Books for Adults
Teresa MichalsStephanie Insley Hershinow@laura_franey Yeah! There’s a great book by Teresa Michals, if you’re interested, called Books for Children, Books for Adults, that argues that YA came first, adult lit had to be invented later.
Paperback, 2016
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book