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Book Cover for: I Do Everything I'm Told, Megan Fernandes

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

In Megan Fernandes’s collection “I Do Everything I’m Told,” geography paradoxically points to places off the map, not to real life but to potential life, to places that can be inhabited only in the poems. https://t.co/eGzREKUw1T

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Good Boys: Poems, Megan Fernandes

Good Boys: Poems

Megan Fernandes
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

In Megan Fernandes’s collection “I Do Everything I’m Told,” geography paradoxically points to places off the map, not to real life but to potential life, to places that can be inhabited only in the poems. https://t.co/eGzREKUw1T

Paperback, 2020

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Siddhartha: A Novel(classics illustrated), Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha: A Novel(classics illustrated)

Hermann Hesse
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

On Hermann Hesse’s birthday, revisit Adam Kirsch on how the beloved author of “Siddhartha” embraces failure and makes it his inspiration. https://t.co/mn3VP7glVb

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Book Cover for: Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan, Darryl Pinckney

Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

Darryl Pinckney
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, “Come Back in September,” Darryl Pinckney remembers the writer and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, who showed him that a life of writing was possible. https://t.co/aW0enTbkIj

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Fraud, Zadie Smith

The Fraud

Zadie Smith
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

When Zadie Smith stumbled upon an extraordinary story from the 19th century, it felt like a once-in-a-lifetime gift from the universe. But it was eight years before she sat down to write her new historical novel, “The Fraud.” https://t.co/Heqm3VV6CM

Hardcover, 2023

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

Kurt Vonnegut
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

A collection of letters that Kurt Vonnegut wrote to his future wife, Jane Marie Cox, in the twilight of his teens and in his early 20s. https://t.co/Z3Gc5k66xo

Paperback, 2014

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Salt of the Universe: Praise, Songs, and Improvisations, Amy Leach

The Salt of the Universe: Praise, Songs, and Improvisations

Amy Leach
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

With an off-kilter tone and a dexterous, irreverent attitude toward religious fervor, Leach explores a range of topics, including vegetarianism, contemporary Christian music, and teaching English classes in Paraguay. Many of the chapters are attuned to the beauty of the natural world.

Hardcover, 2024

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nothing Special, Nicole Flattery

Nothing Special

Nicole Flattery
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

In her début novel, “Nothing Special,” the Irish writer Nicole Flattery appropriates and inverts Andy Warhol’s own novel ambitions. https://t.co/kmXBuZXneu

Hardcover, 2023

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder

Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

Nancy Livingston is the last surviving member of the cast of “Sunset Boulevard.” Her memoir spins tales of (director) Billy Wilder, (husband) Alan Jay Lerner, and (pursuer) Howard Hughes. https://t.co/xmxtPN3AX3

Paperback, 1999

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi
The New YorkerThe New Yorker

In his 2019 book “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description. https://t.co/FPkL7XDaIB

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book