The New Yorker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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I Do Everything I'm Told
Megan FernandesThe New YorkerIn 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 bookGood Boys: Poems
Megan FernandesThe New YorkerIn 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 bookSiddhartha: A Novel(classics illustrated)
Hermann HesseThe New YorkerOn 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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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Darryl PinckneyThe New YorkerIn 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 bookThe Fraud
Zadie SmithThe New YorkerWhen 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 bookKurt Vonnegut: Letters
Kurt VonnegutThe New YorkerA 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 bookThe Salt of the Universe: Praise, Songs, and Improvisations
Amy LeachThe New YorkerWith 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 bookNothing Special
Nicole FlatteryThe New YorkerIn 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 bookSunset Boulevard
Billy WilderThe New YorkerNancy 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 bookHow to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. KendiThe New YorkerIn 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