The Moth Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
Louise Glück
🌟 Shortlist announcement! 🌟 We're so excited to finally share this year's Moth Poetry Prize shortlist, as chosen by Nobel Prize winning poet Louise Glück, featuring four brilliant poems by Laurie Bolger, Kit Fan, J. P Grasser and Tom Laichas... https://t.co/scgvateMnt
Paperback, 2022
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Three Hundred Streets of Venice California
Tom Laichas
And completing our shortlist is Tom Laichas with 'Travel Advisory'. Laichas is author of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California, Sixty-Three Photographs from the End of a War and Empire of Eden. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt, Jabberwock, Stand and elsewhere.
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bacon's Essays: With Annotations: 3
Francis Bacon
❛ I feel at home here in this chaos because the chaos suggests images to me. With just 3 days until the deadline for this year's Moth Art Prize, maybe your studio looks a little bit like Francis Bacon's. 👀 Tidy once you've won that €1000!: https://t.co/f0VD3SyDR2 https://t.co/qTNtDHWF2A
Paperback, 2023
$30.95$15.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poems
Maria Rilke
❛ It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke was born #OTD in 1875. https://t.co/jbWmZJF528
Paperback, 2014
$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
Moshfegh's first novel, Eileen, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. ‘Ottessa is one of our newest, most dazzling, daring and outrageous voices in literature’ Vogue
Paperback, 2016
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Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Author John Steinbeck died #OTD in 1968 - though best remembered for his novel 'Of Mice and Men', an auction catalogue of things sold after his death provides a fun insight into his life: his baby hair, holiday snaps, love letters and a cushion reading 'sex cures arthritis'. 💌 https://t.co/ymk3Bico9d
Paperback, 1993
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sudden Traveler: Stories
Sarah Hall
In case you missed it – this morning we announced the WINNERS of this year's Moth Short Story Prize, chosen by Sarah Hall. Here's everything you need to know about the three winning stories by Lara Saunders, Louise Miller and Joe Richards 👇👇👇 https://t.co/7vQZqOuUOl https://t.co/dlikxDF4oo
Paperback, 2020
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Empire of Eden
Tom Laichas
And completing our shortlist is Tom Laichas with 'Travel Advisory'. Laichas is author of Three Hundred Streets of Venice California, Sixty-Three Photographs from the End of a War and Empire of Eden. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt, Jabberwock, Stand and elsewhere.
Paperback, 2019
$12.46$6.23 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poems
Rainer Maria Rilke
❛ It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke was born #OTD in 1875. https://t.co/jbWmZJF528
Paperback, 2019
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The Wolf Border
Sarah Hall
Saunders is a creative writing graduate and social worker living and writing on Peramangk land in South Australia. ‘I have been a huge fan of Sarah Hall since I read The Wolf Border a few years ago, so to know that she read and liked a story of mine is deeply touching...'
Paperback, 2016
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